Makan

From the Favelas and Rural Brazil to Gaza: How militarism and greenwashing shape relations, resistance, and solidarity with Palestine in Brazil
2026-06-18 18:30 - 20:00 (Europe/London)
Join Makan & TNI’s joint upcoming online webinar that will provide an overview of Andressa Oliveira Soares’s article, “From the Favelas and Rural Brazil to Gaza: How militarism and greenwashing shape relations, resistance, and solidarity with Palestine in Brazil”, featured as a part of TNI’s Palestine Liberation Series. This session will:

explore relations between Brazil and Israel, providing some historical context and setting out the countries’ military cooperation, agribusiness deals, oil trade, and diplomatic postures – especially in the past 20 years
examine how resistance and solidarity with Palestine, specifically BDS, has developed in Brazil over the last decade.
discuss the challenges currently faced in pro-Palestine solidarity, and how to overcome them, including priority targets and a promising path forward

The session will include a 1 hour talk and a Q&A. It will take place on Thursday 18th June, 6.30pm London time.
Secure your spot here
About Makan:
Makan is an independent, non-partisan organisation dedicated to intersectional learning. Our approach is grounded in a belief that education is a liberatory act that can lay the ground for structural change. Situating Palestine within the context of other human rights, social justice and global liberation movements, we work towards transformation by adopting educational approaches that capture the history of the Palestinian struggle and the realities on the ground. We aim to support advocates as part of a community that is not only well-informed, interconnected, and empowered, but passionately committed to cultivating a future for Palestinians built on freedom, justice, and dignity.
About TNI:
The Transnational Institute (TNI) is an international research and advocacy institute committed to building a just, democratic, and sustainable planet. For over 50 years, TNI has served as a unique nexus between social movements, engaged scholars, and policymakers. TNI envisions a world of peace, equity and democracy on a sustainable planet brought about and sustained by an informed and engaged citizenry, and whose research uniquely combines a ‘big picture’ analysis with proposals and solutions that are both just and pragmatic. Our capacity to build long-term respectful mutual relationships with strategic social movements is helping put radical ideas into movement.

Educators for Liberation Programme (Online)
2026-07-08 18:00 - 20:00
Makan is inviting applications for our ‘Educators for Liberation’ programme, a transformative education programme for people who want to support Palestine liberation and other struggles for justice through facilitating community learning spaces rooted in liberation and transformation. The programme is open to people worldwide. We welcome application from organisers, trainers, educators, students, campaigners, community leaders, workers, and anyone active in social justice, anti-colonial and liberation movements and community spaces.
Apply here!
About the Programme:
The programme is rooted in liberation-centered education and builds on Makan’s 10 years of work organising, teaching, facilitation, and collaborations for Palestine and other social justice causes. The programme also draws and learns through archival material from the work of movements and thinkers that came before us, including Palestinian political education, anti-colonial movements and tricontinentalism, anti-racist organising, feminist movements, community education and Palestine solidarity. At a time of growing censorship, repression, surveillance, and funding restrictions around Palestine, there is an urgent pressing need for education that speaks truth to power and nurtures communities committed to the rights of all living beings to live and prosper in societies that respect and refuse to compromise on social, racial, environmental, and economic justice.

Before applying please note the following :

This is a voluntary role. Given the current wave of censorship and funding restrictions, the training programme aims to support and sustain Makan’s work by de-centralising political education and meeting the growing demands of the wider liberation movement. Allowing more communities worldwide to access principled, accurate, reflective liberatory education on the Palestinian struggle
This training requires a commitment of 8 hours in the span of a month. The training is divided across 4 to 5 weeks in July or September, depending on your chosen cohort. For the first two rounds of the training we are only accepting 25 facilitators per cohort.
Sessions will take place online every Wednesday evening from 6:00 pm (London time). Each each session will last approximately 2 hours.
Dates for July sessions: 8 July, 15 July, 22 July, 29 July, 5 August
Dates for September sessions: 23 September, 30 September, 7 October, 14 October, 21 October

Programme Structure:

The training will take place over 5 sessions, with each session lasting around 2 hours. All sessions include participatory approaches and exercises, and facilitators will be sent materials before and after the session that will help them build confidence, skills and knowledge.

More details can be found on the application form here

Zionism, Gender, and Sexuality
2026-07-14 18:30 - 20:30
In the first part of our ‘Gender, Sexuality, and Anti-Colonial Struggle in Palestine’ workshop series, we examine the relationship between colonialism and gender broadly, and examine how this applies in the context of Palestine. This workshop will focus specifically on the role of gender in the construction of Israeli society historically, during the early days of the Zionist movement and the foundation of the Israeli state, before examining how the role of gender in Israeli society has adapted and shifted over time, co-opting progressive ideas but maintaining colonial goals.
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Deadline: Tuesday 7 July

Israel’s Weaponisation of Gender & Sexuality
2026-07-28 20:30
In the second part of this series, this workshop aims to promote a deeper understanding of gender and sexuality not just as social issues but as material and political issues in the Palestinian context. This session specifically examines how Zionism constructs racist, colonial stereotypes of Palestinian men and women, and weaponises gender stereotypes of masculinity and femininity to further the oppression of Palestinians.
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Deadline: Tuesday 21 July

Palestinian Resistance to Gendered, Sexual and Colonial Oppression
2026-08-11 18:30 - 20:30
In the third part of this workshop series, this workshop focuses on Palestinian resistance to gendered and sexual oppression, highlighting feminist and queer Palestinian movements and organising. By situating gender and sexuality as central to the Palestinian struggle, we will discuss how the Palestinian anti-colonial resistance has historically gone hand in hand with struggling against internal patriarchal structures as well as Israel’s weaponisation of gendered stereotypes.

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Deadline: Tuesday 4 August

How to Talk About Gender, Sexuality, & Palestine
2026-08-25 18:30 - 20:30
This workshop aims to help people expand their skills when talking about Palestine in relation to topics of gender and sexuality by offering communication tips on how to engage in such conversations and how to respond to various arguments. Through facilitating a safe discussion space, we go through a variety of recurring talking points regularly heard in the media and the wider public conversation on this topic, and we collectively analyse these arguments and how to respond to them.

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Deadline: Tuesday 18 August
