NYU-LSJP Virtual Discussion: Legal Processes of Dispossession in Palestine and Beyond

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Event Description:

Any day now, Mohammed El-Kurd's family and neighbors will likely be forcibly removed from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah. The ongoing process of Palestinian dispossession by the Israeli government will march forward, and a "fair" legal process will be the tool of that dispossession. The courtroom arguments have been made, the appeals have been exhausted, and the lawfare has been waged.

How is legal process used to legitimize injustice? How do a collection of rules and policies, each one perhaps inoffensive to the naive outside observer, aggregate to a project of racist dispossession? How do those processes work and how can we play a role in resisting them in Sheikh Jarrah, in Palestine as a whole, and beyond (including in the U.S., from the Jim Crow era to today)?

Please join NYU-LSJP for a discussion with Mohammed himself as well as Fayrouz Sharqawi, a Jerusalem-based organizer with Grassroots Al-Quds, as we discuss the personal and the political scopes of these events and policies, and invite our audience to make connections to their own legal work.

For more background on the Sheikh Jarrah evictions, please read Mohammed's piece on it in The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/east-jerusalem-settlers/