Falasteen Hurra Hurra: On-the-Ground in the Occupied West Bank

Farah and Leda (International Solidarity Movement)

Wednesday 10 December 2025, 1pm

Rendall Seminar Room 9

This seminar features international volunteers supporting Palestinian communities that are resisting Zionist settler colonialism and ethnic cleansing at the hands of the Israeli state. Drawing from on-the-ground civil protection with families experiencing home demolitions and forced evictions, the talk details the socio-spatial dimensions of Israel's illegal occupation of the West Bank. Speakers also offer insight into how militarised repression affects mental health and material wellbeing. The discussion situates the dynamics above within a wider continuum of structural violence against Palestine, including the Gaza genocide, to illustrate how dehumanisation and domination are coordinated across time and space, i.e., histories and geographies. In addition, the speakers reflect upon Palestinian steadfastness, hope, and reparative world-making in the face of the silence, cynicism, and failures of complicit universities, international law, and liberal humanitarianism.

As part of "Critical Theory, Critical Practice" Seminar Series of the Power, Space, and Cultural Change (PSCC) Research Cluster