Ilan Pappé is an expatriate Israeli historian and socialist activist. He is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, director of the university’s European Centre for Palestine Studies, and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies.
Dr. Heba Yazbak –Speaker
Heba Yazbak is an Israeli Arab politician, sociologist and academic. She studied for a MA in social work and was a PhD student at Tel Aviv University, where she also worked as a researcher and lecturer on sociology, focusing on Palestinian society and gender issues. She served as a member of the Knesset for Balad and the Joint List from 2019 to 2021.
Dr. Rona Sela –Speaker
Dr. Rona Sela is a curator, researcher and film-director focusing on visual aspects of Israeli Zionist/Israeli settler-colonialism, its oppressive mechanism and on knowledge production and erasure. She also deals with methods to crack colonial patterns, such as building post/decolonial archives, or through visual activism by civil society agents.
Dr. Salman Abu Sitta –Speaker
Salman Abu Sitta is a Palestinian researcher. He is most known for mapping Palestine and developing a practical plan for implementing the right of return of Palestinian refugees.