Critical Perspectives on Israel & Palestine: Standing Together
- Pacific Time Virtual Program
Critical Perspectives on Israel & Palestine consists of five stand-alone sessions, each requiring separate registration. These sessions invite participants into serious, pluralistic engagement with sharply different analyses and visions for the future of Israel/Palestine. We'll also examine the moral and political frameworks that shape those visions.
In each session, we feature a scholar, organizer, or public leader offering a distinct critical lens—followed by moderated conversation and public Q&A. The goal isn't consensus. It's clarity: hearing arguments on their own terms, understanding what's at stake, and sharpening our ability to think and speak with rigor in a time of polarization.
This session: Rula Daood & Nadav Shofet
Rula Daood and Nadav Shofet are leaders in Standing Together, a grassroots movement of Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel organizing for partnership and a shared future. Daood, a Palestinian from Kafr Yasif in the Galilee, serves as national co-director; Shofet, a Jewish organizer from Tel Aviv, helped establish the movement's Jewish-Arab solidarity guard after October 7. Together, they'll offer an on-the-ground perspective from civic and social-movement work inside Israel/Palestine: what solidarity looks like in practice, how coalitions hold under pressure, and what possibilities—and limits—emerge when you try to build a politics that speaks to both peoples' needs and fears at once.
Who this is for: Anyone seeking a serious, pluralistic exploration of Israel/Palestine—students, educators, organizers, and community members ready to engage difficult questions, encounter disagreement, and think critically about what they hear. No prior expertise is required.
What you'll leave with: Clearer insight into the debates and choices shaping Israel/Palestine today, exposure to a sharply defined political framework on its own terms, and sharper tools for critical, informed engagement—in study, dialogue, and public life.
You may be interested in other sessions in this series:
| Date | Speaker(s) | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| January 26 | Hadar Susskind | New Jewish Narrative: Diaspora-grounded political lens on peace, security, and justice |
| February 1 | Reda Mansour | Diplomacy, Poetry, and the Druze Perspective |
| February 8 | MK Aïda Touma-Suleiman | Activism and Feminist Organizing among Palestinian Citizens of Israel |
| March 1 | Daniel Boyarin | On The No-State Solution: recovering Jewish peoplehood beyond the nation-state |
| March 22 | Rula Daood & Nadav Shofet | Standing Together: Jewish-Palestinian grassroots organizing against occupation and for shared futures |
- Format: brief introduction to our guests, ~60 minutes of moderated conversation, and ~25–30 minutes of participant Q&A
- Recording: this session will be recorded. Access to the recording will be available separately (details to follow).
- Conversation norms: we welcome disagreement and will moderate to keep the conversation rigorous and respectful. Q&A is for concise, good-faith questions; personal attacks, dehumanizing language, or advocacy of harm will be moderated.
Register to join the live session—and be part of the conversation.
