Gaza War Chronicles: Genocide and Justice -- Featuring: Mouin Rabbani, Moderator: Bassam Haddad

Gaza in Context: A Collaborative Teach-In Series - Session 26

Gaza War Chronicles:
Genocide and Justice
Featuring:
Mouin Rabbani
Moderator:
Bassam Haddad
Thursday, 4 April 2024
1:00 PM EST | 7:00 PM Palestine
Teach-In Session 26
Gaza War Chronicles continues to examine the background and context of the war on Gaza. Mouin Rabbani, the host of the incisive Connections podcast and author of the Ongoing War on Gaza Quick Thoughts commentary, will address the war’s local, regional, and international dimensions and repercussions with emphasis on the complicity of the United States. Prominent themes that have emerged or re-emerged, such as recent ICJ provisional measures and Israel’s starvation tactics and wanton killing will be discussed.
Gaza in Context Collaborative Teach-In Series
We are together experiencing a catastrophic unfolding of history as Gaza endures a massive invasion of potentially genocidal proportions. This follows an incessant bombardment of a population increasingly bereft of the necessities of living in response to the Hamas attack in Israel on October 7. The context within which this takes place includes a well-coordinated campaign of misinformation and the unearthing of a multitude of essentialist and reductionist discursive tropes that dehumanize Palestinians as the culprits, despite a context of structural subjugation and Apartheid, now a matter of consensus in the human rights movement.
The co-organizers below are convening weekly teach-ins and conversations on a host of issues that introduce our common university communities, educators, researchers, and students to the history and present of Gaza, in context.
Co-Organizers: Arab Studies Institute, Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, George Mason University’s Middle East and Islamic Studies Program, Rutgers Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Birzeit University Museum, Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Brown University’s Center for Middle East Studies, University of Chicago’s Center for Contemporary Theory, Brown University’s New Directions in Palestinian Studies, Georgetown University’s Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies, Georgetown University-Qatar, American University of Cairo’s Alternative Policy Studies, Middle East Studies Association’s Global Academy, University of Chicago’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, CUNY’s Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center, University of Illinois Chicago’s Arab american cultural Center, George Mason University’s AbuSulayman’s Center for Global Islamic Studies, University of Illinois Chicago’s Critical Middle East Studies Working Group, George Washington University’s Institute for Middle East Studies, Columbia University’s Center for Palestine Studies, New York University’s Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies
Featuring
Mouin Rabbani is a researcher, analyst, and commentator specialising in Palestinian affairs, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the contemporary Middle East. He has among other positions previously served as Principal Political Affairs Officer with the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Head of Middle East with the Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation, and Senior Middle East Analyst and Special Advisor on Israel-Palestine with the International Crisis Group. Rabbani is Co-Editor of Jadaliyya, where he also hosts the Connections podcast and edits its Quick Thoughts feature, Managing Editor and Associate Editor of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, and a Contributing Editor of Middle East Report. He is Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (CHS) and at Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN). A graduate of Tufts University and Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS), Rabbani has published, presented and commented widely on Middle East issues, including for most major print, television and digital media.
Bassam Haddad (Moderator) is Founding Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program and Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford University Press, 2011) and co-editor of A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2021). Bassam is Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine and Executive Director of the Arab Studies Institute. He serves as Founding Editor of the Arab Studies Journal and the Knowledge Production Project. He is co-producer/director of the award-winning documentary film, About Baghdad, and director of the acclaimed series Arabs and Terrorism. Bassam serves on the Board of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences and is Executive Producer …

[@Ilovedemocratie]

I really appreciate Mouin Rabbani. He is a man of substance.

[@PalOStein]

Yes, but mercifully, not in the same way as Hunter Biden.

[@abigailpew8383]

Right??? What a king

[@PalOStein]

@@abigailpew8383 Why are you equating him with family dictators if you love him so much?

[@minimega10]

@@PalOSteinyou really thought you were doing something here…you just look sad man

[@PalOStein]

@@minimega10 Go watch more Sam Seder, phoquetard.

[@oumerseid8180]

Calm as it gets & gliding through such a messy & emotional topic with absolute authority. Mouin is full of substance

[@flailgracefully]

It is so admirable how he so calmly deals with these issues. It is awe inspiring every time.

[@jylyhughes5085]

Thank you Mouin and Bassam. Free Palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@Ded_Silu]

I absolutely appreciate Mouin’s calm demeanor!

[@fun_ghoul]

I'm indifferent as a viewer, but also, jealous.

[@janetcox4873]

Excellent guest -- Mouin Rabbani is spot on with insightful, factual positions he presents with indisputable elegance.

[@Jean-rg4sp]

He has a massive head which might mean he has a big brain.

[@OllytheOl]

​@@Jean-rg4sp I take it you have a tiny head.

[@janetcox4873]

@@Jean-rg4sp That reply is not elegant, lol. Maybe you can help him fix his camera set up for a wider shot.

[@HOGH22]

Long and strong live Gaza!✌💯 Long and strong live Palestine! ✌💯

[@keithzandes-1991]

Has zionist israel ceased to have a right to exist?😮 How long until tel aviv and all israeli hospitals and settlements are rubblized?😮 Is Nutty-yahoo the anti-christ?😮

[@fun_ghoul]

@@keithzandes-1991 The Zionist occupation never had a "right to exist". Period.

[@skywalktriceiam]

Thank you for providing outstanding content ✌🏼💜

[@RSmytheFreed]

Mouin Rabbani consistently delivers well-researched analysis in a calm, rational manner. I search for every one of his interviews and always learn from him. Thank you!

[@blisse2182]

I feel the same!

[@JohnOGradyArtist]

Mr Rabbani is always clear, measured and insightful such a great guest, thank you

[@bliss448]

I think it's outrageous that the court still hasn't announced a guilty verdict when the whole planet knows what's going on. They should not be allowed to continue to drag their feet.

[@Jean-rg4sp]

*Taking their time is typical of the International Court of Justice. This means each member state of the UN must take responsibility for their governments' response to the plausibility of genocide by the Israelis.*

Always Mouin so clear and detailed, connecting the right dots, elucidating a big panorama. Thanks a lot. Bassam is a great Podcaster. Both so full of warm humanity. Greets from Berlin.

[@Hermothersdaughter665]

welcome back

[@theresabarzee1463]

Thank you! Fabulous work. Such a gift.

[@filippomilani2746]

Thank you Mouin Rabbani for your expertise and for the calmness with which you exercise it; 👍

[@kmayet]

Excellent discussion. Thank you both.

[@sallyjones3377]

Hello Lads❤

[@user-ce9sw6dx6k]

Mouin Rabbani is always AMAZING!

[@etrasorras1]

Thank you so much 🙏

[@adechapman.1132]

Mouin is in my top 5 of world class debaters. I dont think I have seen him ever get embarrassed at his words. He chooses his words very carefully! Subscribed !

[@Jean-rg4sp]

*I suspect my comments have been made invisible because I get no alerts that anyone has replied to anything I write. Not one alert in months. Nevertheless I do want to say that Mouin Rabbani is so encouraging to many of us who hear him saying, in a better way than we ourselves can, exactly what we are thinking but only a handful of KZbin whose owners and guests have reached the same conclusions about United States-backed Israel and how it is unquestionably a scofflaw state. I live in Spain and our president (prime minister) Pedro Sánchez is expected to recognize the state of Palestine later this month. This encourages myself and many of us who like belonging to a country willing to be out-of-step with NATO/OTAN.*

[@fun_ghoul]

Your comment is visible, but FYI: Notifications can be fxxked with, too. I often see replies to me for which I was never notified.

[@SaraSara-ti6ex]

Mouin is so eloquent and informative

[@Stylelss]

Thank you Mr Rabbani. .

[@evanfirebrand]

Invaluable discussion.

[@AnnieRegret]

❤❤❤

[@PalOStein]

Sounds like an appropriately sized dog to guard a home. Good on ya, lad. Cheers from Overbrook.

[@PalOStein]

Unless you're talking about the Chinese dumpling, Bassam, the second syllable in "wanton" gets the Schwa sound. With love, as always... ❤

[@SaraSara-ti6ex]

Freedom to Palestine!!!

[@SaraSara-ti6ex]

World’s humanity is Palestine 🇵🇸💔

[@SaraSara-ti6ex]

The system is broken

[@elizabethferrari3647]

Intonation is Hamas.

[@PalOStein]

Do you condemn intonation???

[@kevinyin2663]

@@PalOSteinlololol

[@serenevalor]

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@isync0025]

Whose dog was that?? and for lengthy period, very disturbing and improper!

[@Grandhotel256]

Oh please

[@Grandhotel256]

Why the guy is a volunteer he’s not paid this is not his job. He’s doing it so you can watch for free. I’m happy the dog has home ..

[@Chicag343]

It's always great to hear mouin thank you mouin for brilliant analysis and thank you bassam

[@faribasolaimanzadeh6289]

What’s up with the dog is barking it’s very annoying

[@skywalktriceiam]

the dog is saying hi to you😹 If you spell doG backwards, you will see who sent him or her😉🐶 Seriously though, considering the topic... ☮💜

[@PalOStein]

It's a Zionist saying, "Do you condemn Khhhhamasss?"

[@blisse2182]

Awkward pause... Are you done? 😂

[@Chicag343]

ان الظلم اذا دام دمر