BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:32354@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240317T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240317T173000 DTSTAMP:20240302T194048Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/israeli-apartheid-in-action-water-c ontrol/ SUMMARY:Israeli Apartheid in Action: Water Control DESCRIPTION:On Sunday March 17\, join the discussion\, “Israeli Apartheid in Action: Water Control.” Register at\n\ntinyurl.com/VFHL-March2024\n\ nView the videos\, then join the discussion. Voices From the Holy Land Onl ine Film Salon is the sponsor of the salon\, with co-sponsors Alliance f or Water Justice in Palestine and Progressive Workers Union.\nWatch th e trailer at\ntinyurl.com/VFHL-March2024Trailer.\n\nAbstract:\nControlling the supply\, distribution\, and cost of water to an occupied people is  apartheid in action. Israel\, through legal and illegal means\, mainta ins near-complete control over the region’s freshwater aquifers\, seve rely restricting Palestinians’ abilities to drill wells\, install pumps\ , build water tanks\, or even collect rainwater. The average Israeli c onsumes over 3 times the water used by Palestinians on the water grid in the West Bank (9 times the water used by those off the grid). West Ba nk Palestinians pay 1/3 or more of their income to Israeli companies for drinking water. Meanwhile\, Gazans are now consuming less than 3 liters per day—hardly enough for survival. VFHL offers three short videos descr ibing the “hydropolitics” and structural water apartheid in the Hol y Land. Our panel discussion will explore designed inequalities in water  distribution\; the physical\, economic and regulatory controls\; as well as the ecological problems of pollution and over-extraction.\n\nPanelists :\nNancy Murray is a co-founder of the Alliance for Water Justice in Pa lestine and co-founder and president of the Massachusetts-based Gaza Menta l Health Foundation. She has been an activist for peace with justice in th e Middle East since 1988\, traveling often to the West Bank and Gaza Strip . She has taught at universities and prisons and worked on human rights is sues in the United Kingdom and Kenya. Nancy served as director of educatio n at the ACLU of Massachusetts for 25 years. She is the author of Palesti nians: Life Under Occupation and several book chapters and articles on Is rael/Palestine.\n\nMazin Qumsiyeh is founder and volunteer director of th e Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability at Bethlehem Uni versity. He has published hundreds of scientific papers\, book chapters\, and articles\, in addition to several books including Sharing the Land of Canaan and Popular Resistance in Palestine. Topics of his work include \, among others\, the environmental impact of colonization\, environmental and climate justice\, and human rights. Mazin oversaw the formulation of a National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan and has spearheaded num erous empowerment projects. He publishes the blog\, Popular Resistance.\n\ nEyal Hareuveni is a researcher at B’Tselem\, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. He is the author of  Parched: Israel's Policy of Water Deprivation in the West Bank\, publ ished by B’Tselem in April 2023. In addition to water\, Eyal has explor ed such topics as settlements\, East Jerusalem\, and the separation barrie r\, authoring the report Standing Idly By: IDF Soldiers’ Inaction in th e Face of Offenses Perpetrated by Israelis against Palestinians in the Wes t Bank. He is a peace activist who refused to serve in the Israeli milit ary.\n\nJeff Halper (moderator) is an Israeli anthropologist\, director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)\, and a foun ding member of the One Democratic State Campaign. He has served on the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian Peo ple. In 2008\, Jeff sailed with the Free Gaza Movement to break the siege. AFSC nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize\, together with Palestinian Ghassan Andoni. Jeff’s latest books are Decolonizing Israel\, Liberatin g Palestine: Zionism\, Settler Colonialism and the Case for One Democratic State and War Against the People: Israel\, the Palestinians and Global Pacification.\n\n** ************** **\nSUPPORTER Organizations: Israel/Pal estine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) * Palestinian C hristian Alliance for Peace * Quaker Palestine Israel Network * Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East * Indiana Center for Middle E ast Peace * Disciples of Christ Palestine Israel Network * Virginia Coalit ion for Human Rights * Mennonite Palestine Israel Network * Friends of Sab eel North America * Center for Jewish Nonviolence * Episcopal Peace Fellow ship Palestine Israel Network * Northern New Jersey Jewish Voice for Peace * United Church of Christ Palestine Israel Network * Pace e Bene Nonviole nce Service * Churches for Middle East Peace * Kairos Puget Sound Coalitio n * Pax Christi USA * Jewish Voice for Peace–San Diego *\n\nHow this wil l work:\n\n1 - Register here for the Voices from the Holy Land Online Fi lm Salon: tinyurl.com/VFHL-March2024\n\n2 – Once you register\, you wi ll get a confirmation email from Zoom with a link to the meeting and a lin k to watch the film.  (Save that confirmation letter as the meeting link is unique to your email\, and you must have this to participate.)\n\n3 - Watch the film at your convenience before the event.  Then join us with y our thoughts and questions for our speakers at the Q&\;A Discussion on March 17\, 2024.\nPlease share this announcement with your friends\, famil y\, and community.  Download the event flyer and post it to your social m edia.\n\n \;\n\nFor questions &\; comments please contact us at\nvf hlonlinefilmsalon@gmail.com\nVisit our website at www.voicesfromtheholyla nd.org\nYouTube: www.youtube.com/@voicesfromtheholyland2335\nInstagram:  www.instagram.com/voicesfromtheholyland/\nJoin us at Facebook.com/voicesh olyland\n** *** ** ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 024/03/voices-from-the-holy-land-2017_0.jpg CATEGORIES:Documentary END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR