Anatomy of Genocide in Gaza
The Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, in partnership with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, the African Studies Program, Georgetown University Qatar, and the Institute for the Study of International Migration, is hosting Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, for a talk titled “Anatomy of Genocide in Gaza” on October 28th at Noon in Copley Formal Lounge.
Description
By the time that the UN report “Anatomy of Genocide in Gaza” was published – after five months of military operations – Israel had destroyed Gaza. Over 30,000 Palestinians had been killed, including more than 13,000 children. Over 12,000 more were presumed dead and 71,000 injured, many with life-changing mutilations. Seventy percent of residential areas were also destroyed. Eighty percent of the whole population was forcibly displaced. Now, one year since Israel’s onslaught began, with strong U.S. support, the devastation in Gaza has significantly expanded, confirming Masha Gessen’s haunting prediction that the “Gaza ghetto is being liquidated.”
In her report, through analyzing patterns of violence, officials’ statements, and Israeli government policies in Gaza, Francesca Albanese concludes there are reasonable grounds to believe the State of Israel is guilty of the crime of genocide. One of her key findings is that Israel’s executive and military leadership have intentionally distorted jus in bello principles, subverting their protective functions, in an attempt to legitimize genocidal violence against the Palestinian people.
Join us for a critical and timely discussion with Francesca Albanese.
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Speaker
Francesca Albanese is an Affiliate Scholar at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University, and a Senior Advisor on Migration and Forced Displacement for the think tank Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development (ARDD), where she co-founded the Global Network on the Question of Palestine (GNQP), a coalition of renowned professional and scholars engaged in/on Israel/Palestine. She has published widely on the legal situation in Israel/Palestine; her latest book, Palestinian Refugees in International Law (Oxford University Press, 2020), offers a comprehensive legal analysis of the situation of Palestinian refugees from its origins to modern-day reality. She regularly teaches and lectures on International Law and Forced Displacement in European and Arab universities, and speaks frequently at conferences and public events on the legal situation of Palestine. She worked for a decade as a human rights expert for the United Nations, including the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees. In these capacities, she advised the UN, governments, and civil society across the Middle East, North Africa, and the Asia Pacific, on the enforcement of human rights norms, especially for vulnerable groups including refugees and migrants. She holds a Law Degree (with honors) from the University of Pisa and an LLM in Human Rights from the University of London, SOAS.
Moderator:
Fida Adely is an Associate Professor at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and the Clovis and Hala Salaam Maksoud Chair in Arab Studies. She is also currently serving as the Director of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown. Dr. Adely is an anthropologist and her research interests include education, labor, development, and gender in the Arab world. Her primary research site has been Jordan, although she teaches and writes about the Arab world more broadly. Dr. Adely received her PhD in 2007 at Teachers College (Columbia University) in Comparative Education and Anthropology. She was previously a lecturer at Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs, as well as a visiting professor in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at Teachers College/Columbia University.