This animated movie follows Wardi, an eleven-year-old Palestinian girl, who lives with her whole family in the refugee camp where she was born. Her beloved great-grandfather Sidi was one of the first people to settle in the camp after being chased from his home back in 1948. The day Sidi gives her the key to his old house back in Galilee, she fears he may have lost hope of someday going home. As she searches for Sidi’s lost hope around the camp, she will collect her family’s testimonies, from one generation to the next […] (Sunday, June 13)
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The conflict in Palestine-Israel is decades old and so is the dispossession of the Palestinian people. However, this conflict is not presented as a human rights issue in mainstream American media. It is highly politicized and distorted. The idea of the Witness Palestine Film Series is to address such misconceptions by screening documentary and narrative films about the conflict, compelling films which illustrate the realities on the ground in both Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories […]
Read more about "Objector (Spring 2021)"A Discussion With Jeff Halper (2021)
The presentation will review the article, Israelizing the American Police, Palestinianizing the American People, by Jeff Halper published by Americans for Middle East Understanding […] (Saturday, May 8, 2021)
Read more about "A Discussion With Jeff Halper (2021)"Against the Loveless World, by Susan Abulhawa (2021)
In Susan Abulhawa’ s new work of historical fiction, Against the Loveless World, the protagonist, Nahr, is a young woman whose changing circumstances require a series of difficult choices. These choices are unlike any that most readers will ever have to make, yet her motivation and values ring true and universal […] (Sunday, April 18, 2021)
Read more about "Against the Loveless World, by Susan Abulhawa (2021)"‘Til Kingdom Come (2021)
Documentary PBS, Independent Lens Filmmaker: Maya Zinshtein Availability: see note below Online Discussion: Monday, April 5 2021, 8:00pm EDT with Don Wagner and Jonathan Brenneman This program has ended. You can watch a recording on our YouTube channel reached through rw4p.org/YouTube. With an estimated 30 million Christian Zionists in the U.S., it’s important for us to unpack the […]
Read more about "‘Til Kingdom Come (2021)"Seeing Through The Wall (2020 & 2021)
Here’s a good alternative to travel to Palestine during coivd-19. As expressed in an opening card, this documentary shows “an experience or an encounter” not a tour. In 2016, a rabbi invited a group of Americans to join him on a trip to introduce them to Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories and East Jerusalem […] (Sunday, March 21)
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