Join Professor John Dugard, author of Confronting Apartheid: A Personal History of South Africa, Namibia and Palestine and Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation around the World, in conversation with Koketso Moeti on Monday, 25 March.

From investigative journalism to international law, community organising and individual acts of solidarity, the panel will explore how there can be no compromise when it comes to human rights abuses and instances of apartheid around the world. And it is for us all to participate and protest.

John Dugard is a South African professor of international law. His main academic specialisations are in Roman-Dutch law, public international law, jurisprudence, human rights, criminal procedure and international criminal law. In 2000, Dugard was appointed by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) as chairman of a commission of inquiry on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, and in 2001, he was appointed United Nations Special Rapporteur to the UNCHR. He has published extensively on apartheid, human rights and international law, and is part of South Africa's legal team that has brought a case against Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in respect of genocide. Dugard is one of South Africa’s greatest legal minds, and is a recipient of the Order of the Companions of O.R. Tambo in Gold. South Africa and Israel have picked prominent figures - former UN special rapporteur John Dugard and British lawyer Malcolm Shaw - to lead their teams in the high-stakes legal battle at the International Court of Justice. South Africa and Israel have picked prominent figures - former UN special rapporteur John Dugard and British lawyer Malcolm Shaw - to lead their teams in the high-stakes legal battle at the International Court of Justice.

Investigative journalist and bestselling author Antony Loewenstein was the winner of the Walkley Book Award in 2023, the Australian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. The Palestine Laboratory won the People’s Choice Award at the 2024 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, one of Australia’s leading writing prizes, and has been received great acclaim around the world. Loewenstein is also a regular commentator on Al Jazeera, and writes for the Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald amongst other newspapers.

The Palestine Laboratory shows how Palestine has become the perfect laboratory for the Israeli military-techno complex: surveillance, home demolitions, indefinite incarceration and brutality. Israel has become a global leader in spying technology and defence hardware, which fuels the globe’s most brutal conflicts. As ethno-nationalism grows in the 21st century, Israel has built the ultimate model.

Koketso Moeti is the founder and executive director of Amandla.mobi and has a longstanding background in civic activism. She has worked – very successfully –  at the intersection of governance, communication and people power. Moeti is focused on connecting people in critical moments to take targeted, coordinated and strategic action for real change. In 2021, she was announced as an inaugural Collective Action in Tech Fellow. She is an inaugural Obama Foundation Fellow, an Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity and an Aspen New Voices Senior Fellow.

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