Public Meeting – “The Industry of Silence: the ongoing Nakba and the racialisation of Palestinians”, with Dr Zahira Jaser.
Date/Time
Date(s) - 20 Nov 2025
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Public Meeting hosted by Brighton & Hove Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Thursday 20 November, 7pm-9pm
Friends Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton, BN1 1AF
Dr Zahira Jaser will explain how Palestinians are dehumanised through the global industry of silence, a web of racializing organisations which ensure that Palestinians are always watched and surveilled, but never seen in their suffering and never heard as humans. Racialisation is a historical process rooted in the Zionist settler-colonial project which underpins the Nakba, the ongoing process of dehumanisation, demobilisation, fragmentation, and ultimately, erasure of the Palestinian people.
She will demonstrate how, through the industry of silence, the Nakba extends beyond Israel into the ‘Western’ world, to organisations in Europe and the U.S. so that when we are afraid to speak for Palestine, that’s the Nakba amongst us!
Dr Zahira Jaser is an Italian-Palestinian academic. Her research focuses on leadership, voice and silence. Her work has been featured in prestigious outlets such as Science, the Financial Times as well as several academic journals. Lately, she has focused on informing and shaping the dialogue around anti-Palestinian racism within academia and society.