The speakers at the "Reimagining Palestine" event will discuss the "ideological shifts" of Zionism, "art as resistance," and "anti-colonial struggles," and will engage in "dialogue that challenges the status quo," according to the Doha event’s website. Among the nearly 70 scholars is Shawan Jabarin, a former senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the general director of the Al-Haq organization, an Israeli-designated terrorist group. Another, Wadah Khanfar, was a local Hamas leader in Sudan.

As a senior PFLP operative, Jabarin was convicted in 1985 and was sentenced to 24 months in prison for recruiting for the terrorist group. In 2008, the Israeli Supreme Court described him as "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" for serving with Al-Haq while moonlighting with the PFLP, the Jerusalem Post reported.

Al-Haq bills itself as a human rights group focused on violations in Gaza. Israel designated the group as a terrorist organization in 2021, labeling it "an inseparable arm" of the PFLP that operates "on its behalf and upon its instructions as part of the terror organization's struggle against Israel."