Over the past week, Jadaliyya co-editor Noura Erakat has joined a variety of programs to discuss developments in Israel's ongoing genocide of Gaza. Watch these four segments below where Erakat touches on a number of subjects including the definition of genocide, Palestinian prisoners, Israeli hostages, and the future of the Palestine.
Noura Erakat joined Joy Ried on her show, the Riedout, on MSNBC to discuss Israel's violence campaign in Gaza.
Noura Erakat joined BBC to discuss the Palestinian prisoners' release as part of the deal which secured a temporary (now-ended) pause amid the ongoing genocide of Gaza.
Noura Erakat joined Al Jazeera to discuss the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners as part of the terms of the humanitarian truce that temporarily paused the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Noura Erakat joined TIME for a conversation on the meaning of genocide and whether the current conflict could be labeled as such. Click here to watch the full video and read more.
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Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick Department of Africana Studies. Her research interests include humanitarian law, refugee law, national security law, and critical race theory. Noura is the author of Justice for Some: Law As Politics in the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019). She is a Co-Founding Editor of Jadaliyya e-zine and an Editorial Committee member of the Journal of Palestine Studies. She has served as Legal Counsel for a Congressional Subcommittee in the House of Representatives, as a Legal Advocate for the Badil Center for Palestinian Refugee and Residency Rights, and as the national grassroots organizer and legal advocate at the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. Noura is the coeditor of Aborted State? The UN Initiative and New Palestinian Junctures, an anthology related to the 2011 and 2012 Palestine bids for statehood at the UN. More recently, Noura released a pedagogical project on the Gaza Strip and Palestine, which includes a short multimedia documentary, "Gaza In Context," that rehabilitates Israel’s wars on Gaza within a settler-colonial framework. She is also the producer of the short video, "Black Palestinian Solidarity." She is a frequent commentator, with recent appearances on CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NPR, among others, and her writings have been widely published in the national media and academic journals.