by nikki-admin | Jun 4, 2023 | Movies
Boycott (2021) is an award-winning documentary by Just Vision that chronicles one of the most consequential U.S. First Amendment battles, during which 35 states passed laws to silence boycotts and nonviolent means of pressuring Israel to end its human rights abuses....
by nikki-admin | May 24, 2023 | Movies
Afterward by Ofra Bloch Ofra Bloch is an Israeli trauma expert and director of the documentary film Afterward. In the film, she journeys through Germany, Israel, and Palestine to interview victims and victimizers. The title of the film points to the hope for living...
by nikki-admin | Mar 26, 2023 | Movies
“Tantura” is a documentary by Israeli director Alon Schwarz which examines why it is taboo to discuss the Nakba in Israel. Tantura is the name of a Palestinian village in which, one week after the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, Jewish forces massacred more...
by nikki-admin | Mar 26, 2023 | Movies
Farha is a historical drama based on a true story of a Palestinian girl’s coming-of-age during the Nakba, which is the 1948 displacement of Palestinians from their homes. The film was directed by Darin J. Sallam and premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2021....
by nikki-admin | Dec 26, 2022 | Movies
The movie, 1948: Creation and Catastrophe, describes the events underlying the establishment of Israel through the personal recollections of both Palestinians and Israelis. This documentary was the last chance for many Israelis and Palestinians to narrate their...
by nikki-admin | Nov 14, 2022 | Movies
A celebration of diversity, Young Jewish and Left weaves queer culture, Jewish Arab history, secular Yiddishkeit, anti-racist analysis, and religious/spiritual traditions into a multi-layered tapestry of Leftist politics. Personal experiences from many of today’s...
Curtis Bell, President of Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East, spoke to the First Unitarian Church’s Department of Social Justice about his two months in … Read more
In 2000, the heads of Jerusalem churches wrote a letter to the leaders at Camp David as they decided the status of Jerusalem. In 2017, these patriarchs … Read more
Controversy fell upon the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto in 2022 as debate swirled between accusations of antisemitism and anti-Palestinian racism. A confidential … Read more
On February 26, 2023, more than 400 Jewish settlers terrorized the Palestinian village of Hawara in the Occupied West Bank. For hours, the settlers set buildings and … Read more
Christians Against Israeli Violence: Churches Call to End U.S. Military Aid to Israel On March 10, 2023, ten U.S.-based Christian groups published a letter directed to President … Read more
Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA) is a Christian organization that seeks peace and justice in the Holy Land and liberation in Palestine through education, advocacy, and … Read more