Gaza Starvation Warfare - How terror labels block aid and outlaw activism
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Israel has long weaponized deprivation against Palestinians, but Gaza’s current famine exposes genocide in its rawest form. The West enables this—defunding UNRWA, smearing aid workers, and using Hamas' terror designation to justify mass starvation. This label violates international law by denying Palestinians their right to resist occupation while allowing Israel to destroy schools, hospitals, bakeries, farms, and aid convoys under the guise of military operations.
Beyond Palestine, the terror listing criminalizes solidarity, equating pro-Palestine advocacy with terrorism and freezing $200 million in UNRWA funds. It fuels surveillance and prosecution of activists across Europe and North America, turning mourning Gaza’s dead into extremism.
CAGE’s legal challenge exposes how this designation sustains both Gaza’s starvation blockade and global repression of Palestine solidarity. Dismantling it would break Gaza’s siege and weaken the legal framework silencing dissent. Silence is complicity—resistance is an obligation.
Join us to confront this legalised killing, expose how Western complicity manufactures famine, and learn how we can dismantle the architecture of genocide.
Speakers
Anas Mustapha
Head of Public Advocacy
Anas Mustapha is the Head of Public Advocacy at CAGE UK, guiding media strategy and pioneering high-impact research and reports. He is a speaker and advocate against the abuse of state power, specialising across the breadth of UK Counter Terrorism. Anas holds a degree in English language, is a native Arabic speaker and a student of Islamic sciences.
Franck Magennis
Barrister
Franck Magennis is a barrister practising in public, civil and criminal defence. His work centres on challenging rights breaches by the British and other states, employers and landlords. He has expertise in legal claims representing Palestinians and anti-Zionists who challenge Israeli colonialism and apartheid. He is currently acting for a number of people who've been dragged in front of their professional regulators, fired or otherwise victimised for expressing anti-Zionist political opinions. His practice spans asylum and immigration, public law, housing, employment and industrial relations, civil actions against public authorities, inquests, criminal defence, prison law, and international law.
Noor Fares
Palestinian Student
A Palestinian student activist who faced disciplinary action for speaking out in support of Palestinian resistance. Her experience has deepened her commitment to defending the rights of students to engage in political activism without academic retaliation. She is now actively involved with ASAP (Association for Student Activism for Palestine), where she works to support and advocate for students facing institutional pushback due to their solidarity with Palestine.
Dr Azzam Tamimi
Dr Azzam Tamimi is an outspoken and well-known British Palestinian academic and political activist. He writes and lectures on issues relating to Islamic political thought and Middle Eastern politics. Dr Tamimi received his BSc in Combined Sciences from the University of Sunderland in 1979, before completing a PhD in Political Theory from the University of Westminster in 1998. He is currently the Chairman and Editor in Chief of Al Hiwar TV Channel. He has been a visiting professor at Kyoto University (2004) and Nagoya University (2006).
He makes regular television appearances for both English language and Arabic media outlets such as AlJazeera and Press TV, and frequently publishes opinion pieces in the Guardian and other newspapers.
Dr Tamimi is the author of several books on Middle Eastern and Islamic politics including Hamas: Unwritten Chapters (2007), Rachid Ghannouchi: A Democrat within Islamism (2001).
Ahmed Jeddo
Human Aid, Advocacy coordinator
Delivering this topic will be Ustadh Ahmed Jeddo. He is a graduate in Economics and recently completed his Masters in Politics of the Middle East at the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS). He has studied classical Arabic abroad and has spent time learning from various scholars. Ustadh Ahmed is also Chief Editor of The Muslim World, a Telegram based News Content/ Analysis Channel and he is currently the advocacy coordinator for Human Aid and Advocacy.
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