Now Is The Time
The holiday season is fast approaching!
We at FOSNA look towards the end of the year ready for action and would be honored to have you join us in our plethora of activities to look forward to. Please join us in Preaching Palestine or even Visiting Palestine this Advent season. It is incredibly important in light of the current climate to show solidarity with Palestinians both at home and on the ground. For those of us unable to travel, we encourage you to save the date (December 11) for the upcoming film salon: “Come and See; Go and Tell—Next Year in Palestine,” which we are co-hosting with our friends at Voices from the Holy Land (VFHL).
We are also excited for GivingTuesday (November 29), an annual day of generosity to individuals and nonprofits the Tuesday after Thanksgiving established to counter the consumerism of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Amazingly enough, this year GivingTuesday aligns with the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People! Lastly, please stay tuned for our annual Christmas Appeal. As an independent nonprofit committed to grass-roots advocacy and action for justice in Palestine, we are entirely dependent upon the generosity of friends and supporters like you.
Thank you
Over 1,400 individuals across North America took action in support of Shadi Khoury, a 16-year-old kidnapped from his home in Beit Hanina in East Jerusalem by Israeli Occupation forces. Thanks to all of you, US Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Canadian MPs Leah Gazan and Matthew Green, and UK MP Layla Moran, have all spoken out in support of Shadi.
This week, we know Shadi has been moved to Damon Prison in Haifa for at least 11 days as his family awaits a verdict. We know at least 5 other children were arrested as part of the same operation as Shadi: Ali Tawil, Bassam Rajabi, Hamza Sub Laban, Ibrahim Sub Laban, and Khaled Abu Assab. The 6 of them have been beaten inside the prison, which Amnesty MENA is calling torture. Let's keep applying pressure in support of all children violently detained by Israel!
For a more detailed update on Shadi, click here.
Preach Palestine 2022
Now Is the Time!
Friends of Sabeel North America is calling on Christian leaders across the U.S. to commit their congregations to Preach Palestine this Advent season.
Be it an entire service or a single prayer, we are asking you to once again Preach Palestine and lift up the Palestinian people such that they would come to experience the joy, justice, and peace of Christ's liberating reign, as a very real light in the present darkness.
Click the link below to learn more and find resources!
WATCH
Watch all things FOSNA, old and new, at our brand new video library! Visit fosna.org/videos today.
Get Involved!
We invite you to join us in the following events and activities:
Christian Zionism and Religious, Political and Economic Fundamentalisms: A Palestinian-Latin American Conversation
Our co-chair Joe Roos will be in Santiago, Chile this November for a conference on Christian Zionism in Latin America!
November 5: Dearborn
Palestine Israel: Past, Present, Future
On November 5, the Intercultural Community Center of Dearborn (ICCD), Michigan, will host an educational event titled "Palestine-Israel: Past, Present, and Future."
This will be both an in-person and Zoom event by registration. There will be a panel discussion, a documentary (in-person only), and a general discussion.
November 13: Online
Voices from the Holy Land Online Film Salon: "The Settlers"
Combining history and headlines, THE SETTLERS is the first comprehensive look at the sensitive issue of Israel's continued construction of settlements in the West Bank, which is at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Radicals, idealists, messianic fanatics, true believers and political opportunists, living on the fault lines of an age-old conflict, come face to face with history itself. Today, the settlers threaten to destroy what little peace remains in the Middle East.
Watch the film for free at your convenience | Join the Q&A Discussion
Shimon Dotan – Filmmaker, university instructor on Political Cinema and Film Directing
Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro – Scholar, author, and Board Director at International Council for Middle East Studies
Lara Friedman (moderator) – President, Foundation for Middle East Peace
Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center, Jerusalem:
Weekly
Sabeel Prayer Service. Join Sabeel every Thursday (6pm Jerusalem) for online Bible Study, discussion, and prayer. Examine scripture in light of the ongoing realities confronting the Palestinian Church and the pursuit of Palestinian liberation.
Wave of Prayer. Subscribe to receive Sabeel's Wave of Prayer, enabling friends of Sabeel around the world to pray over issues of critical concern to the Holy Land on a weekly basis.
Kumi Now! (Week 44) Anti-Muslim and Anti-Islamic Discrimination. November is Islamophobia Awareness Month, run by the Muslim Engagement and Development (MEND) non-profit in the United Kingdom. Kumi Now would like to bring the message of Islamophobia Awareness Month to a world audience. The constant slings and arrows inherent in the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territory have all the markings of anti-Muslim and anti-Islamic discrimination. While not all Palestinians are Muslims, and the overwhelming majority of Muslims have never engaged in any kind of violence, the overarching view in Western media of Palestinians as Muslim terrorists has done nothing to build global support for the anti-colonial struggles of the Palestinians in a way that the world supported the struggles in Ireland, India, and South Africa. Here’s what you need to know about Islamophobia and what you can do so that together we can rise up.