Gaza Tribunal Sarajevo Public Assembly Welcome Speeches
Richard Falk – Chairman of the Gaza Tribunal
Prof. Dr. Ahmet Yıldırım – Rector of International University of Sarajevo
Chamber 1: International Law
Co-Chairs Introduce Proceedings
Michael Lynk
Susan Akram
Panel 1: Nakba and Colonial Genocide
Nimer Sultany – Genocide
Victor Kattan – Apartheid and Self-Determination
3 Written witness testimonies
Panel 2: Patterns of Genocide
Lisa Hajjar – Political Prisoners
Farah Imad – Right to Food
Pre-recorded testimony – Focal point engineer from Gaza (Arab Group for the Protection of Nature)
Panel 3: Specific Acts
Maryam Jamshidi – Protection of Civilians
Wesam Ahmad – Attacks on Healthcare Infrastructure
Dr. Thaer Ahmad and Dr. Mimi Syed – Witness Testimony: Voluunteer Physician in Gaza
Heidi Matthews – Reproductive Systems
Expert Talk
Raji Sourani
Chamber 2: International Relations & World Order
Co-Chairs Introduce Proceedings
Richard Falk and Craig Mokhiber
Panel 1 : Political Realism and Contemporary Geopolitics
Richard Falk and Paulina Chan- Political Realism Revisited and the Law of Peoples Past Global Response to Genocide: A Record of Failure
Panel 2: Political Economy of Genocide and Obliteration of Gaza
Lara Eborno- Nakba, Liberation, and Decolonization Through a Political Economic Lens: from 1948 to the Gaza Genocide
Hilal Elver- Enforcement and the Accountability Gap: The Crime of Starvation
David Whyte- Ecocidal Violence in Gaza: Is it Part of Genocide or a Separate International Crime?
Penny Green- Pursuing Physically Disabling Combat Tactics
Expert Testimonies
Fatma Benli Yalçın
Mazin Qumsiyeh
Sami Al Arian
Azzam Tamimi
Noura Erakat
Panel 3: Deficiencies of the Formal International - Normative Order
Craig Mokhiber- The International System in the Age of Genocide
Phyllis Bennis- Looking Ahead to Enforcement
Michelle Burgis Kasthala-Working with and Beyond International Courts / Peoples’ Tribunals as Alternative Justice Sites: Assessing the Role of Civil Society
Panel 4: GTP Conception of an Alternative Jurisprudential - Legal Paradigm
Gianni Tognoni- Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal
Panel 5: Activism of Civil Society and Social Movements
Ramzy Baroud- Sumud and Self-Determination: The Enduring Legacy Against Erasure
Phyllis Bennis- Jewish Voices for Peace and the Ceasefire Campaign
Haidar Eid- Learning from South Africa’s Anti-Apartheid Struggle
Asmer Safi- Criminalization of Student Protests
Chamber 3: History, Ethics & Philosophy
Co-Chairs introduce proceedings
Cemil Aydın
Panel 2: Exposing Dehumanization
Jeff Halper- Challenging the Matrix of Control/House Demolitions
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian- An Ontological Abortion of the Enfleshed Genocidal State: The Ongoing Genocidal Nakba in Gaza
Henrietta Zeffert- The Unmaking of the Palestinian Home
Panel 3: Resisting Genocide
Andy Simmons and Michelle Burgis -Kasthala- The GT Archive
Abed Takriti- Palestinian Resistance
Akram Lilja- Archaeology and the Erasure of Palestine
Omar Bargouti- Expert testimony: The BDS Campaign
Panel 4: Civilization and Weaponizing the Holocaust
and Anti-Semitism
Raz Segal- Holocaust Exceptionalism and Israel’s Genocide
Cemil Aydin- Ethnic Cleansing Through Civilisational Narratives
Maya Wind- he Role of the Israeli Academy in Genocide Production
Media Roundtable
Lauren Booth
Lubna Masarwa
Kenize Mourad
Peter Oborne
Assal Rad
Panel 5: Cultures of Erasure
Ussama Makdisi- Politics of Palestine Exception
Saree Makdisi- Zionist Culture and Genocide Denial