Kumi Now Online Archives
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Week 21: Preserving History and Culture
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Week 20: The Ongoing Nakba
 | May 17, 2022: The Ongoing Nakba Links and more information from the gathering are available here. |
Palestinian Innovators #5: Dr. Lily Habash
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 | March 15, 2022: Palestinian Innovators, Dr. Anton Khalilieh Links and more information from the gathering are available here. |
Palestinian Innovators #4: Dr. Anton Khalilieh
| March 15, 2022: Palestinian Innovators, Dr. Anton Khalilieh Links and more information from the gathering are available here. |
Palestinian Innovators #3: Ranan Issa
 | March 1, 2022: Palestinian Innovators, Ranan Issa Links and more information from the gathering are available here. |
Palestinian Innovators #2: Vera Baboun
 | February 15, 2022: Palestinian Innovators, Vera Baboun Links and more information from the gathering are available here. |
Palestinian Innovators #1: Hanna Tams
 | February 1, 2022: Palestinian Innovators, Hanna Tams Links and more information from the gathering are available here. |
Week 52: Christians in the Holy Land
 | December 28, 2021: Christians in the Holy Land Links and more information from the gathering are available here. Week 52: Christians in the Holy Land entry |
Week 51: Syrian Golan
 | December 21, 2021: Syrian Golan Links and more information from the gathering are available here. Week 51: Syrian Golan entry |
Week 50: Right of Return
 | December 14, 2021: Right of Return Links and more information from the gathering are available here. Week 50: Right of Return entry |
Week 49: Human Rights
 | December 7, 2021: Human Rights Links and more information from the gathering are available here. Week 49: Human Rights entry |
Week 48: Kairos Document
 | November 30, 2021: Kairos Document Links and more information from the gathering are available here. Week 48: Kairos Document entry |
Week 47: Gender-Based Violence
 | November 23, 2021: Gender-Based Violence Links and more information from the gathering are available here. Week 47: Gender-Based Violence entry |
Week 46: Children’s Rights
 | November 16, 2021: Children’s Rights Links and more information from the gathering are available here. Week 46: Children’s Rights entry |
Week 45: Antisemitism
 | November 9, 2021: Antisemitism Links and more information from the gathering are available here. Week 45: Antisemitism entry |
Week 44: Anti-Muslim and Anti-Islamic Discrimination
 | November 2, 2021: Anti-Muslim and Anti-Islamic Discrimination Links and more information from the gathering are available here. Week 44: Anti-Muslim and Anti-Islamic Discrimination entry |
Week 43: Women in Conflict
 | October 26, 2021: Women in Conflict Links and more information from the gathering are available here. Week 43: Women in Conflict entry |
Week 42: Profiting from Occupation
 | October 19, 2021: Profiting from Occupation Links and more information from the gathering are available here. Week 42: Profiting from Occupation entry |
Week 41: Mental Health
 | October 12, 2021: Mental Health Links and more information from the gathering are available here. Week 41: Mental Health entry |
Week 40: Nonviolence in Palestine
 | October 5, 2021: Nonviolence in Palestine Links and more information from the gathering are available here. Week 40: Nonviolence in Palestine entry |
Week 39: Bedouin Rights
 | September 28, 2021: Bedouin Rights Links and more information from the gathering are available here. Week 39: Bedouin Rights entry |
Week 38: Blockade of Gaza
 | September 21, 2021: Blockade of Gaza Links and more information from the gathering are available here. Week 38: Blockade of Gaza entry |
Week 37: Bethlehem
 | September 14, 2021: Bethlehem Links and more information from the gathering are available here. Week 37: Bethlehem entry |
Week 36: Education Funding and Policy
 | September 7, 2021: Education Funding and Policy Links and more information from the gathering are available here. Week 36: Education Funding entry |
Week 35: Art as Resistance
 | August 31, 2021: Art as Resistance Links and more information from the gathering are available here. Week 35: Art as Resistance entry |
Week 34: Christian Zionism
 | August 24, 2021: Christian Zionism Links and more information from the gathering are available here. Week 34: Christian Zionism entry |
Week 33: U.S. Role in Palestine
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August 17, 2021: U.S. Role in Palestine Links and more information from the gathering are available here. |
Week 32: Indigenous Rights
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August 10, 2021: Indigenous Rights Links and more information from the gathering are available here. |
Week 31: Collective Punishment
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August 3, 2021: Collective Punishment Links and more information from the gathering are available here. |
Week 30: Family Unification
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July 27, 2021: Family Unification Links and more information from the gathering are available here. |
Week 29: The Israeli Apartheid Wall
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July 20, 2021: Israeli Apartheid Wall Links and more information from the gathering are available here. |
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Week 28: Morally Responsible Investing
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July 13, 2021: Morally Responsible Investing Links and more information from the gathering are available here. |
Week 26: Nuclear Israel
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June 29, 2021: Nuclear Israel Links and more information from the gathering are available here. |
Week 25: Palestinian Refugees
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June 22, 2021: Palestinian Refugees Links and more information from the gathering are available here. |
Week 24: Tourism and Pilgrimage
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June 15, 2021: Tourism and Pilgrimage Links and more information from the gathering are available here. |
Week 23: Administrative Detention
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June 8, 2021: Environmental Effects of Occupation Links and more information from the gathering are available here. |
Week 16: Administrative Detention
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April 20, 2021: Administrative Detention Links and more information from the gathering are available here. |
Week 15: Home Demolitions
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April 13, 2021: Home Demolitions Links and more information from the gathering are available here. |
Week 14: Minors in Military Courts
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April 6, 2021: Minors in Military Courts Links and more information from the gathering are available here. |
Week 13: Conditions in Gaza
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March 30, 2021: Conditions in Gaza Links and more information from the gathering are available here. |
Week 12: Natural Resources
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March 23, 2021: Natural Resources Links and more information from the gathering are available here. |
Week 11: Olive Trees
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March 16, 2021: Olive Trees Links and more information from the gathering are available here. |
Week 10: Women in Peacebuilding
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March 9, 2021: Women in Peacebuilding Links and more information from the gathering are available here. |
Week 9: Restrictions on Movement
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March 2, 2021: Restrictions on Movement Links, bios, and more information from the gathering are available here. |
Week 8: Settlements and Violence
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February 23, 2021: Settlements and Violence Links, bios, and more information from the gathering are available here. |
Week 7: Discriminatory Policies towards the Palestinian People
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February 16, 2021: Discriminatory Policies towards the Palestinian People We learned from those on the ground in Palestine who are fighting against the discriminatory policies that seek to divide Palestinians from one another. Our guest was Daoud Kuttab, a regular columnist for Al-Monitor’s Palestine Pulse and the director-general of Community Media Network. Links and more information from the gathering are available here. Week 7: Discriminatory Practices towards the Palestinian People entry |
Week 6: Medical Rights
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February 9, 2021: Medical Rights We learned about the medical rights of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Our guest was Fikr Shalltoot of Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP). Fikr’s slides from her presentation. Links and more information from the gathering are available here. |
Week 5: Palestinian Citizens of Israel
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February 2, 2021: Palestinian Citizens of Israel Join us to learn about the regular discrimination in policing, employment, housing, and every other facet of life faced by Palestinian citizens of Israel. Our guests included Jaffar Farrah and Suha Salman of Mossawa Center. Links and more information from the gathering are available here. |
Week 4: Jerusalem
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January 26, 2021: Jerusalem Join us to learn about discrimination, challenges, and politics in Jerusalem. Our guests included Rami Saleh of JLAC and Dr. Lily Habash-Hilal. |
Week 3: Building Permit Discrimination
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January 19, 2021: Building Permit Discrimination Join us to learn about building permit discrimination in the in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Our guests will include Jeff Halper, co-founder of ICAHD and Dr. Meir Margalit, Jerusalem city council member and co-founder of ICAHD. |
Week 2: Doing Business while Palestinian
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January 12, 2021: Doing Business while Palestinian The first injustice we addressed this year was limitations on the ability of Palestinians to participate in the business and labor market. Our guests included Denes Assad, a Palestinian storyteller from Caesarea, Sam Bahour, an American businessman and entrepreneur, and Nisreen Musleh, founder and Managing Director of RITAJ Managerial Solutions in Ramallah. |
Week 1: Discussing the New Kumi Now
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January 5, 2021: Discussing the New Kumi Now This was an informal discussion with Omar Haramy, director of Sabeel Jerusalem, about the goals and plans of Kumi Now. |
Week 52: Joint Advocacy Initiative and Destruction of Olive Trees
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October 13, 2020: Destruction of Olive Trees Ibrahim Hannouneh, Media Officer and Exchange Programs Coordinator, and Muhanad Al-Qaisy, Olive Tree Campaign Coordinator, from the Joint Action Initiative taught us about the importance of the olive harvest for Palestinian society and its economy, and how the Apartheid Wall and settler violence, among other injustices, attack olive production. |
Week 51: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and Human Rights
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October 6, 2020: Human Rights Hamdi Shaqqura, Deputy Director for Program Affairs and Director of the Advocacy Program and Basil Sourani, International Advocacy officer, discussed the wide range of human rights abuses that Palestinians face in the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel. You can find the recording of the session on YouTube. Once again you can find a full list of the links shared during the gathering underneath the video on YouTube. |
Week 50: Tent of Nations and Building Permit Discrimination in the West Bank
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September 29, 2020: Building Permit Discrimination in the West Bank Daoud Nassar, director of Tent of Nations, talked about the history of the Nassar farm and Tent of Nations, as they strive to build bridges between people, while at the same time facing the realities of building permit discrimination in the West Bank. |
Week 47: Arab Educational Institute and Rachel’s Tomb and Bethlehem
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September 8, 2020: Rachel’s Tomb and Bethlehem Rania Murra and Claudette Mubarak from AEI talked about how the site of Rachel’s Tomb has been cut off from Bethlehem and Palestinians as the city of Bethlehem has been surrounded by the Apartheid wall and settlements. |
Week 46: Adalah and Palestinian Arab Bedouin Citizens of Israel
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September 1, 2020: Palestinian Arab Bedouin Citizens of Israel Myssana Morany, a lawyer with Adalah, focused our attention on the discrimination and challenges faced by Palestinian Arab Bedouin citizens within Israel. |
Week 45: Dar al-Kalima University College and Art as Resistance
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August 25, 2020: Art as Resistance We learned about how art is being used as a form of resistance in Palestine as Faten Nastas Mitwasi joins us from Dar al-Kalima University College of Arts and Culture, where she is head of the Graphic Design and Applied Arts Program, and Ibrahim Handal shared his experience as a student and filmmaker. |
Week 44: Churches for Middle East Peace and Living in Gaza Under Blockade and Churches Against Annexation
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August 18, 2020: Living in Gaza under Blockade and Churches Against Annexation Dr. Bassam abu Hamad spoke on the the current state of affairs in Gaza and Kyle Cristofalo of CMEP introduced us to the Churches Against Annexation campaign. |
Week 43: Defense for Children International Palestine and Youth Detention
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August 11, 2020: Youth Detention Khaled Quzmar, general director of DCIP, will inform us on the state Israel’s illegal use of youth detention. |
Week 42: Shashat Woman Cinema and Young Palestinian Women Filmmakers
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August 4, 2020: Young Palestinian Women Filmmakers We celebrated Palestinian arts and culture by watching short films from young Palestinian women filmmakers from Shashat Women Cinema and talking to Marina from CFD, the Feminist Peace Organization. |
Week 41: Women in Black and Women under Conflict
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July 28, 2020: Women in Black andWomen under Occupation Aliyah Strauss and Ruth Elraz, from the Tel Aviv and Jerusalem Women in Black vigils, joined us to talk about the Women in Black movement and the effects of conflict on women and families, particularly in Palestine. |
Week 40: Pilgrims of Ibillin and Education Funding Inequalities
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July 21, 2020: Pilgrims of Ibillin and Education Funding Inequality Three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, former archbishop, and founder of Mar Elias schools, Archbishop Elias Chacour addressed the barriers to education that Palestinian children face, particularly discriminatory funding practices. NOTE: TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES KEPT THE ARCHBISHOP FROM JOINING FOR MUCH OF THE LIVE SESSION. We recorded an interview the following day and have edited in that interview where it should have occurred the original night, after his introduction. The new interview with the Archbishop is at the 16:14 mark, while the rest of the original session continues at 49:22. |
Week 39: Zochrot and Right of Return and the JNF
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July 14, 2020: Right of Return and the JNF Rachel Beitarie and Umar al-Ghubari from Zochrot explained the connection between the right of return and the Jewish National Fund, which has been tasked with hiding and eradicating the remains of Palestinian villages and property in Israel. |
Week 38: Sabeel-Kairos UK and Morally-Responsible Investing
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July 7, 2020: Morally-Responsible Investing Charlotte Marshall and Gerald Conyngham from Sabeel-Kairos spoke about morally-responsible investing and their ‘Investing for Peace’ campaign. Learn how churches are investing for peace and consider how you, your church, and your other organizations can apply the same investment strategies. |
Week 37: An Evening of Palestinian Music and Literature
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June 30, 2020: An Evening of Palestinian Music and Literature This evening featured a number of Palestinian artists and musicians, including poet Samia Khoury, members of the musical group al Rua’, Tania Nasir reading the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, and Dr. Pauline Coffman, coordinator of the Seraj Libraries Project. “Murdered Houses” and “The Girl / The Scream” by Mahmoud Darwish Mahmoud Darwish’s books on Archipelago Books Al Rua’ (Shepherds Musical Band) “The Holy City” sung by Daughters of Jerusalem and The Princeton Girlchoir |
Week 36: Sabeel and Jerusalem under Occupation
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June 23, 2020: Jerusalem under Occupation The gathering featured the Rev. Naim Ateek and Cedar Duabyis, co-founders of Sabeel, Budour Hasan of the Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center, and Adv. Raffoul Rofa, the director of the Society of St. Yves. They taught us about the effects of occupation on Jerusalem, and what is being done and what can be done about it. More about Sabeel |
Week 35: ICAHD and Home Demolitions in Palestine
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June 16, 2020: Home Demolitions in Palestine Jeff Halper is an Israeli anthropologist, the head of the Israel Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), and the author of War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification. He let us know what can be done to help stop the use of home demolitions as a form of collective punishment. He was joined by ICAHD UK director Linda Ramsden and Awdah al-Hathleen from Umm al-Khair. |
Week 34: Peacemakers Trust and What is Christian Zionism?
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June 9, 2020: What is Christian Zionism? The Rev. Dr. Stephen Sizer is the founder and director of Peacemaker Trust, a registered charity dedicated to peacemaking. He is the author of Zion’s Christian Soldiers?: The Bible, Israel and the Church and helped us understand Christian Zionism and what can be done to counter its influence. The Rev. Dr. Stephen Sizer’s presentation slides The Rev. Dr. Stephen Sizer’s responses to our additional questions Peacemakers Trust’s Kumi Now Page |
Week 33: The Palestine Museum of Natural History and The Environmental Impacts of Occupation
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June 2, 2020: Environmental Impacts of Occupation Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, activist, author, scientist, and director of the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability (PIBS) and the Palestine Museum of Natural History (PMNH), helped us understand the environmental impacts of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and what activists around the world can do to help resist. Dr. Qumsiyeh’s PowerPoint Slides PMNH’s Kumi Now Page |