Palestine Film Night
By Eartha Muirhead
All are welcome to a screening of Where The Olive Trees Weep, at the DI Community Hall, on Tuesday, Dec. 3. Doors open at 5:30 pm, film begins at 6pm. Entrance is by donation and since this is over the dinner hour, soup and bread will be available by donation. All proceeds go to help children in Gaza.
Where Olive Trees Weep offers a searing window into the struggles and resilience of the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. The film explores themes of loss, trauma and the quest for justice and follows Palestinian journalist and therapist Ashira Darwish, grassroots activist Ahed Tamimi, and Israeli journalist Amira Hass. Featured also is Dr. Gabor Maté, who offers trauma-healing work to a group of women who were tortured in Israeli prisons. This emotional journey bares the humanity of the oppressed while grappling with the question: what makes the oppressor so ruthlessly blind to its own cruelty?
After the movie we are offering a facilitated conversation as a safe space to share the thoughts and feelings that the movie evokes.
According to Democracy Now, Israel’s siege is blocking almost all humanitarian aid and supplies into Gaza. This siege can not be seen as self-defense, since it affects mostly Palestinian civilians, women and children. Top UN officials are again warning that the ENTIRE Palestinian population in North Gaza are “at imminent risk of dying from disease, famine and violence.” Jan Egeland, a seasoned diplomat and Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council, was recently in Gaza. He described what he saw as “apocalyptic… an indiscriminate military campaign that is killing mostly women and children.” Egeland is pleading with Biden to withdraw all weapons sales to Israel and says that: “It is not in Israel’s interest to destroy Gaza. It will create new generations of hatred.”
To learn more about the Palestine/Israel conflict, please attend a showing of Where The Olive Trees Weep, at the DI Community Hall, on Tuesday, Dec. 3, soup and bread available, doors open at 5:30 pm. Film begins at 6pm. By donation.
If you want to find out more Independent Jewish Voices and Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East are two organizations with informative websites and come join us on December 3rd.
