London: Join us for an unmissable opportunity to hear from Noura Erakat in her only UK event for 2026.
She will present her new book, Confronting Zionism, alongside the book’s co-author, John Reynolds, followed by a conversation with Rafeef Ziadah.
Join us at the beautiful central London venue, The Light, to hear from one of the world’s most powerful speakers on Palestine and be among the first in the world to pick up your copy of Confronting Zionism.
Noura Erakat is a Palestinian-American human rights attorney and Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Criminal Justice at Rutgers University. She is the author of the award-winning Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine, and co-founding editor of Jadaliyya. A leading legal voice on Palestine, she has advised US Congress, worked with Palestinian refugee rights organisations, and is a widely sought commentator on international law and the struggle for Palestinian liberation.
John Reynolds is Associate Professor of Law at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, where his work examines the intersections of international law with colonialism, apartheid, and political economy. He is the author of the acclaimed Empire, Emergency and International Law and a member of the editorial collective of the Third World Approaches to International Law Review. In Confronting Zionism, his legal scholarship joins Erakat's to trace the colonial architecture underpinning Israeli rule.
Rafeef Ziadah is a Palestinian poet, trade union organiser, and Senior Lecturer in Politics and Public Policy at King's College London. Known internationally for spoken-word performances such as "We Teach Life, Sir," she brings together grassroots organising and academic research on race, empire, and political economy in the Middle East. She is co-editor of Revolutionary Feminisms and a leading voice connecting Palestinian solidarity with global movements for justice.
About the Book
Drawing on the history of global anticolonial movements and a rich Palestinian intellectual tradition, two leading legal scholars demonstrate that justice in Palestine cannot be realized without confronting the problem of Zionism
For over one hundred years, Palestinians have struggled for liberation in their homeland. Confronting Zionism takes direct analytical aim at the ideology and institutional structures animating Israel’s brutal rule over Palestinian lives.
With cutting precision and comprehensive evidence, Noura Erakat and John Reynolds argue that Zionism is colonial and racist in essence and practice. Tracing the history of the Zionist project, the establishment of the Israeli settler colonial state and development of its apartheid laws and institutions—plus the damning failure of diplomatic efforts, including the Oslo peace process—this book provides the concepts and tools for understanding the horrors unfolding in Palestine today.
Erakat and Reynolds also provide a clear-eyed assessment of the role of international law, in a world where its relevance is increasingly in question. Taking lessons from ongoing inequalities in South Africa as well as anticolonial and socialist policies across the global south, Confronting Zionism argues that at this crucial historical juncture, decolonization in Palestine predicated on redistribution, reparations and refugee return remains the only just way forward.