Recordings of Past Events

The Impact of the 2020 US Election Results on Middle East Policy
Nov. 12th 2020
Participants:
Sahar F. Aziz (Rutgers U. Law School); Nabeel Khoury (Atlantic Council);
Yousef Munayyer (Arab Center);
Sarah Leah Whitson (Democracy for the Arab World Now).
Sponsored by: Arab Center, Washington DC.

Jerusalem Fund. 2020 Palestine Center Annual Conference. (Nov. 7.)

Speakers: Ilan Pappe,
Mustafa Barghouti,
Nour Oder,
Ariel Gold, Rebecca Vilkomerson,
Ali Abunimah,
Ghana Kamir,
Omar Shakir.

https://thejerusalemfund.org/59111/the-2020-palestine-center-annual-conference-the-future-of-palestine
“A particularly good webinar”

• Dahlia Sheindlin’s podcast series “Settlements 360” – the final episode (episode 7), “Lara Friedman, President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace and a former US diplomat in the Middle East, examines settlements in the context of negotiations, the US role in the peace process and why negotiations have so far failed.” https://fmep.org/resource/podcast-settlements-360-the-future-are-settlements-an-obstacle-to-peace/

• IMEU/Omar Baddar podcast “This is Palestine,” on the topic of Weaponization of Antisemitism,” ft. FMEP’s Lara Friedman – listen to it here.

The Miko Peled Pocasts (Several) at https://mikopeledpodcast.podbean.com/

Independent Jewish Voices:“Defining Anti-Semitism: Freedom of Speech on British Campuses and Beyond
Kenneth Stern in conversation with Seth Anziska and Salma Karmi-Ayyoub, chaired by Jacqueline Rose.
Recording at: https://youtu.be/02H9amW7jxE
Details: https://ijv.org.uk/2020/12/01/defining-antisemitism-freedom-of-speech-on-british-campuses-and-beyond/
A discussion on the International Holocaust Rememberance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, now being rolled out under punitive financial threat to British universities should they fail to adopt it. Here Kenneth Stern, who drafted the original document from which the IHRA one derives, explains why it is not fit for purpose, in conversation with Seth Anziska, Associate Professor of Jewish-Muslim Relations at UCL and Salma Karmi-Ayyoub, barrister and chair of the British-Palestinian Policy Council.

Webinar to launch the new book Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, Edited by Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean
Recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiW_E5UTiTk&feature=youtu.be
(Find out more about the book here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1558-palestine-a-socialist-introduction.
Recommendation: “Fantastic webinar -- I highly recommend watching!”

Recording and Resources from "Impending Dispossession and the Struggle to Live in East Jerusalem: Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah," featuring Mohammed El-Kurd and Fayrouz Sharqawi and cosponsored with Just Vision.
Link: https://fmep.org/resource/impending-evictions-and-the-struggle-to-live-in-east-jerusalem-palestinians-in-sheikh-jarrah/
By The Foundation for Middle East Peace www.fmep.org
Recommendation: “The resources offered in this email are all excellent, and the interview itself worth another look even if you already know the story of the Sheikh Jarrah evictions.”
Other links:
The Real Map of Jerusalem: https://gumroad.com/l/qSdes
Resource page on Sheikh Jarrah: https://www.grassrootsalquds.net/community/sheikh-jarrah

Webinar recording "Raided and Razed: West Bank Education under Attack"
You can find a recording of the webinar here:

Participants:
Netta Amar-Shiff (human rights attorney)
Khaled Elgindy (Middle East Institute)
Priscilla Wathington (NRC)
with
Sarah Anne Minkin (FMEP)

Palestinians and human rights defenders named 2020 as one of the most violent years for Palestinians in the West Bank in recent record, including de facto annexation, escalating assaults, and evictions and home demolitions. New research from the Norwegian Refugee Council looks at the impact of occupation on Palestinian education in the West Bank, detailing “a deluge of attacks” perpetrated by Israeli forces, settlers, and settlement guards over the last 30 months. Palestinians in Area C are especially vulnerable to these attacks, which include raids on schools-in-session, physical assault of children, and damage of educational facilities. To discuss these new findings, their impact on Palestinian children, families, and educators, and potential routes to secure children’s rights to education, FMEP and NRC invite you to join us for a webinar. This discussion will feature human rights attorney Netta Amar-Shiff, Middle East Institute’s Khaled Elgindy, and NRC’s Priscilla Wathington, in conversation with FMEP’s Sarah Anne Minkin.

From the Palestine Museum (US)

A Conversation With Gideon Levy on February 28, 2021

Gideon Levy is an Israeli journalist and author who writes regularly for the newspaper Haaretz. His writings often focus on the daily lives and sufferings of ordinary Palestinians living under Israeli occupation and control in the West Bank and Gaza. His work raises sharp criticism from mainstream Israeli journalists and politicians who accuse him of being pro Palestinian and of treason.
Recording here: https://www.palestinemuseum.us/gideon-levy

Thank you for joining the End the Endless Wars Day of Action!

Our teach-in with Danny Sjursen, Kathy Kelly, Jamie Eldridge, Phyllis Bennis and Vijay Prashad, moderated by Kevin Martin, was watched by over 250 people. The sponsors were Massachusetts Peace Action, Chicago Area Peace Action, Maryland Peace Action and Peace Action Wisconsin.
Video is here
Suggested donation for the webinar program $5 donation.

Tell Congress to end our endless wars: and to bring our war dollars home: https://www.peaceaction.org/get-involved/iraq-war-anniversary-day-of-action/
Contact: Cole Harrison he/him, Executive Director
Massachusetts Peace Action - the Commonwealth's largest grassroots peace organization
11 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138
617-354-2169 w (Messages only at this time); 617-466-9274 m
www.masspeaceaction.org; Facebook: facebook.com/masspeaceaction; Twitter: @masspeaceaction IG: masspeaceaction

World Water Day webinar: ‘Water, Health and Human Rights: Marking World Water Day, from the U.S. to Palestine.’

You can view the recording here.

Many of you who did attend wanted to get a closer look at Monica Lewis-Patrick’s slides – they are here.
And here is the Water Song by the Akwesasne Women Singers that we played in closing.

And here are seven actions relevant to the work of our speakers that you can immediately take.

www.waterjusticeinpalestine.org

"Seeing Through the Wall: Meeting Ourselves in Palestine and Israel"
- a film by Anne Macksoud

Although the discussion is past, the film can still be viewed at any time
Click here to view the film (The password is WALL)

and/or

View the recording of the online discussion held on Sunday, March 21 with film director Anne Macksoud, Rabbi Dov Taylor, who is featured in the film and Moshen Mehdawi, a young Palestinian who grew up in the West Bank, now living in Vermont.
Click here to watch the recording of the Discussion

The Discussion Panel:

Anne Macksoud (film director): Spent 17 years as a teacher (English literature, photography, and music) before transitioning to film and video production. Once she discovered the “eye-opening” power of the documentary medium, she brought rented documentaries into her classroom on a regular basis.
Rabbi Dov Taylor: Ordained at the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City, Dov Taylor is Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Makom Solel Lakeside in Highland Park, Illinois, and rabbi at Chavurat Ki-tov: A Gathering for Jewish Life and Learning in Woodstock, Vermont. In his teaching and preaching, Rabbi Taylor has been an outspoken advocate of reconciliation and peace based on justice between Israel and Palestine.
Moshen Mehdawi, a young Palestinian who grew up in the West Bank, now living in Vermont, writing a book on Israel-Palestine and enrolled in Columbia Law School.

Discussion moderated by Mark Hage, founder member and activist in Vermonters for Justice in Palestine.
Sponsored by Vermonters for Justice in Palestine (vtjp.org), Jewish Voice for Peace VT-NH
and in partnership with Rochester, New York Witness for Palestine.

"[Burlington, VT] Bethlehem Arad Sister City" By Mousa and Kris Ishaq
A recording in the VICCI.org series - broadcast by CCTV Town Meeting TV:

Watch the program here:

An impressive presentation by Vermonters for Justice in Palestine activist Mousa Ishaq who was a founder and continues as president of the Sister City program Burlington-Bethlehem-Arad. His own village is about 25 miles from Bethlehem.

Mousa describes the very difficult situation for people living in Bethlehem especially since the occupation of the West Bank in 1967 including the wall, Israel’s refusal to provide building permits, and the additional problems from COVID-19 and while Israel is busy vaccinating its own population.
He recounts an emotional memory of his (Christian) father emphasizing how Palestinian people have always resisted occupation - by the Romans, by the (Turkish) Ottoman Empire, by the British, and now by Israel. Religion is not the issue, it is occupation, now by predominantly European people - another case of white privilege colonialism - and people claiming divine authority to occupy and colonize.
He considers recent 'peace agreements' between Israel and some authoritarian Arab regimes as a ruse to inhibit financial aid from those regimes to people in Palestine. Addressing the 'Two-State Solution' he highlights how this (for the past 73 years) has been an easy excuse by politicians to avoid confronting the real issues of self-determination, etc. thus a way perpetuate the occupation and colonization. However, he also considers that a real equitable two-state resolution is the only way out for pragmatic reasons.

 “This is Apartheid”
A discussion between renowned Palestinian Lawyer Diana Buttu and Hagai El-Ad, the Director of B’Tselem, the leading Israeli human rights organisation.
Presented by
Palestine Solidarity Committee https://www.palestinecampaign.org/
and
Council for Arab-British Understanding https://www.caabu.org/

From Sheikh Jarrah to Gaza: Israel’s War on Palestine “An excellent UK webinar”
A Webinar with Ken Loach, Roger Waters, Annemarie Jacir, Tamer Nafar, Issam Adwan, Fayrouz Sharqawi and hosted by Frank Barat.
Watch the recording here on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NliiXco9_g
Streamed live on May 13, 2021

No Way to Treat a Child – www.nowaytotreatachild.org

The #nowaytotreatachild campaign's May webinar was an emotional hour with personal updates from Gaza and the killings of dozens of Palestinian children. Also  together to honor the life of Obaida Jawabra, who was killed by Israeli forces earlier this week, documented in the short film OBAIDA.

If you missed the live webinar or would like to share the recording with a friend, here's the YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib9DHk-gbsQ
Suggested support for Palestinian people in Gaza with donations to organizations like AFSC,the Middle East Children's Alliance, and Medical Aid to Palestinians