Online Film Salons
Q&A Discussion on The Past and the Present Tell US: Palestine's Future has to be Different! with panelists Aline Batarseh - executive director, Visualizing Palestine; co-editor, Visualizing Palestine, Salim Tamari - senior fellow, Institute for Policy Studies; former director, Institute of Jerusalem Studies, and Sami Awad - co-director of Nonviolence International, founder of Holy Land Trust. Mitchell Plitnick - president, ReThinking Foreign Policy; co-author, Except for Palestine moderated the conversation. This event was Co-Sponsored by United Church of Christ – Palestine Israel Network and Palestinian American Research Center.
Q&A discussion on ISRAEL, PALESTINE, BDS, AND BOYCOTTING IN THE US with Olivia Katbi - North America coordinator for the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement; Adrienne Pine - anthropologist, coordinator of the International Coalition to Stop Genocide in Palestine; and Merrie Najimy - Drop the ADL from Schools campaign. Jen Marlowe - author, documentary filmmaker, and founder, Donkeysaddle Projects moderated this conversation. This event was Co-Sponsored by Non-Violence international.
Q&A discussion In Conversation: "Humanity in Gaza" Revisited with guests Alice Rothchild – author, filmmaker, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School (Ret’d), founder of Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council, and mentor liaison, We Are Not Numbers; Walaa Sabah – journalist, activist, and Director of Operations at We Are Not Numbers; Catherine Baker – author, Steering Committee member at Voices From the Holy Land, advisory board member at Palestine Poster Project Archives, and senior editor at We Are Not Numbers.
Q&A panel discussion on TWO KIDS A DAY: Israel’s Systematic Incarceration of Children, with panelists Ayed Abu Eqtaish - Program Director, Defense for Children International–Palestine; Mohamad Babai - Co-producer of the documentary Two Kids a Day; Moria Shlomot - Chief Executive Officer, Parents Against Child Detention. Bassam S. Haddad - Associate Professor and Founding Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program, George Mason University moderated this conversation. This event was Co-Sponsored by Defense for Children International – Palestine and Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East.
Q&A panel discussion on October 7: Behind US and Israeli Headlines, with panelists Mouin Rabbani - Co-Editor of Jadaliyya, researcher, analyst, and commentator, Diana Buttu - Palestinian human rights lawyer, analyst at Institute for Middle East Understanding, and Adam Horowitz - Executive Editor of Mondoweiss.net, author, and activist. Nader Hashemi - Associate Professor and Director of the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service moderated this conversation. This event was Co-Sponsored by Pax Christi USA and Jewish Voice for Peace – DC Metro.
Q&A panel discussion on Destroying Healthcare: Israel’s War on Gaza Hospitals, with panelists Ghassan Abu-Sittah - Palestinian surgeon at Al Shifa and Al Ahli Arab Hospitals; Clyde Farris - orthopedic surgeon at Al Shifa Hospital; formerly with Doctors Without Borders (MSF); and Eileen Shields-West - Journalist, chair emeritus of Refugees International (RI), and chair of THE SEED Foundation. Christos Giannou - former Chief Surgeon at ICRC, former Executive Committee member of Palestine Red Crescent Society moderated this conversation. This event was Co-Sponsored by We Are Not Numbers and Arab American Institute.
Q&A panel discussion on Israeli Apartheid in Action: Water Control, with panelists Nancy Murray - co-founder of Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine; Mazin Qumsiyeh - Director of the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability; and Eyal Hareuveni - Author, Parched: Israel's Policy of Water Deprivation in the West Bank. Jeff Halper - Israeli-American anthropologist, author, lecturer, and political activist; founder of Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) moderated this conversation. This event was Co-Sponsored by Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine and Progressive Workers Union Palestine Solidarity Group
Q&A discussion on Also Happening: Oppression and Violence in the West Bank with panelists Jonathan Kuttab - attorney, author, Exec. Dir. Friends of Sabeel North America; Omar Haramy - Director of Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem; and Tariq Hathaleen - Palestinian activist in the South Hebron Hills and English teacher. Ariel Gold - Executive Director, Fellowship of Reconciliation USA moderated the conversation. This event was Co-Sponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action and Network of Evangelicals for the Middle East.
Q&A discussion on Israelism with panelists Erin Axelman - filmmaker, co-founder of Tikkun Olam Productions; Simone Zimmerman - Jewish American activist, co-founder of IfNotNow; and Lubna Alzaroo - instructor at University of Washington specializing in settler colonialism. Peter Beinart - editor-at-large at Jewish Currents; professor of journalism, CUNY; Publisher, The Beinart Newsletter, moderated this conversation. This event was Co-Sponsored by Independent Jewish Voices - Canada and Northern New Jersey Jewish Voice for Peace
Q&A Discussion on Humanity in Gaza with panelists Samah Jabr - Head of the Mental Health Unit within the Palestinian Ministry of Health and founding member, Palestine-Global Mental Health Network; and Ahmed Alnaouq - Palestinian journalist; cofounder of We Are Not Numbers. Alice Rothchild - Author, filmmaker, and Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School (Ret’d) and founder, Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council moderated the conversation. This event was Co-Sponsored by USA Palestine Mental Health Network and Fellowship of Reconciliation USA.