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).