The Tribunal
People’s tribunals are forums of justice set up by social justice movements and organizations to charge those in power with crimes against humanity. They are an opportunity to speak truth to power—in ways that are determined by the people.
This course aims to critically engage the people with the historical and contemporary complicity in genocide and ongoing Nakba as articulated through the charges against the UC Regents, the leadership of the University of California, and state officials. The outcomes include a comprehensive understanding of the charges of genocide and ongoing Nakba, how the UC is complicit as well as fostering a commitment to accountability and justice.
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Palestine 101
This film looks at Palestine from a different angle. It hears from historians and witness accounts, and features archive documents that show Palestine as a thriving province of Greater Syria and the Ottoman Empire at the dawn of the 20th century.
This film looks at Palestine from a different angle. It hears from historians and witness accounts, and features archive documents that show Palestine as a thriving province of Greater Syria and the Ottoman Empire at the dawn of the 20th century.
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Learn about the UC Regents
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Why Do We Need a People's Tribunal?
An introduction to the need for a People’s Tribunal from Dr. Lisa Hajjar, law and torture expert.
An introduction to the need for a People’s Tribunal from Dr. Lisa Hajjar, law and torture expert.
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Introduction to the Tribunal by Jess Ghannam
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Introduction to the Tribunal by Susan Abulhawa
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Introduction to the Tribunal by Jalil A. Muntaqim
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Introduction to the Tribunal by Corrina Gould
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The Nakba Explained
May 15th is the day commemorating the Nakba—a term used to denote Palestinians’ forced expulsion from their homeland by Zionist forces in 1948.
May 15th is the day commemorating the Nakba—a term used to denote Palestinians’ forced expulsion from their homeland by Zionist forces in 1948.
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Nakba as a Legal Concept
“Meaning “Catastrophe” in Arabic, the term “al-Nakba” (النكبة) is often used to refer to the ruinous process of establishing the State of Israel in Palestine. But the Nakba has undergone a metamorphosis; it has evolved from a historical calamity into a brutally sophisticated structure of oppression.
“Meaning “Catastrophe” in Arabic, the term “al-Nakba” (النكبة) is often used to refer to the ruinous process of establishing the State of Israel in Palestine. But the Nakba has undergone a metamorphosis; it has evolved from a historical calamity into a brutally sophisticated structure of oppression.
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" A Racist, Criminal Project"
Palestinians across the globe are marking the 76th anniversary of the Nakba — which means "catastrophe" in Arabic — when those establishing the state of Israel violently expelled over 700,000 Palestinians. Palestinian historian Abdel Razzaq Takriti says closer to 900,000 Palestinians were forced out or massacred during Israel's founding, which is being celebrated inside Israel with calls to ethnically cleanse and settle the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.
Palestinians across the globe are marking the 76th anniversary of the Nakba — which means "catastrophe" in Arabic — when those establishing the state of Israel violently expelled over 700,000 Palestinians. Palestinian historian Abdel Razzaq Takriti says closer to 900,000 Palestinians were forced out or massacred during Israel's founding, which is being celebrated inside Israel with calls to ethnically cleanse and settle the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.
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Investments.
UC leadership has materially contributed to the crimes of Nakba and genocide of Palestinians through its financial ties to Israel and its unethical investment in the war industries, surveillance technologies, and other corporate instruments of violence.
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UC leadership has materially contributed to the crimes of Nakba and genocide of Palestinians through its financial ties to Israel and its unethical investment in the war industries, surveillance technologies, and other corporate instruments of violence.
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Academic Complicity.
Through institutional cooperations and agreements with complicit Israeli universities, the UC materially contributes to and facilitates the ongoing Nakba and genocide in Palestine.
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Through institutional cooperations and agreements with complicit Israeli universities, the UC materially contributes to and facilitates the ongoing Nakba and genocide in Palestine.
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Military Research.
By facilitating research funded by the U.S. government and corporate war industries, UC leadership has played a central role in imperialist devastation, human suffering, and environmental ruin around the globe, including in historic Palestine.
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By facilitating research funded by the U.S. government and corporate war industries, UC leadership has played a central role in imperialist devastation, human suffering, and environmental ruin around the globe, including in historic Palestine.
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Donor Influence.
UC leadership has accepted billions of dollars from Zionist institutional and individual donors, including some that have funded organizations that smear, harass, and threaten UC students, staff, and faculty who have spoken out against the genocide, thereby chilling academic freedom and free speech in the university and contributing to the epistemological erasure and social death of the Palestinian people.
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UC leadership has accepted billions of dollars from Zionist institutional and individual donors, including some that have funded organizations that smear, harass, and threaten UC students, staff, and faculty who have spoken out against the genocide, thereby chilling academic freedom and free speech in the university and contributing to the epistemological erasure and social death of the Palestinian people.
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Institutionalized Zionism.
By upholding and defending Zionism, UC leaders have normalized the settler-colonial, apartheid, genocidal Israeli state, the root cause of Nakba and genocide. At the same time, they have perpetrated anti-Palestinian racism and weaponized false claims of antisemitism in order to stifle protest, criticism, and study of the genocide.
By upholding and defending Zionism, UC leaders have normalized the settler-colonial, apartheid, genocidal Israeli state, the root cause of Nakba and genocide. At the same time, they have perpetrated anti-Palestinian racism and weaponized false claims of antisemitism in order to stifle protest, criticism, and study of the genocide.
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Political Repression.
UC leaders have waged a campaign of persecution, repression, and intimidation against students, workers, and community members in order to silence political dissent in the face of genocide and the ongoing Nakba while approving the purchase of military-grade weapons to further such oppression.
UC leaders have waged a campaign of persecution, repression, and intimidation against students, workers, and community members in order to silence political dissent in the face of genocide and the ongoing Nakba while approving the purchase of military-grade weapons to further such oppression.
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Complicity in Silence.
UC leadership has remained silent in the face of scholasticide, ecocide, the murder of healthcare and humanitarian workers, and the destruction of the healthcare system in Gaza, unwilling to lend its considerable resources to protecting and rebuilding the Palestinian educational and healthcare infrastructure and supporting scholars, students, and healthcare workers impacted by genocide and ongoing Nakba.
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UC leadership has remained silent in the face of scholasticide, ecocide, the murder of healthcare and humanitarian workers, and the destruction of the healthcare system in Gaza, unwilling to lend its considerable resources to protecting and rebuilding the Palestinian educational and healthcare infrastructure and supporting scholars, students, and healthcare workers impacted by genocide and ongoing Nakba.
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Educate Yourself
This course aims to educate the people of California and across the US on how those who are supposed to provide public education with public dollars for the good of the public are instead complicit in the ongoing Nakba and genocide, spending public dollars on apartheid, curtailment of academic freedom, violence against students; and serving as enrichment schemes for the military industrial complex.
