Situating Palestine
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Upcoming events
April 20th, 2026
Ecocide, Imperialism and Palestine Liberation
TvA1 00.35
Dr. Hamza Hamouchene, Transnational Institute
12:15-13:30
12:15-13:30
May 18th, 2026
Israel's Gaza Scenario in Lebanon
TvA1 00.02
12:15-13:30
Dr. Brigitte Herremans, Human Rights Centre, Faculty of Law and Criminology, Ghent University
The Dahiya Doctrine: A Boomerang of Destruction
In my contribution, I foreground the notion of a “boomerang of destruction” to describe how Israel’s Dahiya doctrine travels, mutates, and returns. I first show how Israel developed this doctrine during the 2006 war in Lebanon, building on the use of overwhelming force as deterrence, large-scale infrastructural devastation, and the erosion of the distinction between civilians and combatants. I then trace how Israel applied and expanded this logic across its five subsequent wars on Gaza, culminating in what is widely recognized as genocide in Gaza. There, the doctrine took shape as a more systematized model of annihilation and territorial transformation. The “boomerang” lies in the return of this model in the current war against Lebanon, where these practices reappear in an intensified and expanded form.
Crucially, I argue that this boomerang could not have occurred without sustained acquiescence.by governments in the Global North to Israel’s international crimes. The impunity granted to Israel, and the endorsement – if not complicity in some cases – of the annihilation of Gaza, created the conditions in which this doctrine could be redeployed. By paying lip service to international law, governments in the Global North have enabled the repetition and escalation of these strategies. Throughout my presentation, I foreground lived experiences, examining how Palestinian and Lebanese civilians and civil society actors respond to these crimes through justice initiatives, and everyday resistance.
Dr. Brigitte Herremans, Human Rights Centre, Faculty of Law and Criminology, Ghent University
The Dahiya Doctrine: A Boomerang of Destruction
In my contribution, I foreground the notion of a “boomerang of destruction” to describe how Israel’s Dahiya doctrine travels, mutates, and returns. I first show how Israel developed this doctrine during the 2006 war in Lebanon, building on the use of overwhelming force as deterrence, large-scale infrastructural devastation, and the erosion of the distinction between civilians and combatants. I then trace how Israel applied and expanded this logic across its five subsequent wars on Gaza, culminating in what is widely recognized as genocide in Gaza. There, the doctrine took shape as a more systematized model of annihilation and territorial transformation. The “boomerang” lies in the return of this model in the current war against Lebanon, where these practices reappear in an intensified and expanded form.
Crucially, I argue that this boomerang could not have occurred without sustained acquiescence.by governments in the Global North to Israel’s international crimes. The impunity granted to Israel, and the endorsement – if not complicity in some cases – of the annihilation of Gaza, created the conditions in which this doctrine could be redeployed. By paying lip service to international law, governments in the Global North have enabled the repetition and escalation of these strategies. Throughout my presentation, I foreground lived experiences, examining how Palestinian and Lebanese civilians and civil society actors respond to these crimes through justice initiatives, and everyday resistance.
Past events
March 16th, 2026
Reflecting on The Dutch Taskforce on Antisemitism: How Should Universities Respond
TvA1 0.02, Thomas Van Aquino
12.15-13.30
Dr. Jeff Handmaker, Associate Professor of Legal Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam & Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand
Dr. Jeff Handmaker, Associate Professor of Legal Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam & Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand
January 27th, 2026
The ENCAMPMENTS - Film and Panel Discussion
Lux in Nijmegen @ 19:30
In partnership with Protest Lab, In Science, and Lux
December 15th, 2025
Scholasticide in Gaza : The Picturing Scholasticide Exhibition
CC5
12:15-13:30
https://www.picturingscholasticide.org
https://www.picturingscholasticide.org
November 26th, 2025
Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund
Maria Montessori 2.650
It's time to deconstruct their propaganda and learn about Antizionist Jewish History - which is as vibrant and intersectional as one would hope.
Join us, coming Wednesday, 26th November, 6:00pm, for a lecture given by Molly Crabapple, at Maria Montessori 2.650
The lecture starts at 6.30pm and there will be cookies and tea.❤️
6:00pm: Doors Open
6:30pm: Lecture Start
7:30pm: Q&A
Join us, coming Wednesday, 26th November, 6:00pm, for a lecture given by Molly Crabapple, at Maria Montessori 2.650
The lecture starts at 6.30pm and there will be cookies and tea.❤️
6:00pm: Doors Open
6:30pm: Lecture Start
7:30pm: Q&A
November 10th, 2025
Zionism Is Racism: 50 Years After the UN Resolution 3379
Spinoza 2
12:15-13:30
Professor Hanine Shehadeh, NYU Abu Dhabi &
Dr Anya Topolski, Radboud University
Please watch this (in dutch) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=8CY9Uy-xGdo
https://web.archive.org/web/20121206052903/http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/761C1063530766A7052566A2005B74D1
Professor Hanine Shehadeh, NYU Abu Dhabi &
Dr Anya Topolski, Radboud University
Please watch this (in dutch) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=8CY9Uy-xGdo
https://web.archive.org/web/20121206052903/http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/761C1063530766A7052566A2005B74D1
October 13th, 2025
How the Past Became a Weapon of Genocide in Palestine
SP2, Spinoza Complex
Time: 12:15-13:30
Dr. Marcella Ward, Open University, UK (https://profiles.open.ac.uk/marchella-ward)
Dr. Marcella Ward, Open University, UK (https://profiles.open.ac.uk/marchella-ward)
September 22nd, 2025
Searching for the Perpetrator: How the Media Frames a Genocide
Spinoza Building, SP1
Speaker: Fien Portier
Time: 12:15-13:30
Time: 12:15-13:30
May 26th, 2025
Repression, Removing Fear, and the Struggle to End the Zionist Project
Spinoza SP3, 12:15-13:30
Speaker: Dr. Harry Petit, Radboud University
Respondant: Encampment Student
Respondant: Encampment Student
May 26th, 2025
The Encampments - Film
TBA, 19:30 pm
The Encampments offers an urgent, intimate portrait of America’s student movement, ignited at Columbia University as students protested their universities’ ties to the war on Gaza.
May 12th, 2025
Policing Dissent : Perspectives on Protest, 'Safety' and Academic Freedom,
Location: Spinoza SP2
April 14th, 2025
Silencing Palestinians and the Gaza Genocide in Public Discourse
CC2
Speaker: Dr. Yasmeen Daher
12:30-13:30
12:30-13:30
March 24th - 24th, 2025
Banning UNRRWA - The Politics of Humanitarian Aid in Gaza
Spinoza SP3
Speakers: Dorothea Hilhorst & Haya AlFarra
12:30-13:30
12:30-13:30
November 4th, 2024
Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture by Mahmoud Muna & Matthew Teller
CC5
Book Tour with signing: all profits go to Medical Aid for Palestinians Monday
12.30 - 13.15
12.30 - 13.15
October 28th, 2024
Criminalisation, Diaspora & Starvation
SP1 (Spinoza Building)
12.15-13:30
This lecture is intended for Radboud students and staff - please make sure to have your Radboud identity card with you on Monday!
This lecture is intended for Radboud students and staff - please make sure to have your Radboud identity card with you on Monday!
September 23rd, 2024
Starvation as a Weapon of War - the Case of Gaza
CC2
Join us on Monday September 23, 12:15-13:30 for a lecture by Ali Aljasem about Starvation as a Weapon of War, focusing on the ongoing case of Gaza.
June 17th, 2024
Interrogating Colonial Fabrications: Palestine/Israel and the Muslim-Jewish “Eternal” Enmity
CC5 - Collegezaal complex
Speaker: Prof. Santiago Slabodsky, Author of Decolonizing Judaism
From 12.30-14:00
From 12.30-14:00
June 10th, 2024
POSTPONED: Criminalisation, Diaspora & Resistance
Radboud Student Encampment
This lecture is postponed due to last minute restrictions. More soon.
Speaker: Mohammed Khatib, Samidoun
Speaker: Mohammed Khatib, Samidoun
June 3rd, 2024
Objectivity & Emotions in Times of Genocide
Radboud Student Encampment
Dina Zbeidy & Harry Pettit
May 21st, 2024
The Diplomatic Realities of the Palestine Exception
NEW LOCATION: CC1, 12:15-13:30
Asmaa Alkaisi & Berber van der Woude
May 13th, 2024
How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom
CC3, 12:15-13:30
Dr Maya Wind, as part of her Towers of Ivory and Steel (2024) book tour of The Netherlands
April 15th, 2024
Deconstructing Zionism
CC5, 12:15-13:30
A panel discussion with Azar Dakwar, Janneke Stegeman and Anya Topolski
April 15th, 2024
Palestine, Race and International Law
Online (Zoom)
Please join us for a virtual discussion panel with international legal scholars on how race and its relationship with international law has come up in three ongoing proceedings before the International Court of Justice
March 26th, 2024
Ashla'a: Body Bags, Body Parts, and the Genocide in Gaza. A Conversation with Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian moderated by Nahed Samour
Online
March 18th, 2024
The Role of the US in Israel’s Domination of Palestine
CC5 - Note Last Minute Room Change!
by Dr. Tully Rector
February 26th, 2024
The destruction of health in Gaza
Room CC3 (Collegezalencomplex), Radboud University Nijmegen
February 2nd, 2024
The Israeli War on Gaza: An Overview of the Legal Dimensions
Radboud University CC5
15:00-17:00
February 1st, 2024
National Student and Scholar Protest for Palestine
The Hague
Call to staff, students and alumni across the Netherlands to demand academic boycott of Israeli apartheid.
January 29th, 2024
Time for an Academic Boycott of Israel?
12.15-13.30, Room CC5 (Collegezalencomplex)
Fiona Ben Chekroun, Europe coordinator for BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) campaigns, working for the Palestinian BDS National Committee leading the BDS movement for Palestinian rights. http://bdsmovement.net
Fiona Ben Chekroun, Europe coordinator for BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) campaigns, working for the Palestinian BDS National Committee leading the BDS movement for Palestinian rights. http://bdsmovement.net
December 12th, 2023
Has International Law Failed Palestine-Israel?
CC5
The teach in explores the legal frameworks applied so far to understand and overcome the challenges for Palestinians and Israelis. What have human rights law, the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, and other international legal bodies got to say about Palestine-Israel? And why has law so international law do far not delivered on any of its promises ?
November 27th, 2023
Situating Palestine Through The Lens of Settler Colonialism
EOS N01.630
