Makan

NSUN with Makan - Madness & Palestinian Liberation Part 1 (Online)
2026-05-06 16:00 - 17:30 (Europe/London)
Mad Campaigns Lab is a space for NSUN members (individuals with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress, and/or trauma, as well as grassroots, user-led mental health groups).
Madness & Palestinian Liberation (with Makan)
Part 1: 6th May, 4.00-5.30pm. Panel & discussion
How are Disability Justice and Palestinian Liberation interlinked? How does settler colonialism work to shape experiences of mental ill-health & madness? Join NSUN and guest speakers from Makan to learn more.
This session will include a presentation and discussion between NSUN and Makan. This first half will be recorded but this will not include participants’ names or faces. After the break we will take questions from the audience, which will not be recorded.

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Uncovering Reparations: Lessons from Palestine and South Africa: A talk with Lubnah Shomali & Tshepo Madlingozi (Online)
2026-05-07 17:00 - 18:30
Register your place here
Global discussions increasingly highlight the necessity and role of reparations to achieve accountability, redress and justice for historical injustices. If done effectively, reparations have an essential role in decolonial processes. The Ongoing Nakba of the Palestinian people and the “post-apartheid” situation of South Africa offer an opportunity to reflect on the importance of reparations and decolonization in dismantling the structures of foreign domination and systems of oppression.

For Palestinians, this involves confronting the continuation and consequences of root causes of the Ongoing Nakba: Israeli forced displacement and transfer, colonization, apartheid and genocide. For South Africans who are living a ‘post-apartheid’ reality characterised by a lack of reparations and sustainable social reconciliation, there continue to be ongoing efforts working to redress the issues around what true reconciliation and justice should look like.
Join BADIL, Makan & the South Africa Human Rights Commission for an upcoming webinar that aims to provide a space to educate participants on the ongoing Nakba and the process of dismantling apartheid and reparations in South Africa; examine the legal, political, and moral foundations for reparations; discuss the South African case as a precedent, highlighting its achievements and failures; and explore strategies for advocacy, accountability, and global solidarity in advancing reparations.
About Tshepo Madlingozi
Tshepo is the Commissioner of the South Africa Human Rights Commission.
Trained in law and sociology, he is a scholar-activist whose work focuses on decolonization, reparative justice, human rights, and participatory democracy. In 2024, the President of South Africa appointed Madlingozi as a full-time Commissioner at the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), an independent constitutional body. At the SAHRC, he is responsible for the Anti-racism, Education, and Equality key areas.
About Lubnah Shomali
Lubnah is a Palestinian activist and has worked with BADIL since 2012. She aims to advance a rights-based decolonial framework and solution for Palestine, centering the Palestinian people’s inalienable rights to self-determination and return, and is responsible for BADIL’s donor relations, fund development, and legal and international advocacy.
About BADIL
BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights is an independent, human rights non-profit organization committed to defend and promote the rights of Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons. Our vision, mission, programs and relationships are defined by our Palestinian identity and the principles of international humanitarian and human rights law. We seek to advance the individual and collective rights of the Palestinian people on this basis.
About Makan:
Makan is an independent, non-partisan organisation dedicated to interconnected 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.

Reframing Palestine - Waltham Forest for a Free Palestine
2026-05-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Hornbeam Cafe, 458 Hoe Street, Walthamstow, London, E17 9AH
This workshop for Waltham Forest for a Free Palestine will delve into the key frameworks and concepts through which the Palestinian struggle can be understood, such as settler-colonialism, occupation, apartheid, peace process, Nakba, and more. Through interweaving a historical and conceptual analysis of the trajectory of the Palestinian cause, this workshop will offer a critical understanding of Palestine, its history, and the discourse around it.
You can also hear updates about the Pensions divestment campaign, and learn more about how to get involved in action for Palestine in Waltham Forest.
Register your place here
Wednesday 27th May 7-9pm
Location: Hornbeam Cafe (458 Hoe Street, Walthamstow, United Kingdom E17 9AH)

Makan – Communications & Advanced Debating (Online)
2026-06-02 18:00 - 20:30
This workshop aims to provide attendees with skills and tools to engage with different audiences and to effectively deal with difficult questions in potentially high-pressured situations. Each participant will put their knowledge and communication skills to practice by engaging in a one-on-one debate roleplay with Makan facilitators. Each debate is then followed by detailed facilitated feedback.
Tuesday 2nd June, 6:00-8:30pm
Apply for your spot here

Palestine, Brazil & South Africa: Contending with Christian Zionism’s disruption of South to South Solidarities: A conversation with Isabela Agostinelli and Fathi Nimer
2026-06-17 17:00 - 18:30
Book your place today by registering here
Join Al-Shabaka & Makan’s upcoming conversation with Isabela Agostinelli and Fathi Nimer, who will provide a comparative analysis of the mobilisation of Christian Zionism across Brazil and South Africa historically and today. The discussion will delve into the ways in which this transnational movement is being deployed across the global south and how to build more robust south to south solidarities.
There is often a misconception that peoples across the Global South are inherently on the side of the Palestinian liberation movement. This not only flattens and homogenises the complex histories of south-south solidarity, it erases the history and development of Christian Zionism and its impact on global majority relationships. In recent years, Israel and the United States have systematically disrupted global south solidarity with Palestinians by mobilising Christian Zionism across civil societies institutions, particularly in the cases of Brazil and South Africa.
Wednesday 17th June on Zoom at 5pm – 6.15pm (London time)
About Isabela Agostinelli
Isabela Agostinelli is the Professor of International Relations at Fundação Escola de Comércio Álvares Penteado (FECAP), São Paulo, Brazil. She is a researcher at the International Conflict Studies Group (GECI) at PUC-SP and the National Institute of Science and Technology for United States Studies (INCT-INEU). She holds a PhD in International Relations from the San Tiago Dantas Graduate Program (UNESP, UNICAMP, PUC-SP). Her research focuses on Palestine Studies with an emphasis on the Gaza Strip; United States Foreign Policy in the Middle East, with a focus on the Gulf.
About Fathi Nimer
Fathi is Al-Shabaka’s Palestine policy fellow. He previously worked as a research associate with the Arab World for Research and Development, a teaching fellow at Birzeit University, and a program officer with the Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies. Fathi holds a master’s degree in political science from Heidelberg University and is the co-founder of DecolonizePalestine.com, a knowledge repository for the Palestinian question. Fathi’s research revolves around political economy and contentious politics. His current focus is on food sovereignty, agroecology, and the resistance economy in Palestine.
About Al Shabaka:
Al-Shabaka, The Palestinian Policy Network, is an independent, non-partisan, and non-profit organization whose mission is to educate and foster public debate on Palestinian human rights and self-determination within the framework of international law. Al-Shabaka, which means “The Network,” is a think tank without borders or walls that aims to:

Draw upon the vast knowledge and experience of the Palestinian people, whether under occupation, in exile, or in Israel, so as to engage the broadest spectrum of perspectives in debate on policy and strategy.

Communicate ideas and strategies on resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to Palestinian communities as well as to Arab and other policy communities and interested parties worldwide

About Makan:
Makan is an independent, non-partisan organisation dedicated to interconnected 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.

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
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
