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  • This House, as the Jewish American student, Would join the encampment.

    Infoslide

    The UCLA Gaza Solidarity Encampment was a pro-Palestine protest established on campus lasting from April 25th to May 2nd, 2024 as part of a nationwide student movement calling for divestment of university funds from Israel due to their actions in Gaza. It drew significant attention after violent clashes between protesters, counterprotesters, and police led to injuries and numerous arrests. You are a Jewish-American UCLA student with progressive politics coming from a middle-class background in Los Angeles. You are on campus during the time of the encampment.

    USC Mini 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-11-08

  • This house predicts Saudi Arabia will become a global superpower in the next 50 years

    Infoslide

    For the purposes of the debate, a global superpower is a nation that exerts significant international influence through socioeconomic, technological, military, and/or cultural means.

    DTU Pre-Worlds 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-11-01

  • This house, as a transgender individual in Iran, would cooperate with the government’s legal pathway for transition

    Infoslide

    In Iran, both trans men and trans women can obtain legal recognition only through a state-controlled and deeply invasive process that mandates psychiatric evaluation, court approval, and gender-affirming surgery—often involving sterilization. While the government may subsidize some of these procedures and recognized individuals receive updated documents and face less police harassment, the system reflects a long-standing institutional approach that treats trans identity within a medicalized and corrective framework.

    Kamalig Pre-NDC 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-10-04

  • TH supports the active expansion of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

    Infoslide

    The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is a regional political and economic organization originally established between China, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. It has actively expanded its membership to Iran, India and Pakistan in 2017, and to Belarus in 2024. Currently, it has 17 countries as dialogue partners and observers in the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia.

    Kontra-Korap Cup · Round 4 · 2025-10-01

  • This house believes that the Israeli airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities have done more harm than good

    Infoslide

    Between 13–24 June 2025, Israel conducted airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites including Natanz, Fordow, Isfahan, and the Arak reactor, as well as various military and government facilities. Several Iranian officials and scientists were killed.

    Vietnam Debate Open 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-08-20

  • This house prefers a world where Bush pursued military strikes against Iran

    Infoslide

    The year is 2007. Amid growing concerns over Iran’s nuclear program, the Bush administration faces pressure from Israel to take military action against Iranian nuclear sites. Two main options are considered: launching a full-scale military strike or pursuing a covert cyber operation. Ultimately, President George W. Bush rejects a military invasion and approves the development of Stuxnet, a joint U.S.-Israeli cyberattack that is meant to target Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility and delay its enrichment capabilities.

    St Andrews pre-EUDC 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-08-13

  • This house, as UK, would recognize Palestine as a sovereign state

    Infoslide

    The United Kingdom has played a key role in the origins of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict through its colonial rule and the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which supported a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Though no longer a colonial power, UK remains a significant diplomatic actor whose policies and influence continue to shape efforts toward peace in the region.

    Grassroots Debate Open Pre-NDC 2025 · Open Pre-quarterfinals · 2025-08-02

  • This house, as UK, would recognize Palestine as a sovereign state

    Infoslide

    The United Kingdom has played a key role in the origins of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict through its colonial rule and the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which supported a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Though no longer a colonial power, UK remains a significant diplomatic actor whose policies and influence continue to shape efforts toward peace in the region.

    Grassroots Debate Open Pre-NDC 2025 · Novice Pre-semifinals · 2025-08-02

  • This House believes that it is not in the interest of BARMM to initiate the campaign

    Infoslide

    The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), a recently autonomous region in the southern Philippines, has launched a solidarity campaign with Palestine. This stance differs from the national position of the Philippines on the conflict.

    5th Mindanao Novice Cup · College Finals · 2025-07-05

  • This House supports the immediate international recognition of Syria's new interim government

    Infoslide

    Syria is now under the leadership of Ahmad al-Sharaa, the head of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an Islamist militant group that played a key role in the offensive leading to the collapse of Bashar al-Assad's regime.

    Diliman Debate Open 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-07-05

  • This House, as the Ottoman Empire, would not have implemented the Tanzimat.

    Infoslide

    Tanzimat is the name given to a series of institutional reforms in the Ottoman Empire starting in 1839, aiming to modernize it and protect it from the military and economic pressure exerted by European countries, as well as to prevent its decentralization. The Tanzimat marked a shift away from a theocratic structure to introduce secularization, establish formal equality among its subjects, create a Western-style education system, and make massive investments in road infrastructure. However, the reforms also ended up worsening the fragmentation of the Empire, exacerbating ethnic tensions in the Balkans, and burdening the Ottomans with foreign debts.

    XI Torneio Temático de Debates · Semifinais · 2025-07-04

  • This house believes that it is in the interest of the Ayatollah regime to agree to the US demand to stop all Uranium enrichment.

    Infoslide

    As of May 23, 2025, the United States and Iran are engaged in their fifth round of nuclear negotiations in Rome, mediated by Oman. The central issue is Iran's uranium enrichment program. The U.S. has insisted that Iran cease all uranium enrichment activities. Conversely, Iran maintains that enrichment is a sovereign right and non-negotiable. Iran is currently enriching uranium to 60%, significantly above the 3.67% limit set by the JCPOA in 2015.

    Diliman Asian Parliamentary 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-06-23

  • This house would travel to the war as a journalist embedded into a Canadian army unit

    Infoslide

    You are a Palestinian-Canadian whose family was expelled from the West Bank 58 years ago. You recently graduated with a bachelor's in journalism. War has broken out between Iran and Israel. In the hypothetical world of this debate, American and Canadian troops are fighting on the ground alongside and behind Israeli units.

    Waterloo IV 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-06-21

  • That the US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities are in the interest of the United States

    Infoslide

    This morning, it was announced that the United States conducted strikes on 3 Iranian nuclear facilities: Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan. For the purposes of the debate, assume that US strikes conducted in the last 24hrs were the first in the series of strikes to be conducted against Iranian nuclear facilities.

    UNSW Pre-Australs 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-06-21

  • This House believes that it is in the interest of the Republican Party to impeach Donald Trump.

    Infoslide

    On June 21, 2025, the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, conducted an attack on Iran. The action can be seen as a violation of the War Powers Act, an American law that requires the president to seek permission from Congress to enter into war.

    Campeonato Mundial de Debates em Língua Portuguesa 2025 · Quartas de final · 2025-06-19