Panel 7 : Silencing Palestinian voices
Moderated byAlain Gresh, Orient XXI
The year 2023 marks a turning point in the repression of voices in favor of Palestine. While situating current dynamics within the historical trajectories of several European countries, notably Great Britain and Germany, this panel aims to give meaning to the rupture of October 7 , by analyzing the evolution of the tools of repression on both coercive and semantic levels. How is repression organized, including on a transnational scale ? What targets and arguments are used ? We'll also look at how these dynamics relate to other forms of political repression.
Thomas Vescovi
Thomas Vescovi is a doctoral student in political studies and science at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and the Université libre de Bruxelles. He is also a member of ULB'sObservatoire des Mondes Arabes et Musulmans (OMAM). He is the author of La mémoire de la nakba en Israël. Le regard de la société israélienne sur la tragédie palestinienne (2015) and L'Échec d'une utopie. A History of the Lefts in Israel (2021). He recently contributed to Gaza, une guerre coloniale (2025). Finally, he is co-founder and member of the editorial board of the Yaani research collective.
Alain Gresh
Alain Gresh is a journalist, former editor-in-chief of Le Monde Diplomatique, founder of the online journals Orient XXI and Afrique XXI, and a specialist in the Middle East, particularly the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, to which he has devoted numerous works.
