BDS Archives - The Jerusalem Fund

2020 Hisham Sharabi Memorial Lecture – “From the Oslo Accords to BDS: Topography of Palestine’s Activism in the US”

August 9, 2021August 4, 2020 by Omar Shalabi

In an online virtual delivery of the Hisham Sharabi Memorial Lecture, Dr. Hatem Bazian will chart the shift in American public opinion around Palestine. This shift is the result of an accumulative process that took shape during the 1980s and early 90s, and finds context in several successful national and transnational movements.

2019 Annual Conference: Panel II

November 27, 2019November 26, 2019 by Samirah Alkassim

On Panel II of the annual conference, speakers Dr. Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Grant Smith, Yousef Munayyer, and Lara Friedman discuss Geopolitics, the US Perspective on the Deal, BDS, and the Media & Palestine.

2019 Annual Conference: Panel II

November 27, 2019November 22, 2019 by Samirah Alkassim

On Panel II of the annual conference, speakers Dr. Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Grant Smith, Yousef Munayyer, and Lara Friedman discuss the topics of geopolitics, BDS, the Media & Palestine, and US perspective on the “Deal of the Century”.

2019 Annual Conference – The Deal of the Century: A Plan to Liquidate the Palestine Question

July 27, 2021October 28, 2019 by Samirah Alkassim

The speakers of the 2019 Palestine Center Annual Conference provide their analyses of this critical moment. The keynote address is delivered by Dr. Joseph Massad, followed by two panels that respectively address issues of the Right of Return, UNRWA, US and Israeli Policies (Panel I); and Geopolitics, BDS, The Media & Palestine, and US Perspective on the Deal (Panel II). Please join us for an engaging event.

2019 HSML – “Popular Resistance: Reclaiming the Narrative and Recreating the Self”

June 10, 2019May 14, 2019 by Samirah Alkassim

Dr. Ramzy Baroud’s delivery of the 2019 Hisham Sharabi Memorial Lecture addresses the necessity of re-articulating the Palestinian narrative, based on the aspirations of the Palestinian people. He reminds us that they are the protagonists of the Palestinian story, the victims of oppression and the main channel of resistance, starting with the creation of Israel on the ruins of Palestinian towns and villages in 1948.

2018 Palestine Center Annual Conference: Panel 2

August 1, 2019December 12, 2018 by Samirah Alkassim

Panelists Jim Clancy, Miko Peled, Ali Abunimah, and Dr. Osamah Khalil address the issues of media representation, American Jewish solidarity, Palestinian activism in the US, Gaza and Jerusalem. Panel is moderated by Palestine Center Committee member and journalist Said Arikat.

Natalie Portman and the Anti-Semitism Smear

July 27, 2021April 24, 2018 by JF Administrator

Palestine Center Brief No. 312 (April 24, 2018)

The Palestine solidarity movement should focus on Palestine

March 22, 2018 by JF Administrator

Nada Elia holds no punches. A principled activist and an accomplished academic, she writes with honesty and vigour. As I embarked on a worldwide speaking tour, an article she wrote two years ago was present in my mind. Entitled, “No More Mr Nice Guy: White Male Israeli Activists Exploiting Palestine Solidarity”, the article details a degree of exploitation of Palestinian solidarity by ex-Zionist intellectuals, who seek high fees and special treatment when they travel the world talking about their moral awakening and ideological conversion. Indeed, some of these “nice guys” generate so much income that they turned solidarity into thriving careers.