No Tech For Apartheid: Panel
2023-11-27 11:30 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Virtual
Join us in a series of discussions with an amazing group of scholars, journalists and activists to learn about tech enabled Israeli apartheid, the history of tech workers in both enabling and dismantling apartheid, and what you can do to support Palestinians.

***Register through Ticket Tailor to receive a link to the live-streamed video on the day of the event. This event will also be recorded and captioning will be provided.***
Speakers:
Caroline Hunter co-founded the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement.
Marwa Fatafta leads Access Now’s policy & advocacy work on digital rights in MENA region.
Mona Shtaya is Campaigns & Partnerships Manager (MENA) and Corporate Engagement Lead at Digital Action. She was also advocacy & communications manager at 7amleh.
Ariel Koren was pushed out of Google for advocacy on the #NoTechForAparthied and Drop Nimbus campaigns.
Antony Loewenstein is the author of The Palestine Laboratory.
Matt Mahmoudi is Researcher/Adviser on Artificial Intelligence & Human Rights at Amnesty Tech, and co-author of Digital Witness. He is a professor at University of Cambridge.
Timnit Gebru (moderator) is the founder and executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR). Prior to that she was fired by Google in December 2020 for raising issues of discrimination in the workplace, where she was serving as co-lead of the Ethical AI research team.
Alex Hanna (moderator) is Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). A sociologist by training, her work centers on the data used in new computational technologies, and the ways in which these data exacerbate racial, gender, and class inequality.
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This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) and is part of Until Liberation: A Series for Palestine by Haymarket Books cosponsored by Palestinian American Organizations Network, Mondoweiss, Spectre, Dissenters, Tempest, Palestine Deep Dive, The New Arab, and more. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work. A portion of the proceeds from this event will be donated to Palestine Legal and Respond Crisis Translation

The Legacies of Edward W Said: Academic Praxis and the Question of Palestine: online panel discussion
2023-11-29 07:30 - 09:00 | Virtual
Sijal Institute invites you to join the upcoming online panel discussion in partnership with TWAILR entitled “The Legacies of Edward W Said: Academic Praxis and the Question of Palestine.”
Register via the link in our bio
يدعوكم معهد سجال لحضور حلقة نقاشية باللغة الإنجليزية عبر الإنترنت بالتعاون مع Third World Approaches to International Law Review (TWAILR) عنوانها“The Legacies of Edward W Said: Academic Praxis and the Question of Palestine”.
نرجو التسجيل لمن يرغب بالحضور عبر هذا الرابط (يمكن إيجاده على صفحتنا الرئيسية أيضًا):
https://rb.gy/kh3j6b

Author Meets BookTok: Sim Kern and Rashid Khalidi on “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine”
2023-12-04 07:00 - 08:30 | Virtual
10am EST / 3pm GMT / 5pm Gaza
Register: https://tinyurl.com/msmdep3u
Join us for this can’t miss event: Sim Kern in conversation with Rashid Khalidi, author of the New York Times bestseller, and Booktok favorite, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017. Hosted by Librarians and Archivists with Palestine, we will explore Palestinian history, learn about Gaza’s place in it, and how history can help all of us, especially book influencers, meet this moment of mobilization against genocide and war. We are proud to host this event as part of Read Palestine Week.
This event will be recorded.

PFC Teach In: War on the Diaspora
2023-12-10 17:00 - 18:30
We are a hosting a teach-in on the ongoing history of violence and repression on the Palestinian/Arab community in the U.S. We look at this violence as part of the larger imperial, supremacist, colonial Western strategy in the region. We’ll discuss surveillance, violence, censorship and more.
Watch the Livestream Here

The Palestinian Revolution: Then and Now: A Two-Part Study
2023-12-15 18:00 - 20:00 | Register for Location
Join PYM and PSL on December 15th from 6-8pm for a two-part study of Ghassan Kanafani’s book: The Revolution of 1936-1939 in Palestine, a foundational analysis of Palestinian resistance from one of Palestine’s most influential voices. Come prepared to engage in a discussion and connect with your community about Palestinian liberation! 🇵🇸🇵🇸
Registration required!
Visit bit.ly/Kanafani or screenshot this post and view it in your photos, and scan! See you there!

Author Talk: Israel and Gaza in the News
2023-12-29 18:30 - 20:30 | Ada’s Technical Books and Cafe, 425 15th Avenue East, Seattle, Washington, 98112
The fast-paced news cycle coupled with demands from social media to “pick a side” have confused audiences trying to follow the events in Israel and Gaza. This talk aims to provide context behind popular circulating narratives and tools for detecting misinformation.
This talk will be hosted by Sara Shaban, author of Iranian Feminism and Transnational Ethics in Media Discourse.
About the Author: Sara Shaban identifies as a critical/cultural scholar focused on the intersections between media, women’s social movements, and geopolitics in the Middle East. Shaban’s academic work is rooted within the theoretical frameworks of transnationalism and femonationalism. Her award-winning research is published in the International Journal of Communication, Communication and Critical Cultural Studies, and Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism.
Prior to life in academia, Shaban worked in U.S. local news as a producer before pursuing freelance journalism in Israel, the West Bank, and Sierra Leone. Shaban is fueled by her passion for social justice, specifically for immigrants and refugees. She was involved in initiatives to improve conditions for incoming refugees during the 2015 crisis and served as a volunteer and board member for the Immigrant and Refugee Women’s Program in St. Louis. Additionally, she served as the communications director for the St. Louis based NGO Project Peanut Butter — an organization committed to the eradication of child malnutrition throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
Free to Attend
in the Programming Room

Curious About Gaza: Virtual Discussion
2024-01-07 15:00 - 17:00 | Virtual
Curious About Gaza?
Join us for an online panel discussion on Sun Jan 07 2024 at 15:00:00 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time) .
After registering here and before the event date, you will receive an email with more information about how to join us online.

We will share the Palestinian Peace Perspective, in light of the crisis that has continued since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. Discussion will provide insight into the 75 year conflict and how we arrived where we are today. Panelists will include a Muslim Palestinian, a Christian Palestinian, a secular Jew, and an observant Jew. There will be opportunity for questions after the panel presentation.
We will deepen our understanding and awareness of the situation in occupied Gaza
in order to combat misinformation and censorship regarding what is happening to the
Palestinian people and the roots of the conflict.
Inquiries to CuriousAboutGaza@gmail.com

In Conversation: Sophia Al-Maria and Arbella Bet-Shlimon
2024-01-11 17:30 - 19:30 | Henry Art Gallery, 15th Avenue NE + NE 41st Street, Seattle, WA, 98195, United States
Join us for an evening with artist Sophia Al-Maria in conversation with University of Washington Williams Family Endowed Associate Professor in History, Arbella Bet-Shlimon. Al-Maria is a Qatari-American artist, writer, and filmmaker whose current Henry exhibition, Not My Bag, interrogates histories of colonial authority in contemporary culture. Bet-Shlimon’s teaching and research focuses on the politics, society, and economy of twentieth-century Iraq and the broader Persian Gulf region, as well as Middle Eastern urban history.
Through sharing of personal stories and literary, journalistic, and scholarly references that have been crucial to their work, Al-Maria and Bet-Shlimon will explore how historical fiction and a critical study of histories can be acts of dissent while looking toward global social change.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Sophia Al-Maria has had solo exhibitions at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Qatar; the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow; the Tate Britain, London; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; among other institutions. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London; LUMA Arles, France; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the New Museum, New York; the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy; and numerous other venues. She has been writer in residence at the Whitechapel Gallery, London. She is the author of three books: Sad Sack (Book Works, London, 2019), Virgin with a Memory (Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester, 2014), and The Girl Who Fell to Earth (Harper Perennial, New York, 2012).

Arbella Bet-Shlimon is a historian of the modern Middle East. In her research and teaching she focuses on the politics, society, and economy of twentieth-century Iraq and the broader Persian Gulf region, as well as Middle Eastern urban history. Among others her teaching has been recognized by the UW’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Bet-Shlimon’s first book, City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk (Stanford University Press, 2019), explores how oil and urbanization made ethnicity into a political practice in Kirkuk, a multilingual city that was the original hub of Iraq’s oil industry.

Discussion: Intersection of Global Struggles for Liberation
2024-01-26 13:00 - 15:00 | Evergreen State College, 2700 Evergreen Pkwy NW, Olympia, WA, 98505
The Reinterpreting Liberation program and the Center for Community-Based Learning and Action (CCBLA) at The Evergreen State College present a discussion about how global struggles for liberation intersect.

With a focus on the genocide in Gaza, Nada Elia and Jesse Hagopian will discuss how global struggles for liberation intersect and how this informs their work as activists and educators. This event, which is open to the community, is moderated by Jen Marlowe, founder of DonkeySaddle Projects, author, and filmmaker.

Jesse Hagopian has been an educator for over twenty years and taught for over a decade at Seattle’s Garfield High School, the site of the historic boycott of the MAP test. He is an editor for the social justice periodical Rethinking Schools and the book More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing. He is a co-editor of Black Lives Matter at School, Teaching for Black Lives, Teacher Unions and Social Justice, and an organizer with the Black Lives Matter at School movement. In 2011, Jesse participated in the Interfaith Peace Builder’s historic first African Heritage Delegation that brought 14 African Americans to Israel and Palestine to meet with civil society organizations, human rights groups, and grassroots activists to better understand the conflict. Jesse will join the panel over Zoom.

Nada Elia teaches Arab American Studies and Cultural Studies at Fairhaven College, WWU, where she is affiliated with the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program. A scholar-activist, Nada is a member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective, and regularly publishes editorials about gender, activism, and transnational struggles. She is the author of Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine. She has co-edited Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader, the INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence Activist Toolkit, and the award-winning The Revolution Will Not Be Funded, and has contributed chapters to numerous anthologies, including, most recently, Palestine: A Socialist Introduction. T

lack Palestinian Solidarity: Struggle for
Joint Liberation
Friday, January 26
1:00-3:00PM
Purce Hall 1 – The Evergreen State College

The ICJ, Biden Lawsuit and Conditioning U.S. Military Funding to Israel
2024-01-30 07:00 - 09:00 | Virtual
Our first briefing – “The ICJ, Biden Lawsuit and Conditioning U.S. Military Funding to Israel” – is co-sponsored by the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU), +972 Magazine and Jewish Currents and will take place Tuesday, January 30 at 10:00 am ET. A panel of experts will unpack legal efforts to hold Israel to account for human rights violations in Gaza and explore the latest efforts on Capitol Hill to condition U.S. military funding to Israel.
You can register for the event here.
The briefing comes after a pivotal week in ongoing efforts to halt Israel’s destruction of Gaza and its people. Tomorrow, the ICJ is scheduled to respond to South Africa’s request for provisional measures in its case against Israel. Meanwhile, in a courtroom on the other side of the Atlantic, plaintiffs will testify before a U.S. federal court in the case of Defense for Children International – Palestine v. Biden, a lawsuit against senior Biden administration officials for their failure to prevent, and for their complicity in, the Israeli government’s unfolding genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
I look forward to moderating the briefing with our speakers, who include:

Chantal Meloni, a criminal lawyer and professor at the Università degli Studi di Milano Statale, Italy who represents victims in Palestine before the International Criminal Court. She is a senior legal advisor to the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights for the program International Crimes and Accountability.

Diala Shamas, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, which is representing the plaintiffs in Defense for Children International – Palestine v. Biden.

Matt Duss, executive vice-president at the Center for International Policy and former foreign policy advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders.

Amjad Iraqi, a senior editor at +972 Magazine and policy member of the think tank Al-Shabaka.

Please join us on Tuesday, January 30, from 10:00-11:00 am ET. Click here to register. The briefing will be on-the-record and conducted virtually. A Zoom link will be provided upon registration.

Lecture: The Question of Palestine and the Evolution of Solidarity and Resistance in the U.S
2024-01-30 17:00 - 18:30 | UW – HUB, 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA, 98195, United States
Join us for The Question of Palestine and the Evolution of Solidarity and Resistance in the U.S., a talk and discussion featuring Karam Dana, Alyson McGregor Distinguished Professor of Excellence and Transformative Research University of Washington – Bothell, as part of our War in the Middle East Lecture Series on the aftermath of Oct. 7, the war in Gaza and responses worldwide. RSVP here. Walk-ups welcome. This is an in-person event with a livestream option.
This event is free and open to the public.
About the speaker
Karam Dana is an Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell. His research examines Palestinian political identity and the impact of Israeli occupation on Palestinian society. He also studies American Muslims, how they are racialized, and what affects their political participation in the US. Professor Dana is the Director of the American Muslim Research Institute (AMRI), and the principal investigator of two ongoing projects: The Middle East Public Opinion Project (MEPOP), and the Muslim American Public Opinion Survey (MAPOS). His articles are widely published in leading social science and interdisciplinary journals on the Question of Palestine and American Muslims.
Tuesday, Jan. 30 | Husky Union Building (HUB) 211B-South Ballroom
Time: 5:00-6:20 p.m.
Title: The Question of Palestine and the Evolution of Solidarity and Resistance in the U.S.
Speaker: Karam Dana (UW Bothell)
RSVP here

This event has a livestream option. To watch it, click here.

Voices of Women Under Occupation: Panel
2024-01-31 09:00 - 10:30
Join Eyewitness Palestine on Wednesday, January 31st at 12 noon ET for our Voices of Women Under Occupation, featuring a variety of women speakers who will share stories about their lives under Israeli occupation. During this webinar, you will also hear from advocates who work with the Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling (WCLAC). WCLAC is responsible for the only women’s shelter in Palestine and has helped provide resources and counseling to women throughout historic Palestine.
Participation in this event is free as Eyewitness Palestine is seeking to highlight voices in Palestine as broadly as possible. Donations are appreciated. 50% of all proceeds will go to WCLAC

K-12: Curriculum Share w/ Teaching While Muslim and NYC Educators for Palestine
2024-02-03 07:00 - 09:00 | Virtual
On February 3rd from 10AM-12PM Teaching While Muslim and NYC Educators for Palestine will be hosting a virtual “curriculum share” geared to K-12 classroom teachers. At this session, teachers will have the opportunity to present and share original lessons and materials they have developed on topics such as Palestinian history, the history of Israeli occupation, and the ongoing genocide in Gaza–every teacher who attends the curriculum share will leave with a collection of lessons they can use with their students.
Our hope is that by creating space to share resources and build meaningful connections, that we can empower each other to serve as changemakers within our individual schools. We especially want to highlight the incredible work educators are doing right now to combat hate, misinformation, and misunderstanding during this critical time. If you are an educator who has developed a lesson around Palestinian history, or the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and you’d like to present it to other teachers on February 3rd, please fill in the form below! Generous humans who donate lessons will be contacted by event organizers to answer questions and provide further details.
Teaching While Muslim and NYC Educators for Palestine will highlight the incredible work educators are doing right now to combat hate, misinformation, and misunderstanding during this critical time.
RSVP HERE to attend this free, virtual event.

Live from Gaza: Arts for Survival webinar
2024-03-13 09:00 - 10:30 | Virtual
Join Eyewitness Palestine on Wednesday, March 13th at 12PM ET for our Live from Gaza: Arts for Survival webinar, in partnership with the Delia Arts Foundation located in the Gaza Strip. This webinar will feature Gaza’s program manager, Ayman Jamal Mghamis, who is based in Gaza. Delia Arts Foundation’s Executive Director, Joelle Khayat, will also be joining the webinar to discuss the ways Delia Arts is shifting their work in the midst of genocide to support artists.
Participation in this event is free as Eyewitness Palestine is seeking to highlight voices in Palestine as broadly as possible. Donations are appreciated and 50% of monies raised will support the Delia Arts Foundation.

ISRAELISM: Film Screening
2024-03-16 19:15 - 21:00 | Tacoma Community College, 6501 South 19th Street, Tacoma, WA, 98466, United States
ISRAELISM” Film Screening and
Q&A with the Creators

Saturday, March 16, 7:15 PM
Tacoma Community College
6501 South 19th Street, Tacoma
Auditorium in Building 2, off South 12th Street

This is a timely screening of a documentary about the experiences of two American Jews and their subsequent ‘unlearning’ of unconditional support for Israel and the negation of all things Palestinian.

Following the film, there will be a discussion and Q&A with Erin Axelman, the film’s director, and Simone Zimmerman, one of two people featured in the documentary. Zimmerman is also a co-founder of If Not Now.

The Rachel Corrie Foundation is pleased to cosponsor this event, which is hosted and sponsored by our colleagues at Jewish Voice for Peace-Tacoma.
The film and presentation are free and open to the public. For more information, find the event on Facebook.

Online Film Salon Discussion: Films on "Hydropolitics"
2024-03-17 12:00 - 15:00 | Virtual
Register: Tinyurl.com/VFHL-March2024Watch the films at your convenience!
Join the panel at 12pm!

www.voicesfromtheholyland.org/salonrecordings

Invitation to an Online Film Salon
Sunday March 17, 2024

Controlling the supply, distribution, and cost of water to an occupied people is apartheid in action. Israel, through legal and illegal means, maintains near-complete control over the region’s freshwater aquifers, severely restricting Palestinians’ abilities to drill wells, install pumps, build water tanks, or even collect rainwater. The average Israeli consumes over 3 times the water used by Palestinian on the water grid in the West Bank (9 times the water used by those off the grid). West Bank Palestinians pay 1/3 or more of their income to Israeli companies for drinking water. Meanwhile, Gazans are now consuming less than 3 liters per day—hardly enough for survival.
VFHL offers three short videos describing the “hydropolitics” and structural water apartheid in the Holy Land. Our panel discussion will explore designed inequalities in water distribution; the physical, economic and regulatory controls; as well as the ecological problems of pollution and over-extraction
Watch the videos for free at your convenience; Join the Q&A Discussion with:
Nancy Murray–Co-founder of Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine
Mazin Qumsiyeh–Director of the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability
Eyal Hareuveni–Author, Parched: Israel’s Policy of Water Deprivation in the West Bank
Jeff Halper (Moderator) – Israeli-American anthropologist, author, lecturer, and political activist; founder of Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)
You must register to join the discussion & receive access to the film: Tinyurl.com/VFHL-March2024
Watch the Trailer: Tinyurl.com/VFHL-March2024Trailer
How this will work:
1 – Register here for the Voices from the Holy Land Online Film Salon:
Tinyurl.com/VFHL-March2024
2 – Once you register, you will get a confirmation email from Zoom with a link to the meeting and a link with to watch the film. (Save this confirmation letter as the meeting link is unique to your email and you must have this to participate.)
3 – Watch the film at your convenience before the event. Then join us with your thoughts and questions for our speakers at the Q&A Discussion on Sunday March 17, 2024 at 3 pm ET/ 12 noon PT.
Please share this announcement with your friends, family, and community. Download the event flyer and post it to your social media.
Download the event flyer here. (Download the jpg version here)
Download information about the Panelists and moderator here. (Download the jpg version here)
Don’t forget to watch recordings of previous Online Film Salon recordings in their entirety here, including for the January 21, 2023 Online Film Salon on Israelism. An article in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs on the December Salon can be found here. Also read an article on the November 2023 Salon on Marketing the Occupation – Part Two: Media and the Palestine Problem in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. Here is an article on the July Salon on My Tree inMondoweiss here.
The March 2024 VFHL Online Film Salon is co-sponsored by
Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine
Progressive Workers Union – Palestine Solidarity Group

Ceasefire and Beyond: What's Happening in Palestine/Israel & Its Impact Q&A
2024-03-19 18:00 - 19:30 | Virtual
Tuesday, March 19
FROM PJALS IN SPOKANE
Ceasefire and Beyond: What’s Happening in Palestine/Israel & Its Impact Q&A
6:00-7:30 PM
A virtual event
The Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane (PJALS) invites you to participate in this facilitated Q&A session with Sabrene Odeh and Alice Rothchild, both Pacific Northwest peace advocates with extensive knowledge of the present situation in Palestine and Israel and its history.

Sabrene Odeh is the co-founder of Baladna, an organization created for Palestinian community, organizing, and advocacy. Alice Rothchild is a Jewish activist, author, and retired obstetrician who has supported health care efforts in Gaza and now serves on the Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) Health Advisory Council.

Read more about the event and register here. Participants are encouraged to submit questions ahead of time and to actively engage during the webinar.

USCPR Action Phone Zap: DISRUPTING CAMPAIGN EVENTS
2024-03-20 11:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Join USCPR Action on Wednesday, March 20 to mobilize our masses calling Congress and to learn how to disrupt campaign events. On the Zoom call, you’ll hear a case study on how to disrupt a politician’s event to force the demand to stop arming Israel onto their agenda. We’ll also be mobilizing to defend Rafah and to stop “THE DEADLY DEAL,” a $95 bilion spending package that just passed the Senate and now heads to the House. The Deadly Deal includes $14 billion in weapons to Israel for arming genocide, and the elimination of all humanitarian funding to the UNRWA aid agency for Palestinian refugees, permanently. At 2 PM ET / 11 AM PT, we’ll flood Congress’s phone lines together to let them know we’re watching as the U.S. government continues to back Israel’s horrific massacres and forced starvation of Palestinians in Gaza. Demand that your elected officials call for a PERMANENT CEASEFIRE NOW and stop arming Israel! Join us this Wednesday, March 20 at 2 PM ET.

Webinar: Health Crisis in Gaza
2024-03-24 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual
HEALTH CRISIS IN GAZA
A virtual event
by the JVP Health Advisory Council
Sunday, March 24
10:00AM

Join the Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council for a webinar on the Health Crisis in Gaza, featuring Dr. Thaer Ahmad and Dr. John Kahler, who have recently returned from working in Gaza.

Dr Ahmad is an emergency room physician and assistant program director for the Advocate Christ Emergency Medicine Residency Program in Chicago. In Gaza, he volunteered at the Al Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

Dr. Kahler is a pediatrician and cofounder of the MedGlobal project in Gaza. He has worked in Shifa Hospital in Gaza City and in hospitals and primary health centers in Khan Yunis and Rafah. He is currently working to set up a primary health center and small clinics in shelters, focused on nutrition.

Register now for the webinar on Zoom.

Eyewitness Palestine: Live from Lyd Webinar
2024-03-27 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
Join Eyewitness Palestine on Wednesday, March 27th at 12PM ET for our Live from Lyd webinar, featuring a special virtual delegation led by Tamer Nafar, who will take us around Lyd on a custom tour of the city. Lyd, like many Palestinian cities, is an ancient city that’s been home to multiple civilizations over its 5,000-year history. It was the site of one of the most grueling massacres of the Nakba and remains haunted by the injustices brought on to it. Today, the community of Lyd–one of the few cities with an integrated Palestinian and Israeli Jewish population–is marred by addiction and gun violence. We’ll hear from Lyd residents about the resilience and struggles they face in the community.

Sumaya Awad: Adalah Justice Project
2024-04-04 16:00 - 17:00 | University of Washington – Communications Building, UW Campus, Seattle, WA, 98195, United States

Palestinian Seed Stories: To Eat Alone is to Die Alone — Herban Cura
2024-05-01 14:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
Palestinian Seed Stories: To Eat Alone is to Die Alone — Herban Cura
with Vivien Sansour Oftentimes when Palestinian farmers put seeds in the ground, they mutter a quiet prayer, “may we eat and may we feed others.” This and many other linguistically profound sayings provide a lens into a cultural design based on the idea that our survival as individuals is connect
www.herbancura.com
FYI this online event 3-5pm tomorrow sounds great. @Tareq
https://www.herbancura.com/knowledge-shares/to-eat-alone-is-to-die-alone

Jerusalem Story: Virtual Event
2024-05-02 09:30 - 10:30 | Virtual
Jerusalem Story tells the story of a unique city through a new lens—that of the city’s large and diverse indigenous Palestinian community.
This community has deep historic roots in Jerusalem and holds the strongest attachment to and love for their city. Yet, they have been subjected to unrelenting efforts to erase their presence in, and potential claim to, the city—past, present, and future—in the service of cementing Israel’s imperative of claiming sole sovereignty in perpetuity over a “united Jewish Jerusalem.” Against this ongoing effort to erase the Palestinian cultural and community history as well as severing connection to place, Jerusalem Story is reasserting the Palestinian presence.
SPEAKERS:
Kate Rouhana
Founding Director, Jerusalem Story
Kate Rouhana is a writer, editor, and researcher.She has lived and worked as a journalist and researcher in Jerusalem and elsewhere in Palestine several times throughout her life. She holds an MA in Middle Eastern Studies and a BA in International Relations, both from Harvard University.
Amina Abdulhaq
Researcher/Writer, Jerusalem Story
Amina Abdulhaq is a human rights lawyer and a researcher. Her family has deep historic roots in Jerusalem. Her work focuses on Jerusalem, women, and gender. Amina is fully devoted to raising all oppressed people’s voices, inclusively embracing diversities and uniqueness.
Arda Aghazarian
Writer, Jerusalem Story
Arda Aghazarian is a communications consultant with ample experience in creative and professional writing and has also worked in audiovisual production—including film and radio. Arda has delivered training, public speaking, and mentoring at key global events, mostly on issues related to women and conflict, identity, language, and narrative.
Nadim Bawalsa
Researcher/Writer, Jerusalem Story
Nadim Bawalsa is a historian of modern Palestine and author of Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return before 1948 (Stanford University Press, 2022).. Bawalsa’s work has also appeared in the Jerusalem Quarterly, NACLA Report on the Americas, Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network, the Journal of Palestine Studies, and in two edited volumes. Bawalsa earned a PhD in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies from NYU in 2017, and an MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University in 2010. In addition to his work with Jerusalem Story, Bawalsa is associate editor at the Journal of Palestine Studies.

Centering Palestine: Narratives Challenging Injustice
2024-05-04 16:00 - 20:00 | Kane Hall – University of Washington, 4069 Spokane Ln 98105, Seattle, WA, 98105, United States
Join us for an evening of uplifting voices and stories that challenge dominant narratives on injustice. Our esteemed speakers Miko Peled and Karam Dana will share their experiences and analyses that provide nuance and context for the Palestinian struggle.
This thought-provoking event will go beyond surface-level discourse to build greater understanding and solidarity. All ticket proceeds will cover event and venue expenses. Any additional profits will be donated to charity.
This is a rare opportunity to listen, ask questions, and engage with realities in Palestine. Together, we can confront oppression and reimagine paths toward justice. Your attendance and support makes this event possible.

Lecture: Humanitarian Genocide? Political Economy of Palestine’s Pacification
2024-05-09 16:00 - 17:30 | UW – Allen Library, 4000 15th Ave NE, Seattle, WA, 98195
“Humanitarian Genocide? Political Economy of Palestine’s Pacification”
A Lecture by Toufic Haddad

Thursday, May 9, 4:00pm
Peterson Room, 4th Floor (Room 485), Allen Library North, University of Washington Seattle

Toufic Haddad is a Palestinian academic and author of Palestine Ltd the author of Palestine Ltd: Neoliberalism and Nationalism in the Occupied Territory (I.B. Tauris, 2016). He holds a PhD in Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies. Before his doctorate, Haddad worked in various capacities across the Occupied Palestinian Territories as a journalist, editor, publisher and researcher for various UN agencies.

Sponsored by the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, Department of American Ethnic Studies, Department of Comparative History of Ideas, and Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies.

Moon-Ho Jung (he/him)
Professor of History
Harry Bridges Endowed Chair in Labor Studies
University of Washington

Resistance and Repression Discussion and Q&A
2024-05-29 19:00 - 20:30 | Contact Host for Location Details
What: Join Samidoun Seattle for a panel and conversation on the increased repression we are facing in occupied Palestine and here in the U.S. along with the increased support for Palestinian liberation across the world. Our panel includes author and journalist Mariam Barghouti and Nizar Mansour, a longtime Palestinian activist in the community, and Samidoun Seattle organizer Bissan Barghouti.
More info and registration link: tinyurl.com/samidoun531

Free Film Screening: Israelism
2024-06-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Edmonds Theater, 415 Main St, Edmonds, WA, 98020
Two young American Jews travel to Israel seeking a deeper understanding of the country they were raised to love. What they encounter profoundly impacts them, leading them to join a growing movement to redefine their community’s relationship with Israel in this challenging and emotional journey. Join us for the free screening of this film.
About the film
Two young American Jews – Simone Zimmerman and Eitan – are raised to defend the state of Israel at all costs. Eitan joins the Israeli military. Simone supports Israel on ‘the other battlefield:’ America’s college campuses. When they witness Israel‘s mistreatment of the Palestinian people with their own eyes, they are horrified and heartbroken.
They join the movement of young American Jews battling the old guard over Israel’s centrality in American Judaism, and demanding freedom for the Palestinian people. Their stories reveal a generational divide in the American Jewish community as more young Jews question the narratives their synagogues and Hebrew school teachers fed them as children.
The film also features voices like Jacqui, a Jewish educator who says “Judaism is Israel and Israel is Judaism”, and former Anti-Defamation League President Abe Foxman, who claims voices like Simone and Eitan’s represent a small minority. Thought leaders like Peter Beinart, Jeremy Ben-Ami, Noura Erakat, Cornel West, and Noam Chomsky also weigh in.
Directed by two first-time Jewish filmmakers who share a similar story to the film’s protagonists, Israelism is produced by Peabody-winner and 4-time Emmy-nominee Daniel J. Chalfen (Loudmouth, Boycott), executive produced by two-time Emmy-winner Brian A. Kates (Marvelous Ms. Maisel, Succession) and edited by Emmy-winner Tony Hale (The Story of Plastic), Israelism uniquely explores how Jewish attitudes towards Israel are changing dramatically, with massive consequences for the region and for Judaism itself.

Palestine Talks Teach-in Series: It's Not About Religion
2024-06-20 18:00 - 19:30 | Vibe Coworks, 19225 8th Ave NE #201, Poulsbo, WA, 98370
This is a series, occurring everything 3rd Thursday of the month until elections, ending with a Palestinian feast on December 5th. Each month is a different topic with different panel speakers, with the throughline being what is happening in Palestine.

Through knowledge sharing, panel discussions, and interactive audience discussions, participants engage in critical dialogue and community building, empowering themselves and others to become informed advocates and agents of change. Palestine Talks | Teach-in Series serve as a strategy for raising awareness, promoting education, and mobilizing action for Palestinian liberation.
Accessibility info: Large parking lot, with accessible parking. There are stairs and an elevator. Presentation with slides, and caption video recording of event available afterwards. There are snacks and water available, and “accessible bathrooms.”
Details about each month’s topic, registration link, and event organizer info can be found here: https://www.kccoalition.org/
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Targeted Truth: The Assault on Palestinian Journalists
2024-06-27 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
Join us on Thursday, June 27 at 12 p.m. EST / 7 p.m. Jerusalem for a special panel: “Targeted Truth: The Assault on Palestinian Journalists,” which highlights the work of +972 magazine.

For the last eight months, +972 Magazine has been bringing vital and critical perspectives and lesser-heard voices from Palestine/Israel and beyond. The magazine has been consistently covering Israel’s targeting of Palestinian journalists and has been working to amplify Palestinian voices from the ground to counter the efforts to erase them.

Moderated by +972 Magazine’s editor-in-chief, Ghousoon Bisharat, the event will bring views and analysis from:

Mahmoud Mushtaha, a journalist and human rights activist from Gaza City, currently living in Cairo.
Mohammed R. Mhawish, a journalist and writer from Gaza City, currently living in Cairo, and a contributor to the book “A Land With A People — Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism.”
Fatima AbdulKarim, a journalist based in Ramallah.
Shuruq As’ad, a journalist and media trainer with more than 30 years of experience, and the spokesperson of the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate.
Abd Elkader Abd Elhalim, a reporter and social media content writer at Radio Nas, a radio station based in Nazareth.

Concert of Colors Forum on Community, Culture & Race – Until Everybody’s Free: Artists for Liberation
2024-07-18 15:00 - 16:30 | Virtual
In-person at The Annex @ AANM or Online via Livestream
FREE with RSVP
Register for in-person attendance | Register for livestream
The Concert of Colors Forum on Community, Culture & Race, one of the Arab American National Museum’s signature annual events, is a dynamic gathering of artists, activists and advocates who use art and dialogue as a tool for advocacy and community building. This year’s program will be presented both in person and virtually online.
Concert of Colors, Detroit’s annual diversity festival, will be happening July 15-21! More info + full concert lineup
Meet the Keynote Speaker
Jenan A. Matari is a first-generation-born and raised, 2x award-winning Palestinian storyteller and graduate of Rutgers University, earning a B.A. in Journalism & Media Studies. To bring more diversity to the public relations and media industry, she has been recognized for her unique and thoughtfully inclusive media campaigns and was honored with the PR NEWS 2021 Asian Pioneer Award for her diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. Jenan has written content on the topic of diversity and cultural experience for outlets such as The New York Times, Mondoweiss, Elite Daily, and has been featured in mainstream media platforms such as Cosmopolitan, Allure, Buzzfeed, Huffington Post, CNN, etc. In 2017, Jenan received the Shirley Chisholm Award in the category of Journalism for outstanding representation of Muslim and minority women in the media and for being a “catalyst for change.” Today, she centers her work around content creation focused on educating an audience of millions on the lived Palestinian experience and interconnectedness of her ancestral lands and her life in the diaspora, and teaches media literacy to counteract the harm done to minority and marginalized communities by mainstream media.
Meet the Panelists
Born and raised in Seattle, Nathan Nzanga is a rising star in the world of hip-hop known for his captivating lyrics, infectious beats and undeniable charisma. Drawing inspiration from his personal experiences, as well as the struggles and triumphs of those around him, Nathan’s music serves as a powerful reflection of the human experience. With a unique blend of introspection and raw energy, Nathan’s music resonates deeply with listeners, touching on themes of love, self-discovery and social justice. His thought-provoking lyrics challenge societal norms and shed light on the issues that matter most to him, making him a voice for the voiceless. In addition to his musical prowess, Nathan is also a dynamic performer, known for his electrifying stage presence and infectious energy. His live shows are a testament to his ability to connect with his audience, creating an unforgettable experience that leaves a lasting impact.
Meet the Moderator
Khadega Mohammed is a 24-year-old Muslim Sudanese American spoken word artist. Born in Sudan and raised in Saudi Arabia, her experiences have inspired her to explore themes of spirituality, identity, belonging and home in the form of poetry. Khadega has been performing around the country for a decade and her work has been featured in various publications nationally and internationally, such as NPR, The Detroit News, AJ+ & AJ+Arabia. She has also taught spoken word workshops, most notably at Harvard University. Khadega is featured in two incredible documentaries, An Act of Worship directed by Nausheen Dadabhoy and Revolution from Afar directed by Bentley Brown. She currently resides in Michigan, where she leads community engagement work at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Mich.
