UN Special Rapporteur, Michael Fakhri: Starvation, Genocide, and Palestinian People's Food Sovereignty

To understand this moment of Palestinian liberation and global solidarity, it is worth examining how international law is framing ongoing debates. Israel announced and implemented its starvation campaign against the Palestinian People in Gaza on October 8. This has in part lead to the International Criminal Court issuing arrest warrants against individuals. But Israel as been starving people in Gaza for 17 years and undermining Palestinian food sovereignty for over 75 years. This talk examines how the legal concepts like starvation, genocide, and food sovereignty can clarify what is at stake for the Palestinian People and for struggles for freedom everywhere.

This event is co-sponsored by the Sawyer Seminar: Afterlives of Liberation, Department of Africana Studies, Rutgers University, New York University, Promise Institute for Human Rights, and UCLA School of Law

Michael Fakhri is the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. He is also a Professor at the University of Oregon School of Law.