Please join us as we view and discuss SUMUD: A Doctor’s Report on Genocide and Survival. The film follows an American anesthesiologist volunteering in Gaza, with commentary on the genocide by Omar El-Akkad, Egyptian-Canadian journalist. A discussion will follow the 27 min. viewing of the [...]
Trump's "Peace Proposal", the UN Security Council resolution and their significance for the future of Gaza Phyllis Bennis and Richard Falk will focus on the developments on the ground in Gaza, the US role and Trump’s “peace” plan, the consequences of the latest UN Security [...]
To launch our Palestine film series, we present Wajib (2017). The film offers a rare, intimate, and authentic glimpse into the everyday lives of middle-class Palestinians in Nazareth. It is a humorous family drama about a father and his estranged son forced to spend a [...]
Join MAPA’s Power Hour on Jan. 29 at 6pm to make calls in support of the Israel Divestment Bill. Despite the supposed “ceasefire” in Gaza, Israel has continued its genocide of Palestinians through airstrikes, gunfire, blocking aid, and destroying homes. The Israel Divestment Bill is [...]
Sari Bashi, internationally renowned human rights lawyer and the executive director of the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel. Sari lives in a mixed Israeli-Palestinian family, which is the subject of her new memoir, Upside-Down Love. Sari will share her perspective on the ceasefire in [...]
How do you respond to someone who refers to the U.S. and Israel’s continued military rule in Gaza a “peace plan”? What can you say to someone who describes the continued starvation, bombing, and shooting of Palestinians a “ceasefire”? Join us for a practical salon/workshop [...]
US imperial intervention has denied Iranians and Palestinians self-determination for 75 years. Coupled with an examination of the U.S./Israel/Iran crisis, Jeremy Scahill and Rami Khouri reveal how the president’s "board of peace" promises a new, dangerous and unaccountable stage of U.S./European/Israeli policy in the Middle [...]
We present State of Passion, a feature-length documentary film by Carol Mansour and Muna Khalidi. After 43 horrific days working round the clock under constant bombardment in the emergency rooms of Gaza’s Al Shifa and Al Ahli hospitals, British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, emerged [...]
A Strategy Conference Saturday, March 7, 2026, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Cambridge Friends Meeting, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge, MA 02138 The very existence of Palestinians as a viable national community is existentially threatened by the Trump-Netanyahu Gaza agreement, now officially adopted by the United [...]
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We present From Ground Zero, a powerful collection of short films by 22 Palestinian filmmakers living through war and genocide in Gaza. The stories in Palestine's Official Submission for the 2025 Academy Awards, From Ground Zero, capture the unyielding steadfastness of the human spirit and [...]
REGISTER HERE: bit.ly/dsp41526 This will be in Cambridge, MA - location coming soon Jewish Voice for Peace Boston invites you to hear from academic workers who have been harmed by the weaponization of antisemitism in Massachusetts. This panel will situate local attacks on education about [...]
A call for a solemn mass protest at the 2026 Harvard Commencement on May 28. It is time to make both the genocide and raging ethnic cleansing of Palestine and our support for Palestinian self-determination visible once again. It’s time to pressure our educational, medical, [...]
In order to confront the ghosts that haunt him, Palestinian director Raed Andoni assembles an eclectic group of ex prisoners to recreate the Al-Moskobiya, Israel's main interrogation centre, where he was himself jailed at age 18. Day after day, these construction workers, a blacksmith, an [...]
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