We are seeing this catastrophe unfold in front of our eyes:

Hundreds of thousands of Gazan civilians are fleeing to southern Gaza, which continues to be attacked.  Hospitals and schools have been bombed, and hundreds of health care workers have been killed.  Thousands of displaced Palestinians are living in tents in squalid areas, with little food or water, increasing disease with little to no medical care.

As our speaker, Jehad Abusalim, said in a recent tweet, “This is 1948 all over again, on a much larger and more brutal scale… This is the result of 75 years of zero accountability and complete impunity for this savage state. This is the result of normalizing anti-Palestinian hate and racism.”

Jehad will talk about the current situation in Gaza and the complexities of helping his own displaced family in Gaza and his analysis of “the ongoing Nakba”.

Jehad Abusalim is the Executive Director of The Jerusalem Fund and its educational program, The Palestine Center.  He was formerly the Education and Policy Coordinator American Friends Service Committee and a Fellow at the Foundation For Middle East Peace.  Jehad earned a PhD in Hebrew and Judaic Studies/History from NYU, and is the editor of Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire, an anthology of Palestinian writers and artists,  published by Haymarket Books in 2022. He has been published in +972 Magazine, Al-Jazeera English, Palestine Square, Journal of Palestine Studies, and Vox, and contributed to the anthology Gaza as Metaphor with a chapter entitled “From Fence to Fence: Retelling Gaza’s Story.” Jehad’s family continues to live in Gaza.

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