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Therapy is Political Speaker Series featuring Shaza Abu Dayah
2026-06-12 09:00 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Join us live from Gaza for a conversation with Shaza Abu Dayah: Psychologist, Writer, and Journalist.

Please join us for a live talk with Gaza-based psychologist and writer Shaza Abu Dayah. Shaza will share her reflections on trauma, resilience, meaning-making, and redefining the role of the therapist within the context of an ongoing genocide. She’ll speak about “the limitations of traditional mental health models when applied to a violently colonial reality, and how practitioners can become more aware of the political and ethical dimensions of their work.” She’ll also explore “forms of support and solidarity that move beyond the individual level toward a more collective responsibility”. You don’t want to miss Shaza’s powerful message!

The Beauty of Tatreez: Exploring Palestinian Embroidery and Dress
2026-06-15 10:30 - 12:30
Embroidery as language: trace how Palestinian women stitched village identity, lineage, and land into the thobe…

CLASS DESCRIPTION
Until the mid-twentieth century, the dress of the Palestinian people was descriptive of identity; by societal segment (city dweller, villager or bedouin), and by the region in which the wearer came. Within each regional style, finer distinctions in women’s dress (thobe) were expressed that shared the maker’s life and the natural world around her. Palestinian women recorded their identity in their thobe with embroidery (tatreez) through a shared illustrative language of embroidered patterns, stitching techniques and thread colors. The thobe records unwritten stories and serves as a visual register of collective and individual identities, documenting a woman’s village, tribe or town, her marital status, her familial lineage, and the material impact of colonialism, occupation, war and exile. The regional identity of the woman defines the overall governing style of her thobe, and evidence of identity is largely through her embodiment of land.
This lecture will discuss the regional distinctions in dress in historical Palestine during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by city, village and tribe for at least six regions, to include Ramallah, Galilee, Gaza, Bir Saba, Al Khalil, and Bethlehem.
ABOUT OUR LECTURER
Wafa Ghnaim is an art and dress historian, fashion researcher, embroiderer, educator, and the founder of the Tatreez Institute, specializing in Palestinian embroidery and adornment. She is the author of Tatreez & Tea (2016) and THOBNA (2023), with research published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the National Gallery of Singapore. A former instructor at the Smithsonian and Research Scholar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she now continues her preservation work as a Mellon Foundation Research Fellow at the Museum of the Palestinian People, and a commissioned designer for Victoria & Albert Museum’s Thread Memory: Embroidery from Palestine.

Palestine Feminist Collective: Report Launch Screening
2026-06-30 16:00 - 18:00
The Palestinian Feminist Collective is excited to announce our launch event for our forthcoming report with Progressive International, titled “A Predatory State: Israeli Systemic Sexualized and Gendered Violence.”
This historic, groundbreaking 200-page report exposes the relationship between Israel’s sexualized and gendered violence against Palestinians, including the systematic targeting of reproductive health and freedom, the desecration of martyred bodies, the assault on Palestinians’ homes, forced separations of Palestinian families, and the use of AI to facilitate domicide. Speakers include Hadeel Shatara, Aaron Maté, and Tara Al-Alami.
Watch our livestream on June 30, 2026, at 7 pm EST.
Where: https://bit.ly/PfcReportLivestream
When: June 30, 2026, at 7 pm EST
This report comes at a time when it is crucial that we acknowledge and act against Israel’s historical and present use of systemic sexualized and gendered violence. We must all stand up against Israel’s predatory actions against Palestinians as we fight for the total liberation of Palestine.

Discover the History of Palestine: An Interactive Zoom Presentation.
2026-07-08 17:30 - 19:00
Join us for an engaging journey through the modern history of Palestine, from the British Mandate period to the Second Intifada.This immersive presentation is inspired by A Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict by renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappé.
Presented by one of our own SAWA SoCal high school students in collaboration with the People’s Center for Palestine, this session offers an accessible introduction to key historical events and perspectives that continue to shape the region today.
Date: Wednesday, July 8
Time: 5:30 PM (PST) Location: Zoom
Scan the QR code to register.
The Zoom link will be emailed to registered participants prior to the presentation.
All ages are welcome, with content especially recommended for middle school and high school students.
This presentation also serves as an excellent introduction to the curriculum developed for Camp Palestine.

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JVP Health Advisory Council webinar: Palantir in Our Hospitals
2026-07-12 10:00 - 11:30
JVP Health Advisory Council webinar 7/12
Palantir in Our Hospitals: How the company powering the Gaza genocide and ICE surveillance is rapidly expanding into healthcare
Featuring speakers from American Friends Service Committee, No Palantir in the NHS campaign, and National Nurses United
Date: Sunday, July 12, 2026
Time: 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern
Brief description: The same company enabling Israel’s genocide in Gaza and powering ICE’s surveillance systems now manages 1 in 5 U.S. hospital beds. Join us to learn about Palantir’s rapid expansion into the healthcare sector and what we can do to stop it.
Did you know that Palantir uses multiple company names for their products and you may already be using Palantir???
sign up, just click on events on the tab at the top. https://www.jvphealth.org/events
