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On 24 May 2025, BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights hosted a webinar titled “The Ongoing Nakba and Solidarity under Fire: States’ Crackdown on Dissent.” Attended by over 75 participants, the event brought together legal experts and grassroots activists to examine complicit states’ intensifying repression of the Palestine solidarity movement, aligning with the Israeli regime’s agenda and increasingly embedding it within their own domestic policies.

The discussion focused on how complicit governments actively enforce restrictions on solidarity, criminalize dissent, and contribute to the shrinking space for advocacy. The European Legal Support Center (ELSC) detailed common repression tactics employed by European states to silence voices of solidarity and dismantle mobilization efforts that aim at disrupting the status quo. Activists from the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM, USA) and Zivilgesellschaft für Gerechtigkeit (ZfG, Germany) shared personal testimonies of resistance, recounting the challenges, achievements, and strategies that shape their solidarity work. BADIL underscored the urgent need for states to impose military, economic, and diplomatic sanctions on the Israeli regime in response to the ongoing Nakba, genocide, and other international crimes perpetrated against the Palestinian people.

Together, participants examined how grassroots strategies—such as direct action, divestment campaigns, and popular mobilization—can be leveraged to challenge the complicity of governments and institutions. The webinar centered on a crucial question: What does effective solidarity look like in the face of state repression and complicity in genocide? Speakers emphasized that confronting such repression requires more than symbolic protest; it demands bold, sustained action that disrupts the systems and structures enabling state complicity, making it politically, economically, and socially untenable for governments to support or tolerate the Israeli regime’s crimes.