Two-State Solution Debate

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Gideon Levy



Gideon Levy (Hebrew: גדעון לוי, pronounced [ɡidˈʔon leˈvi]; born 1953) is an Israeli journalist and author. Levy writes opinion pieces and a weekly column for the newspaper Haaretz that often focus on the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. Levy has won prizes for his articles on human rights in the Israeli-occupied territories. In 2021, he won Israel's top award for journalism, the Sokolov Award.

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Yiftah Curiel is an Israeli diplomat in Guatemala City, Guatemala, a Central American country south of Mexico.

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Sam Sussman is a writer whose work has won the BAFTA New Writing Award, Oxford Review of Books Short Fiction Prize, and appeared in Harper’s. His debut novel, Boy From the North Country, will be published by Penguin Press in summer 2025.

Sam has lived in Jerusalem, Berlin, and New York and holds degrees from Swarthmore and Oxford. He has taught fiction seminars in India, South America, and the U.K.

Sam Sussman was a University of Oxford, Department of Politics and International Relations, Graduate Student
Swarthmore College, Political Science, Undergraduate

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Padraig O'Malley (born 1942 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish international peacemaker, author, and professor. O'Malley specializes in the problems of divided societies, such as South Africa and Northern Ireland. He has written extensively on these subjects and has been actively involved in promoting dialogue among representatives of differing factions. He's currently the John Joseph Moakley Distinguished Professor of Peace and Reconciliation at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

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Raphael Cohen-Almagor (born 1961) is an Israeli/British academic.

Cohen-Almagor received his D.Phil. in political theory from Oxford University in 1991, and his B.A. and M.A. from Tel Aviv University (both magna cum laude). In 1992–1995 he lectured at the Hebrew University Law Faculty. In 1995–2007 he taught at the University of Haifa Law School, Department of Communication, and Library and Information Studies University of Haifa. In 2019, he was distinguished visiting professor to the Faculty of Laws, University College London (UCL). In 2023, he is the Olof Palme Visiting Professor at Lund University, Sweden.

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British-Palestinian Barrister

Salma Karmi-Ayyoub is a criminal barrister and external consultant for the Palestinian human rights organisation Al Haq. She acquired a post-graduate degree in law and was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2007, after which she practiced criminal law at Tooks Chambers, where she was awarded tenancy. From 2009 until 2012 Ms Karmy-Ayyoub headed an international litigation project at Al Haq and worked on cases in various jurisdictions concerning persons and companies involved in human rights abuses. Ms Karmy-Ayyoub continues to work with human rights organisations and solicitors’ firms on legal projects concerning Palestine and has a particular interest in the question of Palestine and the International Criminal Court. She is also co-chair of the British legal charity Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights.

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Ghada Karmi



Ghada Karmi (Arabic: غادة كرمي, Ghādah Karmi; born 1939) is a Palestinian-born academic, physician and author. She has written on Palestinian issues in newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian, The Nation and Journal of Palestine Studies.