Speakers
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Christian Appy
Nuclear War; nonviolent activism
Professor of History and Director of the Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Muhannad Ayyash
Gaza, Israel, and the Middle East
Professor of Sociology, Mount Royal University; Policy Analyst, Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network
Huwaida Arraf
Nonviolent activism; Gaza, Israel, and the Middle East
Human/Civil Rights Attorney; Co-Founder, International Solidarity Movement; Organizer, Freedom Flotilla
Hanieh Jodat Barnes
Gaza, Israel, and the Middle East; Nuclear War
Senior Partnership Coordinator at RootsAction, Strategist with Defuse Nuclear War, founder of Progressive Democrats of America Middle East Alliances. Former political strategist for Cori Bush and Nina Turner for Congress. Published author.
Nora Barrows-Friedman
Gaza, Israel, and the Middle East
Staff Writer and Associate Editor, The Electronic Intifada; Author, "In Our Power: Students Organize for Justice in Palestine"
Narges Bajoghli
Gaza, Israel, and the Middle East
Assistant Professor, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University
Omer Bartov
Gaza, Israel, and the Middle East
Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Brown University
Ramzy Baroud
Gaza, Israel, and the Middle East
Editor, Palestine Chronicle; Senior Research Fellow, Center for Islam in Global Affairs; Author of six books on Palestine
Hatem Bazian
Gaza, Israel, and the Middle East
Lecturer, Near Eastern and Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, University of California Berkeley
Mohamed Bazzi
Gaza, Israel, and the Middle East
Director of the Center for Near Eastern Studies and Associate Professor of Journalism, New York University
Peter Beinart
Gaza, Israel, and the Middle East
Editor-at-Large Jewish Currents, Professor of Journalism and Political Science, Newmark School of Journalism, CUNY, Fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace
James Carden
Ukraine, NATO, and the new Cold War
Board Member and Senior Advisor to the American Committee for US-Russia Accord (ACURA)
Estee Chandler
Gaza, Israel, and the Middle East
Founder, Jewish Voice for Peace - Los Angeles; Board Chair, JVP Action; Host/Producer, Middle East in Focus on KPFK
Aviva Chomsky
Nonviolent Activism
Professor of History and Coordinator of Latin American Studies, Salem State University
Marjorie Cohn
GAZA, ISRAEL, AND THE MIDDLE EAST
Professor Emerita, Thomas Jefferson School of Law; Dean, People’s Academy of International Law; Past President, National Lawyers Guild; Bureau Member, International Association of Democratic Lawyers
Emma Claire Foley
Nuclear War
Nuclear weapons policy expert, writer and filmmaker who has spent her career working for nuclear disarmament campaigns. Her commentaries have been featured in Newsweek, NBC, the Guardian and other international news outlets.
Zachary Foster
Gaza, Israel, and the Middle East
Historian of Palestine (Ph.D. Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University); Founder, Palestine Nexus; Senior Law Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Security, Race and Rights.
Adam Horowitz
Gaza, Israel, and the Middle East
Managing Editor, Mondoweiss
Lara Jiramanus
Gaza, Israel, and the Middle East
Physician; Founder of Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity and the Health and Law Immigrant Solidarity Network; Fellow, FXB Center for Health & Human Rights, Harvard University
Peter Kuznick
Nuclear War; Nonviolent activism
Professor of History and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute, American University
Cynthia Lazaroff
NUCLEAR WAR
Founder, Women Transforming Our Nuclear Legacy and NuclearWakeUpCall.Earth
Anatol Lieven
Ukraine, NATO, and the new Cold War
Director, Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
Ussama Makdisi
Gaza, Israel, and the Middle East
Professor of History, May Ziadeh Chair in Palestinian & Arab Studies, and Faculty Director of Program in Palestinian & Arab Studies, University of California Berkeley
Mahmood Mamdani
Gaza, Israel, and the Middle East
Herbert Lehman Professor of Government, Columbia University
David Mandel
Gaza, Israel, and the Middle East
Progressive Journalist and Human Rights Attorney; Advocate and Organizer for Palestinian Rights in the Democratic Party and Jewish Community
Maya Mikdashi
Gaza, Israel, and the Middle East
Associate Professor, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University, Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Rutgers University, Co-founding Editor, Jadaliyya.com
Ilan Pappé
Gaza, Israel, and the Middle East
Professor of History, Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies, University of Exeter; Chair, The Nakba Memorial Foundation; Author, "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine"
Khury Petersen-Smith
Gaza, Israel, and the Middle East
Michael Ratner Middle East Fellow and Co-Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. He writes, speaks, and researches about US support for Israel, Black and Palestinian solidarity, and US militarism in the Middle East and Pacific.
Assal Rad
Gaza, Israel, and the Middle East
Historian of Modern Middle East (PhD History, University of California Irvine). Author, “State of Resistance: Politics, Culture, and Identity in Modern Iran”
Josh Ruebner
Gaza, Israel, and the Middle East
Policy Director, Institute for Middle East Understanding Policy Project; Author, "Israel: Democracy or Apartheid State?"
Linda Sarsour
Gaza, Israel, and the Middle East, Nonviolent Activism
Author, award-winning racial justice and civil rights activist, seasoned community organizer; Co-Founder, UntilFreedom, Women's March, MPower Change
Lila Sharif
Gaza, Israel, and the Middle East; Nonviolent Activism
Assistant Professor, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University
David Speedie
Ukraine, NATO, and the new Cold War
Founder and Former Director, U.S. Global Engagement Program, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs; Founding Member, American Committee for East-West Accord
Norman Solomon
Gaza, Israel, and the Middle East; Nonviolent Activism
National director of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. Author of over a dozen books including 2023’s War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine, with a new afterword about the war on Gaza.
David Swanson
Nonviolent Activism
Co-Founder, Executive Director, and a Board Member of World BEYOND War. David is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. Swanson’s books include War Is A Lie. He is a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and was awarded the 2018 Peace Prize by the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation.
Sandy Tolan
Gaza, Israel, and the Middle East
Professor of Journalism, University of Southern California; Author, "The Lemon Tree" and " Children of the Stone"
Rebecca Vilkomerson
Gaza, Israel, and the Middle East
Co-Director of Funding Freedom; co-author of the 2024 book Solidarity is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing; Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace from 2009-2019
David Vine
Gaza, Israel, and the Middle East
Writer, collaborator, and political anthropologist; Author of the books "The United States of War," "Base Nation," and "Island of Shame."
Kevin Young
NONVIOLENT ACTIVISM
Associate Professor of History, University of Massachusetts Amherst; author of Abolishing Fossil Fuels: Lessons from Movements That Won