Emergency Teach-In: Ceasefire is Genocide: Why the ICJ is Antisemitic -- Featuring Sinan Antoon…

Emergency Teach-In: Ceasefire is Genocide: Why the ICJ is Antisemitic Featuring Sinan Antoon, Cultural Landscape Specialist Adel Iskandar, Media Landscape Specialist Bassam Haddad, Social Science Specialist Thursday, 1 February 2024 3:30 PM EST | 10:30 PM Gaza if you فيل something condemn Hamas immediately call ٢٤٢ Reasonable people can see right through the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) blatant antisemitism, as it presided over South Africa’s charge of Genocide against Israel. Instead of throwing out the case and the demand for immediate ceasefire along with it, the ICJ called for the end to all genocidal tactics by Israel, which effectively means a ceasefire of sorts. But Ceasefire actually is Genocide, of course. According to Israel’s mathematical logic, it is pretty simple. If you are calling for the end of the killing of Palestinians only after killing 32,000 of them, you are effectively calling for the killing of all Israelis, and that is clearly Genocide. Join our illustrious panel of experts, the hosts of the Podcast “3 Arabs &,” which will probably never be recorded, in squaring the circle. الله يستر Featuring Sinan Antoon is a poet, novelist, scholar and translator. He has published five novels and two collections of poetry. A third collection of poetry in English, entitled Postcards from the Underworld, was published by Seagull Books this past October. He has been described as one of the most acclaimed Arab novelists. His most recent work in Arabic is a novel entitled, Khuzama His literary translations from Arabic include Saadi Youssef’s Nostalgia; My Enemy and Mahmoud Darwish’s In the Presence of Absence which won the National Translation Award given by the American Literary Translators Association. His scholarly works include the book, Ibn al-Hajjaj and Sukhf: The Poetics of the Obscene in Pre-Modern Arabic Poetry. He is associate professor at New York University. He is co-founder and co-editor of Jadaliyya. Adel Iskandar is an Associate Professor of Global Communication at Simon Fraser University, where he is the Director of the Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies and the Chair of Graduate Studies in the School of Communication. He is the author, co-author and co-editor of numerous works including Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation(University of California Press, 2010). Iskandar is a Co-Editor of Jadaliyya. Bassam Haddad is Founding Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program and Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford University Press, 2011) and co-editor of A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2021). Bassam is Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine and Executive Director of the Arab Studies Institute. He serves as Founding Editor of the Arab Studies Journal and the Knowledge Production Project. He is co-producer/director of the award-winning documentary film, About Baghdad, and director of the acclaimed series Arabs and Terrorism. Bassam is Executive Producer of Status Podcast Channel and Director of the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI). He received MESA’s Jere L. Bacharach Service Award in 2017 for his service to the profession. Currently, Bassam is working on his second Syria book titled Understanding The Syrian Tragedy: Regime, Opposition, Outsiders (forthcoming, Stanford University Press).