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Despite the ongoing Israeli genocidal campaign on the Gaza Strip, severe repression and restrictions in the West Bank, and growing crackdowns on international solidarity movements and ongoing complicity by Western states backing the Israeli regime, BADIL Resource Center successfully concluded its 6th Annual International Mobilization Course (IMC). The course was held from 20 to 31 July 2025, bringing together 13 participants from across the world, particularly from the Global South. Over the course of these ten days, participants engaged in legal analysis, workshops, and lectures to explore the Palestinian reality from an international law perspective. They also witnessed the situation on the ground through testimonies and extensive field visits.
Grounded in its legal analysis, BADIL presented the framework of the Israeli 77-year colonial-apartheid regime, built upon three core pillars: forcible transfer, colonization, and apartheid. Amid more than 20 months of the Israeli regime’s genocide on Gaza, the course also explored how forced displacement is used as a tool of genocide, alongside the systematic suppression of Palestinian resistance designed to deny the Palestinian people their inalienable rights to self-determination and return. BADIL also introduced its rights-based decolonization framework and the necessity of a reparative approach which aims to bring the ongoing Nakba to an end and establish the foundations for Palestinian liberation and return.
The accuracy of BADIL’s analysis was affirmed through field visits across historic Palestine, highlighting diverse mechanisms of forced displacement, colonization, and apartheid. Visit locations included Aida and Dheisheh Refugee Camps, Al Walaja, Jerusalem, Hebron’s Old City, Haifa, Nazareth, and others.
Participants heard powerful testimonies from survivors and descendants of the Al Tantura massacre, Palestinian youth with Israeli citizenship fighting the Israeli-engineered erasure of their Palestinian identity, fishermen from Jisr Al Zarqa struggling against Israeli geographic, socio-economic sieges, Palestinians experiencing the genocide on Gaza, and former prisoners who endured administrative detention and torture in Israeli prisons.
The IMC is part of BADIL’s international advocacy program and targets international activists, lawyers, scholars, and human rights defenders engaged in advancing the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people. The course aims to strengthen international mobilization by deepening participants’ knowledge and advocacy skills while providing them with a comprehensive understanding of the Israeli colonial-apartheid regime in Palestine.
The course is made possible through strong partnerships with Palestinian civil society, including both community-based organizations and individuals.
We extend our sincere thanks to all Palestinians who contributed to the course for their time, insight, and unwavering resilience.
