Town-hall Discussion ( 4-6pm)
The panel focuses on the impact of what experts are calling a “textbook case of genocide” on Palestinian children and childhood. Panellists will explore how young Palestinians are both targeted and used by political Zionism to build, maintain, and justify the Israeli ethno-nation. Panelists will bring their expertise on childhood to discuss the implications for solidarity – both how the supposedly ultra deserving figure of the child as victim falls apart when it comes to Palestine and the problematics of tying solidarity movements to accounts of the exceptionalism of childhood.
This event is the fourth in a series of town-hall discussions, co-organised by UCL Middle East Research Centre, SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies, LSE Human Rights and King's College London.
Event image credit: Britt Permien.
Letters For Palestinian Childhoods Exhibition (6-7pm)
An exhibition of letters, poems and artwork dedicated to the children of Palestine. More details on the “Letters For Palestinian Childhoods” initiative can be found Online and on Instagram.
This event will take place in-person and will be recorded. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
“Except Palestine” town-hall series
First panel - Except Palestine: Law, Humanity and Politics , November 9, 2023, organised by the LSE Human Rights and LSE Law
Second panel - Except Palestine: Solidarity, Rights and Activism, November 29, 2023 organised by SOAS Centre for Palestine Studies.
Third panel -Conflict, Development and De-Development, January 31, 2024, organised by King's College London.
Fourth panel - Except Palestine: Gaza, the Global Graveyard of Children and the Politics of Unchilding, February 7, 2024 organised by UCL Middle East Centre and Critical Childhood Studies Research Group