December 3: Children of East Jerusalem – with War Child

On December 3, 2024, War Child will join us to discuss a new report about the children of East Jerusalem.

Time: Tuesday, December 3 at 6:00 pm Palestine time (UTC+2). That’s…​

• ​Pacific (Seattle/Vancouver): 8 am
• Central (Chicago): 10 am
• Eastern (New York/Toronto): 11 am
• Atlantic: 12 pm
• Newfoundland: 12:30 pm
• Greenwich (London): 4 pm
• Central Europe (Paris/Stockholm): 5 pm
• South Africa: 5 pm
• Manila: 11 am
• Sydney: 2 am (+1 Day)
• Auckland: 4 am (+1 Day)

Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/94679502800 (You might need to do a quick registration. This link is the same, either way.) Remember, if you’d like to receive a reminder about the gathering an hour before it begins, please use the registration form at the bottom of the page.

Urgent Actions

Find a Protest

US https://uscpr.org/oct-2023-protests/
UK https://palestinecampaign.org/events/
World https://palactions.com/#home

US and UK: Advent Not Arms

Join Churches for Middle East Peace in the US (https://cmep.org/advent-not-arms/) and Embrace the Middle East in the UK (https://embraceme.org/advent-not-arms) to call for Arms Not Advent. Each has a link to a petition to go along with the campaign.

North America: Friends of Palestinian Detainees

Your congregation can be one of twelve to join a new program from FOSNA that will personalize and humanize the reality of thousands of Palestinians detained in Israeli jails and prisons. Congregations in the pilot will be matched to a Christian Palestinian detainee and their family members with the goal of building relationships that can be sustained. Your can apply here: https://www.fosna.org/advocacy-direct-action-database/friends-of-palestinian-detainees

Canada: Cut ties with Azrieli

One of Toronto Arts Foundation’s top donors, the Azrieli Foundation, is the charitable counterpart of the genocidal Azrieli Group AKA “Israel’s largest real estate company”. The Azrieli Group’s assets include illegal settlement infrastructure in the occupied West Bank & East Jerusalem, and shares in Bank Leumi, an Israeli bank violating international law by financing illegal settlements and extracting natural resources in Palestine. Learn more here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DCpLEcVSoWK/?img_index=4

Get involved in the campaign to cut ties with Azrieli: Talk to your peers and arts organization(s) about Azrieli’s complicity and sign on to the open letter demanding Toronto Arts Foundation cut ties with Azrieli Foundation: tinyurl.com/NoAzrieli

World: Get Chevron OUT of Palestine

Get Chevron OUT of Palestine. Join the #BoycottChevron for Gaza campaign – and send a letter to Chevron CEO Mike Wirth now.