The Faculty of Arts is honoured to present guest speaker Neve Gordon from the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London.
About the talk
In this talk, Neve Gordon will define the Gaza Doctrine — a combination of mass displacement, mass killing, and mass destruction of civilian infrastructure — and illustrate how Israel has interpreted international law to justify the doctrine and to frame Hamas for the crimes it has been committing. He will then describe how the Gaza Doctrine is spreading to other countries in the Middle East, and discuss Europe and Canada’s contribution to the replacement of the post-World War II legal order with a might makes right worldview.
About the speaker
Neve Gordon joined the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London after teaching for seventeen years at Ben-Gurion University in Israel. He is the author of Israel’s Occupation (University of California Press, 2008) and co-author of The Human Right to Dominate (Oxford University Press, 2015), Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire (University of California Press, 2020, published in paperback in 2026 with a new preface and epilogue). He is a Fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences, a panel member of the Gaza Tribunal and a board member of the International State Crime Initiative.
Details and proceedings
Registration is required for in-person and online attendance. For those attending in-person, proof of registration is required at the reception area.
- Doors open: 6:30 p.m.
- Lecture and moderated Q & A: 7:00 to 8:20 p.m.
- Reception for the in-person audience: 8:30 to 9:00 p.m.
Paid visitor parking is available in Lot M across from Federation Hall. More parking information.
This lecture is made possible through the generosity of alumni and friends. We extend sincere appreciation to the donors who contributed to the Foundation for Palestinian Studies Fund.
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