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Date(s) - Saturday, January 15, 2022
10:00 am - 11:30 am
HOPE STILL RISES
Daoud Nassar, Palestinian Christian and founder Tent of Nations peace center, will share the story of his family’s struggle to maintain the ownership of their farm located outside of Bethlehem in the West Bank. A recent video of the farm will take you there, and show you the concrete ways in which they have embodied their hope for the land and its future. Their non-violent resistance to the occupation and their message of “refusing to be enemies” has given hope to thousands around the world. The family has been in the Israeli courts since 1991 seeking to maintain their claim to this land. Daoud will update us on the critical juncture they now face in the process of attempting to re-register their land, and speak of the particular challenges of living the last two years in the midst of the pandemic.
About the Speaker: Daoud Nassar, a Palestinian Christian farmer, is Director of the Tent of Nations Project: an educational and environmentally conscious farm that seeks to build bridges between people, and between people and the land. The farm has been in his family since 1916. It is located 6 kilometers from Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. The one-hundred acre farm is surrounded on three sides by Israeli Settlements, and below by the Palestinian village of Nahalin. In October 2018, Tent of Nations and the Nassar Family received a Peace Award from the World Methodist Council. That same year Daoud was among 15 individuals to receive the Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law.
Please direct questions about this event to mepn@mepn.org.
Thank you to our forum sponsors, Friends of the Tent of Nations North America (FOTONNA), Jewish Voice for Peace – Twin Cities, Northfielders for Justice in Palestine/Israel, Women Against Military Madness
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