Press Releases
(Bethlehem, 29 May 2026)
BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights advocated for decolonial solutions with a variety of strategic partners, by holding 7 virtual and/or hybrid interventions during the month of May that were attended by hundreds of participants from around the globe.
BADIL contributed to Issue #334, May 2026 of This Week in Palestine (TWIP) with an article entitled, End the Ongoing Nakba: Decolonial Reparations for the Palestinian People. BADIL asserted that reparations grounded in a rights-based decolonial framework are the solution to end the ongoing Nakba which has resulted in 10.15 million Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons. Comprehensive sanctions to dismantle the structures of the Israeli colonial-apartheid regime and end states’ complicity are the first steps in a worldmaking reparative approach.
On 7 May, in partnership with Makan and the South Africa Human Rights Commission, BADIL held a webinar entitled, Uncovering Reparations: Lessons from Palestine and South Africa. Discussions regarding the promise and reality of reparations across both South Africa and Palestine highlighted the need for more critical and decolonial approaches to undo systemic injustices embedded by apartheid and colonization. Commissioner Tshepo Madlingozi described the gaps and restrictions in the South Africa case and the campaign that the Human Rights Commission is deploying to address them. BADIL emphasized the need for reparations as a cornerstone of a decolonial solution centering the Palestinian people’s self-determination and return. Moderated by Makan, the webinar (recording here) was attended by almost 50 people from around the world.
On the same day, BADIL in partnership with FFIPP Poland, held a film screening at a local theater featuring three of its short films: Tala – A Palm Tree in Gaza, A Depopulated Camp, and The 5-Hour Journey. This was followed by a presentation on BADIL’s working paper, The Israeli Apartheid Spatial Regime: Fragmentation and Enclavement of Palestine. BADIL’s presentation examined the realities, historical development, mechanisms, and political objectives of the Israeli regime’s enclavement of Palestine and the Palestinian people, highlighting how these policies serve as key tools of apartheid, displacement, and colonization. The screening was attended by approximately 50 people and the recording of the webinar can be found here.
On 9 May, in partnership with Nashama and ANPI in Luxembourg, BADIL held the hybrid event, Ongoing Nakba! The struggle of displacement and refugee rights, which included a screening of the film, A Depopulated Camp. Focusing on the ongoing and increasing displacement of Palestinian refugees, BADIL highlighted the failure and complicity of states and the need for actions that disrupt the status quo to bring about sanctions against the Israeli regime to end the ongoing Nakba. The hybrid event was attended by over 30 people.
On 14 May, BADIL held a film screening and briefing in partnership with UAntwerp for Palestine in Belgium, as part of broader student-led activities and initiatives calling on the university to cut all ties with Israeli institutions and to concretely support Palestinian higher education. This hybrid session featured the screenings of BADIL’s short films Tala – A Palm Tree in Gaza, A Depopulated Camp, and The 5-Hour Journey, followed by a presentation by BADIL on the fragmentation and enclavement of Palestine. The screening was followed by a Q&A session with participants and was attended by over 20 students.
On 19 May, convened by The New Humanitarian in partnership with BADIL, The Third World Approaches to International Law Review, Birzeit University Muwatin Institute for Democracy and Human Rights and Birzeit University Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Institute of International Studies, a webinar entitled, Humanitarianism in the West Bank: Structure, Power and Limits of Aid. The panelists included BADIL, Tammam Aloudat, CEO of The New Humanitarian, Matiangai Sirleaf, Nathan Patz Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and Bushra Khalidi, Global Humanitarian Policy Lead, Oxfam. Moderated by Layth Hanbali, Researcher at the Institute for Palestine Studies and PhD candidate, the discussion centered on exploring the limits of existing humanitarian frameworks and why, without meaningful accountability and radical change, current systems struggle to contribute to a more equitable and transformative future. BADIL proposed alternatives grounded in reparative decolonial approaches rather than imposed colonial management through incorrect ‘conflict resolution’ paradigms. The webinar was attended by 130 people from around the world and a recording of the discussion can be found here.
On 23 May, BADIL participated in a hybrid event entitled Our Mirrored Histories: Understanding Settler-Colonialism from Kansas City to Palestine, which featured the screening of the film, A Depopulated Camp. BADIL highlighted the ongoing impact of Operation Iron Wall as part of the Israeli regime’s “Decisive Plan” to impose its colonial domination in all of historic Palestine and beyond. The event was held by a former International Mobilization Course participant who aims to set the foundations for a solidarity network in Kansas City. The event was attended by around 20 participants.
BADIL’s advocacy interventions, supported by its strategic partnerships, aim to keep the Palestinian people’s inalienable rights to self-determination and return viable through the promotion of its decolonial reparative approach and solution. Demanding accountability through sanctions against the Israeli regime and an end to states’ complicity are the first steps to decolonization, reparations and liberation.
If your organization or movement would like to host a film screening or partner with BADIL in a virtual panel or webinar, email us via [email protected].