RESTORING COLLECTIVE IDENTITY AND DIGNITY
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LEX TAKKENBERG IN CONVERSATION WITH BASHIR BASHIR
RESTORING COLLECTIVE IDENTITITY AND DIGNITY
Palestinian Refugees: The Quest for Solutions
The Palestinian refugee question, resulting from the events surrounding the birth of the State of Israel seventy years ago, remains one of the largest and most protracted refugee crises of the post-Second World War era. Numbering over six million in the Near East alone, Palestinian refugees’ status varies considerably according to the state or territory hosting them, the UN agency assisting them, and political circumstances surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict these refugees are naturally associated with. Despite being foundational to both the experience of the Palestinian refugees and the resolution to their plight, international law is often side-lined in political discussions concerning their fate. Lex Takkenberg has dedicated his professional life to the question of Palestinian refugees since the very onset of his career. His doctoral dissertation in International Law on The Status of Palestinian Refugees in International Law - an integral Arabic translation of which was published by the Institute for Palestine Studies in 2003 - has recently been reissued in a new updated version co-authored with Francesca Albanese. In a conversation with Bashir Bashir, the continued relevance of the Palestinian refugee issue – and the financial perils of the UNRWA, the UN agency supporting them - for the broader quest for a resolution of the Israel-Palestine situation will be explored. The conversation will place the refugee issue and its resolution in the broader contemporary debate on migration and refugees through the prism of international law.
Bashir Bashir is Associate Professor at the Open University of Israel and Senior Research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. He is co-editor of The Holocaust and Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History (Columbia University Press, 2018); and The Arab and Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond (Columbia University Press, 2020).
Lex Takkenberg is Senior Advisor on the Question of Palestine at the Civil Society Organisation Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development and non-resident Professor of Humanitarian Affairs at Fordham University. Prior to that he held various positions at UNRWA, including Gaza, Syria and HQ.