TITLE: "Against Fragmentation: Palestinian Practices of Connection to Confront Erasure—and How They Inspire Solidarity in the US Today" Despite closure, economic deprivation, and political threat, Palestinians in a refugee camp in the West Bank have insisted on staying connection with friends, colleagues and kin in Gaza, and on supporting each other. Witnessing and understanding these brave...
PALESTINIAN PRESENTER: Issam Morris DATE: Saturday, January 24, 2026 We're grateful to all who braved the cold to join us in St. Paul for our January 24 in-person event with Issam Morris, who shared with us his moving journey as a Palestinian child refugee. If you weren't able to come, and want to view the recorded video of the event, it is available for you to view on our YouTube channel. ...
MEPN monthly webinar - November 15, 2025 "The Obliteration of Gaza and Israel's Futures" A presentation by Omer Bartov, an Israeli-American scholar and Dean’s Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. This talk analyzes the origins and implementation of Israel's campaign of demolition, ethnic cleansing, and genocide in Gaza, and attempt to sketch out future scenarios in...
In recognition of two years of Israel’s relentless genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, as well as National Disability Awareness Month in the U.S., Middle East Peace Now invites you to a virtual screening of the powerful, new, short documentary Severed The Story of a Boy From Gaza. Severed follows Mohamad Saleh, a Palestinian teenager from Gaza who lost his leg at only 12 years old, and...
Presenters: Mohammed Mayaleh and Angel Dobrow In 2017 Minnesota joined 36 other states by introducing into law measures that require businesses and individuals who want to obtain a contract over $50,000 with the state of Minnesota to certify they are not and will not boycott the state of Israel. These anti-boycott laws directly violate our constitutionally protected right to free speech. ...
TOPIC: From Palestine to Minnesota: Navigating Difficult Conversations and Taking Actions That Can Change and Save Lives PRESENTERS: Ruben Slomianski, Julie Elhard, and Ariella Tilden To all who were able to be at our MEPN summer In-Person Event on Saturday, August 2, thank you for attending. We hope the workshop, presented by Ariella Tilsen, Julie Elhard and Ruben Slomiensksi, was productive....
Moneer Rifai addresses "Winning Hearts, Building Bridges: A Civil Dialogue Approach to Palestinian Solidarity"10am Central time on Zoom, Saturday, June 14, 2025 How do we move beyond echo chambers and bring more people into the movement for Palestinian rights? In this presentation, Moneer Rifai shares a different kind of activism, one rooted in extreme empathy, human connection, and...
May 17th topic: "The theological battleground: a moment of truth for U.S. society and for the church" A presentation and conversation with Dr. Mark Braverman. Mark was with us in April and addressed "Gaza, Trump II, and the great unmasking – an inflection point for the movement". In May, he looks at developments that bear on political and cultural developments in the U.S. and for the church...
Watch a YouTube recording of this April 19th forum A Forum in two parts (April 19 and May 17) Part 1: Gaza, Trump II, and the great unmasking - an inflection point for the movement As the genocidal intent of Israel’s settler colonial project has become inescapably clear, strategies informed by the liberal Zionist desire to rescue or reform the Zionist project have been replaced by a focus on...
Watch the YouTube recording of this forum The Palestinian refugee presence in Lebanon is a direct result of the Nakba in 1948, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homeland. Over 75 years later, Lebanon continues to host a significant Palestinian population, living mostly in refugee camps under difficult conditions. This forum examines the historical...
