Omar Barghouti is the founder of the BDS movement and founding committee member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. He received the Gandhi Peace Award in 2017 for his decades of campaigning for an end to Israel's illegal occupation and for a free Palestine.
Nika Soon-Shiong is a publisher at DropSite News and the founder of the Fund For Guaranteed Income, and brings years of expertise on ending inequality and bringing about social justice in the US and around the world.
They join our founder Jeremy Corbyn, American filmmaker Abby Martin, Cuban ambassador Ismara Vargas Walter, What If Latin American Ruled The World? author Oscar Guardiola-Rivera and Venezuela Solidarity Campaign secretary Francisco Dominguez.
The conference will also be joined by The Gaza Tribunal panellists Prof. Neve Gordon and Dr. Shahd Hammouri, who will discuss the report, its findings and why the British government must act now to end its complicity in Israeli war crimes.
We will be announcing further updates including speakers and panels for the annual conference in the coming weeks.