Videos

This year’s speaker for the annual James Graff Memorial Lecture was Dr. Tarek Loubani. Dr. Loubani is a Canadian doctor who was in Gaza during the Great March of Return in 2018. The program is sponsored by the Canadian Friends of Sabeel (https://friendsofsabeel.ca/) , and hosted by Emmanuel College, at the University of Toronto.

“When we speak about Palestine, when we speak about the Right of Return, when we speak about Jerusalem, we are not divided by sects. We are one people. We are one nation. We are one cause . . . [W]e are one single sect whose name is the Palestinian Arab people.”

Rev. Naim Ateek, founder of Sabeel, the Ecumenical Liberation Theology Centre in Jerusalem, talks in 2009 about one of his earlier books, A Palestinian Christian Cry for Reconciliation. Video available in full at www.pdxjustice.org.

We Are Not Numbers reporter Rakan Abed El Rahman provides a harrowing, up-close look at the state of health care in Gaza, due to the Israeli/Egyptian blockade and internal political rivalries. The lives of Palestinians in Gaza hang in hang in the balance. With masterful editing by Anas Mohammed Jnena.

Michael Lynk, UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine spoke on “50 Years and Counting: Legality of the Israeli Occupation of Palestine” on November 29, 2017, the UN International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People,