Please join us on Wednesday 19 November 2025 for an important webinar on Genocide in the Age of Economic and Physical Coercion, to examine how powerful actors use economic and physical coercion to block accountability for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
The United States has imposed unilateral sanctions on the International Criminal Court, UN rapporteurs, and Palestinian human‑rights groups, and has threatened aid freezes and tariffs on states like South Africa that pursue legal and policy action. Simultaneously, threats of continued or escalated violence have been wielded in ceasefire talks.
By revisiting anti‑colonial histories of sanctions and decolonization, the discussion seeks ways to counter state‑driven economic, diplomatic, and force‑based pressures, promote multilateral sanctions and sanction measures on Israel, and advance transnational justice in Gaza in line with international obligations.
Speakers:
- Jessica Whyte – Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia
- Shahd Hammouri – Lecturer at the University of Kent, England
- Maryam Jamshidi – Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School, US
- Abdoulaye Ndiaye – Assistant Professor, New York University, Stern School of Business, US
- Abdelghany el Sayed – Associate Lecturer, American University of Cairo, Egypt
- Jeena Shah – Associate Professor of Law at CUNY School of Law, US
Wednesday 19 November 2025
—11am Colorado
—1pm New York
—6pm London
—8pm Cairo/Jerusalem
—5am (Thursday 20 November) Sydney
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UZVIt1d4RJ2aF-wqntLafw
This event is co-hosted by TWAILR along with the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy, Law for Palestine, and the Transnational Institute.
