An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Toufic Haddad (IASH-SSPS Fellow, 2025)
The Gaza Genocide in Global Context
The Gaza genocide is a seismic event in Palestinian, Israeli, Middle Eastern and global history. While scholarly consensus around the genocidal nature of Israel’s assault in Gaza has already been formed, the global community of states and the rules-based international order have so far proven themselvesunwilling or unable to intervene to stop it. In doing so, the system itself is undermined by some of the main actors that built this system, underscoring significant legal, political and moral implications for these institutions and their members, now and in the future.
This research attempts to extract the Gaza genocide from a specific Israeli-Palestinian conflict dynamic,and to broaden the analytic parameters by which it is traditionally assessed. By exploring global entanglements to unfolding events, it aims to parse and assess the international drivers and dynamics shaping the genocide’s genesis, character and perpetuation, as well as the international community’s response to it. By exploring these aspects through legal, racial, and political economic lenses, and reading these in dialogue with other historic global phenomenon including the rise of multipolarity and post-neoliberal state economies, international contributions to the genocide become clarified.
This seminar aims to present broad arguments of this research endeavour - which currently stands at a relatively early stage - together with some of the more specific lines of inquiry it hopes to pursue. It thus invites the insights of the IASH, SSPS and broader UoE community to contribute to its theoretical and analytical shaping.
Please join in-person, or click the link below to join the webinar:
https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/81113670095
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