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5/17 (in person, Pittsburgh PA) 1pm - The Ongoing Nakba: 100 Plus Years of Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide - A Special Talk by Jonathan Kuttab (Orthodox Christians for Palestine)

Saturday, May 17 @ 1:00pm - 4757‭ ‬Baum Blvd‭. ‬Pittsburgh‭, ‬PA

Orthodox Christians for Palestine presents: The Ongoing Nakba: 100 Plus Years of Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide, A Special Talk by Jonathan Kuttab

Introductory remarks by‭ ‬Father Paul Abernathy‭, ‬St‭. ‬Moses the Black

In partnership with‭ ‬FOSNA‭ ‬‭

‬Hosted by the‭ ‬Khalil Restaurant

Orthodox Christians for Palestine is a humanitarian movement formed by parishioners from Saints Peter‭ & ‬Paul Church in Potomac‭, ‬MD‭, ‬Saint George Church in Washington DC‭, ‬St‭. ‬Mary’s Church in Hunt Valley‭, ‬MD‭, ‬and St‭. ‬Mary’s Church‭ (‬OCA‭) ‬in Falls Church‭, ‬VA‭. ‬OCP believes that the voice and actions of the Orthodox Church are critical to lasting and‭ ‬genuine peace‭. ‬

Jonathan Kuttab‭ ‬is a co-founder of the Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq and co-founder of Nonviolence International‭. ‬As human rights attorney‭, ‬Jonathan practices in the US‭, ‬Palestine and Israel‭. ‬He serves on the Board of Bethlehem Bible College and is President of the Board of Holy Land Trust‭. ‬Jonathan was the head of the Legal Committee negotiating the Cairo Agreement of 1994‭ ‬between Israel‭ ‬and the PLO‭. ‬After graduating with his Doctor of Jurisprudence‭ (‬JD‭) ‬from Virginia Law School‭, ‬and practicing on Wall Street‭, ‬Jonathan returned home to Palestine‭. ‬Jonathan was visiting scholar at Osgoode Law School at York University in Toronto in the Fall‭ ‬of 2017‭, ‬and is a founding director of Just Peace Advocates Mouvement pour une Paix Juste‭, ‬a Canadian based international law human rights non-profit organization‭. ‬He is currently the executive director of Friends of Sabeel North America‭. (‬FOSNA‭).‬

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