Category: Our public speeches

Video of the symposium at the National Assembly: Breaking the Cycle of Complicity, Denial, and Impunity; Returning to International Law

Watch the May 21, 2026 symposium (in French) at the National Assembly titled “Breaking the Triangle of Complicity, Denial, and Impunity: Returning to International Law,” divided into three roundtables. Introduction by Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Presentation at Roundtable 1, “Complicity(ies),” by Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun, sociologist and philosopher, professor of sociology at Paris-Diderot University, vice president of the Association of Academics for the Respect of International Law in Palestine (AURDIP), and author of *Le sionisme une invention européenne. Genèse d’une idéologie*.

Video of the conference: International Crimes Committed Against Palestine

In this lecture (in French) delivered on May 6, 2026, at ENS Paris-Saclay, Rafaëlle Maison, a professor of public law at Paris-Saclay University and a specialist in public international law, analyzes the legal classification of the events in Gaza as genocide, as well as the torture and other acts of violence suffered by Palestinians detained by Israel. The presentation draws in particular on the numerous reports produced by United Nations bodies—especially the Independent International Commission of Inquiry—and by human rights organizations, whose findings have yet to be widely publicized or discussed in the public debate.