Gaza Tribunal: Program for Public Sessions, 26-29 May 2025
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25 May 2025 – The Gaza Tribunal will hold its first public session, starting today, 26 May, 10:00 AM GMT; it presents extensive reports on various dimensions of the Gaza Ordeal endured for more than 19 months by the population of the Gaza Strip, killing more than 50,000, wounding more than 100,000, and traumatizing the entire population estimated at 2.3 million on October 7, 2023. As this meeting gets underway the surviving Palestinian population is being subjected to tactics of deliberate denial of food and medical supplies, and Israel leaders and public opinion are calling for extermination tactics as supplemented by forced exclusion–ethnic cleansing–not only in Gaza, but also in the West Bank. The Gaza Tribunal was formed as a civil society initiative after it became clear that neither the UN nor its member states possessed the political will or operational capabilities to stop the killing and devastation. Its intention is lend legitimacy to nonviolent civil society solidarity initiatives in support of the Palestinian struggle for basic rights. Links are available to access the streaming of the Sarajevo proceedings. <youtube.com/@gazatribunal>]
GAZA TRIBUNAL
Sarajevo Meetings – May 26-29, 2025
International University of Sarajevo
09:00 – 09:30
Welcome Speeches
CHAMBER 1: INTERNATIONAL LAW
MONDAY, MAY 26
09:30 – 10:00
Chamber 1 Co-Chairs Introduce Proceedings
Michael Lynk, Susan Akram
10:00 – 12:00
Panel 1: Nakba and Colonial Genocide
Genocide – Nimer Sultany
Apartheid and Self-Determination – Victor Kattan
Pre-recorded witness testimony – Al Haq field researcher
Pre-recorded witness testimony – Ahmed Abu Artema
Written witness testimony – Badil / read (3 testimonies)
Q&A and Discussion
12:00 – 13:00
Lunch
13:00 – 14:45
Panel 2: Patterns of Genocide
Political Prisoners – Lisa Hajjar
Right to Food – Farah Imad
Reproductive Systems – Heidi Matthews
Pre-recorded prisoner witness testimonies – Addameer
Pre-recorded testimony – Focal point engineer from Gaza (Arab Group for the Protection of Nature)
14:45 – 15:00
Coffee Break
15:00 – 16:30
Panel 3: Specific Acts
Protection of Civilians – Maryam Jamshidi
Attacks on Healthcare Infrastructure – Wesam Ahmad on behalf of Al Haq
Witness testimony: Volunteer Physician in Gaza – Dr. Thaer Ahmad
Witness testimony: Volunteer Physician in Gaza – Dr. Mimi Syed
Q&A and Discussion
16:45 – 17:30
Expert Talk
Raji Sourani
CHAMBER 2: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS & WORLD ORDER
TUESDAY, MAY 27
09:00 – 09:30
Chamber 2 Co-Chairs Introduce Proceedings
Richard Falk, Craig Mokhiber
09:30 – 10:00
Panel 1: Political Realism and Contemporary Geopolitics
Political Realism Revisited and the Law of Peoples
Past Global Response to Genocide: A Record of Failure – Richard Falk, Paulina Chan
10:00 – 11:15
Panel 2: Political Economy of Genocide and Obliteration of Gaza
Moderator: Wesam Ahmad
Nakba, Liberation, and Decolonization Through a Political Economic Lens: from 1948 to the Gaza Genocide – Lara Eborno
Enforcement and the Accountability Gap: The Crime of Starvation – Hilal Elver
Ecocidal Violence in Gaza: Is it Part of Genocide or a Separate International Crime? – David Whyte
Pursuing Physically Disabling Combat Tactics – Penny Green
11:15 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30
Expert Testimonies
Mazin Qumsiyeh, Sami Al Arian, Azzam Tamimi, Noura Erakat
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 15:00
Panel 3: Deficiencies of the Formal International Normative Order
Moderator: Lisa Hajjar
The International System in the Age of Genocide – Craig Mokhiber
Looking Ahead to Enforcement – Phyllis Bennis
Working with and Beyond International Courts – Michelle Burgis-Kasthala
15:00 – 15:45
Panel 4: GTP Conception of an Alternative Jurisprudential Legal Paradigm
Moderator: Penny Green
Peoples’ Tribunals as Alternative Justice Sites: Assessing the Role of Civil Society – Michelle Burgis-Kasthala
Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal – Gianni Tognoni
15:45 – 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:15
Panel 5: Activism of Civil Society and Social Movements
Moderator: Wesam Ahmad
Sumud and Self-Determination: The Enduring Legacy Against Erasure – Ramzy Baroud
Jewish Voices for Peace and the Ceasefire Campaign – Phyllis Bennis
Learning from South Africa’s Anti-Apartheid Struggle – Haidar Eid
Criminalization of Student Protests – Asmer Safi
17:15 – 18:00
Discussion
CHAMBER 3: HISTORY, SOCIOLOGY, ETHICS & PHILOSOPHY
WEDNESDAY, MAY 28
09:00 – 09:30
Chamber 3 Co-Chairs introduce proceedings
Penny Green, Cemil Aydin
09:30 – 10:30
Panel 1: Understanding Genocide
Moderator: Lara Elborno
Genocide as State Crime: Understanding It as a Process – Penny Green
Ethical Implications of the Genocide in Gaza – Ayhan Citil
History of Ethnic Cleansing/Genocide – Illan Pappe
10:30 – 11:30
Panel 2: Exposing Dehumanization
Moderator: Cemil Aydin
Challenging the Matrix of Control/House Demolitions – Jeff Halper
An Ontological Abortion of the Enfleshed Genocidal State: The Ongoing Genocidal Nakba in Gaza – Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
The Unmaking of the Palestinian Home – Henrietta Zeffert
11:30 – 11:45
Coffee Break
11:45 – 13:00
Panel 3: Resisting Genocide
Moderator: Thomas MacManus
The GT Archive – Andy Simmons, Michelle Burgis-Kasthala
Palestinian Resistance – Abed Takriti
Archaeology and the Erasure of Palestine – Akram Lilja
Expert testimony: The BDS Campaign – Omar Bargouti
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 15:00
Panel 4: Civilization and Weaponizing the Holocaust and Anti-Semitism
Moderator: Sami Al Arian
Holocaust Exceptionalism and Israel’s Genocide – Raz Segal
Ethnic Cleansing Through Civilisational Narratives – Cemil Aydin
The Role of the Israeli Academy in Genocide Production – Maya Wind
15:00 – 16:15
Media Roundtable
Moderator: Mehmet Karlı
Ezgi Basaran, Victoria Brittain, Lauren Booth, Lubna Masarwa, Kenize Mourad, Peter Oborne, Assal Rad
16:15 – 16:30
Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:15
Panel 5: Cultures of Erasure
Moderator: Wesam Ahmad
Politics of Palestine Exception – Ussama Makdisi
Zionist Culture and Genocide Denial – Saree Makdisi
17:15 – 17:30
Summary of Chamber 3 Report
Penny Green, Cemil Aydın
17:30 – 18:00
Final Discussion of the Sarajevo Declaration
DAY 4
THURSDAY, MAY 29
09:00 – 10:00
Srebrenica/Gaza Special Panel
Moderator: Ahmet Köroğlu
Panelists: Arnesa Buljušmić-Kustura, Harun Halilović, Mustafa Cerić
10:00 – 10:45
Expert Talk
Taha Abdurrahman
10:45 – 11:00
Break
11:00 – 12:00
Presentation of the Sarajevo Declaration of the Gaza Tribunal + Press Conference
PUBLIC ASSEMBLY
May 26-29, 2025
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Prof. Richard Falk is a member of the TRANSCEND Network, Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, Chair of Global Law, Faculty of Law, at Queen Mary University London, Research Associate the Orfalea Center of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Fellow of the Tellus Institute. He directed the project on Global Climate Change, Human Security, and Democracy at UCSB and formerly served as director the North American group in the World Order Models Project. Between 2008 and 2014, Falk served as UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Occupied Palestine. His book, (Re)Imagining Humane Global Governance (2014), proposes a value-oriented assessment of world order and future trends. His most recent books are Power Shift (2016); Revisiting the Vietnam War (2017); On Nuclear Weapons: Denuclearization, Demilitarization and Disarmament (2019); and On Public Imagination: A Political & Ethical Imperative, ed. with Victor Faessel & Michael Curtin (2019). He is the author or coauthor of other books, including Religion and Humane Global Governance (2001), Explorations at the Edge of Time (1993), Revolutionaries and Functionaries (1988), The Promise of World Order (1988), Indefensible Weapons (with Robert Jay Lifton, 1983), A Study of Future Worlds (1975), and This Endangered Planet (1972). His memoir, Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim was published in March 2021 and received an award from Global Policy Institute at Loyala Marymount University as ‘the best book of 2021.’ He has been nominated frequently for the Nobel Peace Prize since 2009.
How interesting and so much needed...there is such an awful situation in Gaza that I do hope the Tribunal will address some important matters to all concerned. Their killing of children is just sickening and must be stopped, like food and medicines must come through of course. How could our Western society just stop functioning because of Israel`s warfare attacks, is my question. HOW and WHY ?