Online Film Salons
Q&A discussion on Confronting Zionism: Free Speech for Palestine with Liz Jackson - Former Senior Attorney, Palestine Legal; Emmaia Gelman - Director, Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism; and Paul Noursi - member, Palestinian Christian Alliance for Peace and member of Virginia Coalition for Human Rights. Seth Morrison (Moderator) - board member, JVP Action and leader, Bay Area Jewish Voice for Peace Moderated the conversation. This Salon was partnered with Friends of Sabeel North America. Palestine Legal and Jewish Voice for Peace - Bay Area Co-Sponsored this event.
Q&A discussion on Guilt Not Required: Palestinian Prisoners, Hostages, and Detainees, with panelists Arab Barghouthi - Palestinian Political Activist; Hind Shraydeh - Jerusalemite writer and journalist; and Sahar Francis - Human rights activist and former board member, Defense for Children International-Palestine. Steve Tamari - author, Professor Emeritus of Middle East and Islamic History, SIUE moderated this conversation. This event was Co-Sponsored by Episcopal Peace Fellowhip Palestine Justice Network and the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
Q&A discussion on Rooted in Sumud: Palestinian Nonviolent Resistance with panelists Sami Awad - Co-Director of Nonviolence International, founder of the Holy Land Trust; Bill “Damani” Keene - Civil rights activist, author, and college administrator (ret.), and; Fadi Abushammala - Affiliate Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University, Executive Dir., General Union of Cultural Centers in Palestine; Outreach Associate for Gaza, Just Vision. Jen Marlowe - author; filmmaker; founder, Donkeysaddle Projects; and Consulting Producer, Just Vision moderated the conversation. This event was Co-Sponsored by Nonviolence International and Faith Strategies.
Q&A discussion on What to Do When They Speak Israel? A Practical Workshop with panelists Thomas Suárez - author; lecturer; former faculty, Palestine’s National Conservatory of Music; Miko Peled - author; human rights activist; founder and president, Palestine House of Freedom; and Alex McDonald (workshop leader) - author; activist; educational material developer. This event was Co-Sponsored by We Are Not Numbers and Indiana Center for Middle East Peace.
Q&A discussion on Pogroms & Ethnic Cleansing: Now on Our Watch with panelists Peter Balakian – Professor at Colgate University, Pulitzer Prize winner for Ozone Journal book of poetry, and author of The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response; William A. Schabas – Professor at Middlesex University, author, and former Chairman of the UN Commission of Inquiry into the Gaza conflict; Omar Haramy – Director of Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem, and Dina Matar – Director of Centre for Global Media and Communication of School of Law at SOAS of the University of London. Angela Miller – author, Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University at St. Louis moderated this discussion. This event was Co-Sponsored by Hindus for Human Rights and Palestinian Christian Alliance for Peace.
Q&A discussion on Living with Zionism: Israel, Palestine, and the United States with panelists Amira Musallam - Christian peace activist; member, Unarmed Civilian Protection team in Palestine; Mimi Kirk - editor, Institute for the Study of Christian Zionism; Editorial Consultant, Al-Shabaka; Odeliya Matter - Program Associate, Friends Committee on National Legislation; Co-Founder, Negev Media. Seth Morrison - board member, JVP Action; leader, Bay Area Jewish Voice for Peace Moderated this conversation. This event was Co-Sponsored by Friends of Sabeel North America and Jewish Voice for Peace – Boston Chapter.
Q&A discussion on Made Homeless in the Homeland: Lawfare, Demolition, and Land Theft with panelists Bruno Sorrentino - London-based filmmaker specializing in longitudinal documentaries; Eid Suleman Hathaleen - Artist & human rights activist from Umm al Khair, home demolished by IDF; Jeff Halper - Israeli-American anthropologist, author, lecturer, and political activist;founder of Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD); Mouin Rabbani (moderator) - Co-Editor of Jadaliyya; researcher, analyst, and commentator. This event was Co-Sponsored by Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice and If Americans Knew.
Q&A discussion on The Social Media Battleground in a Time of War with panelists Omar Zahzah – Assistant Professor, AMED Studies, San Francisco State University; Katie Halper – Host, “The Katie Halper Show” (WBAI); Co-Host, “Useful Idiots”; and Bryce Greene – FAIR Student Organizer, Indiana University Bloomington. Maya Berry – Executive Director, Arab American Institute moderated this event. This event was Co-Sponsored by Episcopal Peace Fellowship Palestine Israel Network and Defending Rights and Dissent.
Q&A Discussion on What’s in a Word? Defining Zionism with panelists Anne Perez – author, Adjunct Lecturer, History Department, University of South Alabama; Rabbi Alissa Wise - organizer of Rabbis for Ceasefire; former Executive Director, Jewish Voice for Peace; and Jack Munayer - activist, advocacy trainer, Humanitarian Affairs Officer/Researcher, UN OCHA-oPt. Jesse Steven Wheeler - author, Associate Executive Director, Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA) moderated this conversation. This event was Co-Sponsored by Friends of Sabeel North America and JustFaith St. Louis.
Q&A discussion with Ilan Cohen - Jewish American student activist, Columbia University; Max Flynt - Activist; member, General Union of Palestine Students, San Francisco State University and; Steven W. Thrasher - Journalist; author; Assistant Professor, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University. Natasha Lennard - author and journalist; Assoc. Director, Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism program, New School for Social Research moderated the conversation.