Online Film Salons
Q&A discussion on Marketing the Occupation // Apartheid Genocide: Israeli Hasbara and the Brainwashing of America with panelists Lama Nazeeh - Advocacy Manager at 7amleh, Palestinian lawyer and human rights advocate; Nick Cleveland-Stout - Research Associate, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft; and Bryce Greene: organizer, student, and writer based in Bloomington, Indiana. Omar Zahzah Assistant Professor, AMED Studies, San Francisco State University moderated this conversation. This event was Co-Sponsored by 7amleh - The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media and Just World Educational.
Q&A discussion on Advocacy Workshop: Try This at Home with workshop participants Zeina Ashrawi Hutchison - Executive Board Member, Virginia Coalition for Human Rights; Ben Case - organizer, author, co-founder, Project for Responsive Democracy; and Matt Banks - poet, organizer, Chair, Chevron Out of French Quarter Fest campaign. Alex McDonald - author, activist, educational material developer led the workshop. This event was Co-Sponsored by Virginian Coalition for Human Rights.
Q&A discussion on Enduring Palestine: Erasure and Cultural Resistance with panelists Abdelfattah Abusrour - founder and Director, Alrowwad Cultural and Arts Society, Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem; George Harb -Director of Exhibitions and Programs, Museum of the Palestinian People; founder, Zaman Project; and Hanan Hamed - CEO, Autism Superhero Palestine; founder, Canaan Wellspring Dabke Dance Troupe. Ahmed Hmeedat (Moderator) - artist & founder of the Palestinian Artists Consortium website moderated this conversation. This event was Co-Sponsored by Visualizing Palestine.
Q&A discussion on Field Testing Israeli Occupation Tech: The Palestine Lab with panelists Jeff Halper - Israeli-American anthropologist, author, lecturer, and political activist; Jalal Abukhater - Policy Manager, 7amleh Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media; and Antony Loewenstein - Investigative journalist, author, podcaster, and filmmaker. Hassan El-Tayyab - author, songwriter, FCNL legislative director for Middle East policy moderated this conversation. This event was Co-Sponsored by Nonviolence International and War Industry Resisters Network.
Q&A discussion on Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank: It’s Even Worse than You Think with panelists Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man - Director for Israel-Palestine at DAWN and former editor-in-chief of +972 Magazine; Mazin Qumsiyeh - Director, Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability, author, and activist; and Mai Shahin - Specialist, nonviolent communication & trauma therapy, and Co-founder, Satyam Homeland Peace Center. Ken Dorph - developmental economist specializing in the Arab world, writer, and speaker moderated this conversation. This event was Co-Sponsored by Democracy for the Arab World Now and Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East.
Q&A discussion on Say What?? Responding to Israel/Palestine Disinformation – A Practical Workshop with Assal Rad - author, historian, commentator, and Nonresident Fellow at Arab Center; Aseel AlBajeh - Advocacy Officer at the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy and Alex McDonald (workshop leader) - author, activist, educational material developer. This event was Co-Sponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action and The Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy.
Q&A discussion on Total Impunity: International Law and The Israel Exception with panelists William Schabas - Professor of International Law, Middlesex University, former Chairman of UN Commission of Inquiry into the Gaza Conflict; Michael Lynk - Associate Professor of Law at Western University, former UNHCR Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian Territories; and Josh Paul - Co-founder of A New Policy, former Director of Bureau of Political-Military Affairs at U.S. Dept. of State. Lara Friedman - president of Foundation for Middle East Peace, former officer in the U.S. Foreign Service moderated this conversation. This event was Co-Sponsored by Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
Q&A discussion on A Deafening Silence? U.S. Church Leadership in the Face of Occupation Genocide with panelists Jonathan Brenneman - co-founder of Christians for a Free Palestine, Palestinian American Christian; Rev. Dr. Allison Tanner - National Coordinator of Apartheid-Free Initiative, Baptist Pastor of Public Witness; Rev. Dr. Don Wagner - author, Presbyterian Minister, former National Program Director at FOSNA; Rev. Dr. Frederick D. Haynes, III (Guest) - Senior Pastor, Friendship-West Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas; and Rev. Jeff Wright (Guest) - pastor, volunteer at Kairos Palestine, leads tours to Palestine-Israel. Rev. Addie Domske - National Field Organizer, Friends of Sabeel North America, Moderated this conversation. This event was Co-Sponsored by Christians for a Free Palestine and Palestine Justice Network (PCUSA).
Q&A discussion on Severed Limbs, Futures in Limbo: The Crisis of Amputation in Palestine with panelists Mark N. Perlmutter, MD - Orthopedic and hand surgeon practicing in Rocky Mount, NC ; Jen Marlowe - author; filmmaker; founder, Donkeysaddle Projects; and Consulting Producer, Just Vision; and Flavia Cappellini - journalist and filmmaker based in the Middle East. Brian Barber, PhD - Professor Emeritus, Univ. of Tennessee; Senior Fellow, Institute for Palestine Studies Moderated. This event was Co-Sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace - Health Advisory Council.
Q&A discussion on The Israel Occupation Tech Lab with panelists Helga Tawil-Souri - Palestinian-American scholar and Associate Professor, NYU, and filmmaker; Omar Zahzah - Assistant Professor, AMED Studies, San Francisco State University; and Mohammad Natsheh - Palestinian human rights activist in South Hebron Hills. Bianca Peracchi - Human rights activist, Nonviolence International; co-founder, Esperança Solidária moderated. This Roundtable was sponsored by Nonviolence International in partnership with Voices From the Holy Land.