Summer of Palestinian Visibility  

St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Seattle is hosting a series of events focusing on Israel-Palestine

All events are in the Fellowship Hall at 111 NE 80th St. Seattle, WA 98115

July 16, Wednesday at 7pm – Movie Night – We will be showing No Other Land, a 2024 documentary film.  The film was recorded between 2019 and 2023 and shows the destruction of a Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank, which had been resisting forced displacement after an Israeli “firing zone” was declared on their land. The film won Best Documentary Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards. 

August 6, Wednesday at 7pm – Movie Night –  The Settlers, A BBC documentary by Louis Theroux that examines the Israeli settler movement in the West Bank and its impact on Palestinians. The movie interviews and observes both Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank and members of the Israeli settler movement. The documentary explores the daily lives of various characters living on the most contested land in the world. 

August 13, Wednesday at 6pm – Dinner and short film night – The Present is a 2020 short film about a father and daughter in the Palestinian enclaves of the Israeli-occupied West Bank trying to buy a wedding anniversary gift. It won the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film in addition to being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. We will be serving a delicious middle eastern dinner (vegetarian options available) at 6pm and the short film at 7pm.

August 17, Sunday at 11:45pm approx. – Coffee hour speaker –Dr. Liora Halperin, a Professor of International Studies and History, and Distinguished Endowed Chair of Jewish Studies, at the University of Washington will be our speaker. She is an historian of Israel/Palestine with particular interests in nationalism and collective memory, Jewish cultural and social history, language ideology and policy, and the politics of colonization and settlement.