The Palestine/Israel Peace and Education Project
presents a series of events to raise awareness about the situation in Israel and Palestine and foster understanding and dialouge of this critical issue.

Holy Land, Holy City: Islam, Judaism and Religious Politics of Nationalism
Tuesday, February 12, 7 p.m., Templeton, Council Chamber

Lewis & Clark professors Oren Kosansky and Paul Powers will discuss the various roles religion has played in the relations between Israelis and Palestinians, challenging the notions that Judaism and Islam are inherently antithetical to one another and that Arab-Israeli relations can be understood as primarily determined by religious conflict.

Eyewitness Panel Discussion
Wednesday, February 13,Templeton, Stamm, 7 p.m.

Will Seaman, independent media activist and co-hosts of ONE LAND, MANY VOICES, for KBOO radio. Seamons runs the organization pdxjustice Media Productions. He worked for six months on a kibbutz and traveled into the occupied territories, including Gaza, with the Faculty for Israeli Palestinian Peace and as an independent journalist.


Peter Miller, President of Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights. Miller has traveled to Israel and Palestine and witnessed first hand the closures, checkpoints, settlements, and the building of Israel's new system of walls and fences on Palestinian lands.

Reverend Richard Toll, an Episcopal priest for forty years and Chair of the Friends of Sabeel Network. Toll has traveled extensively through Israel and Palestine supporting Christian voice and working for peace in the Holy Land.


Thursday, February 14, Critical Focus Film Festival, Miller 105

The Inner Tour, 1 p.m.
Inner Tour tells the story of a group of tourists on a visit to their homeland. Filmed in 2000, just months before the current Middle East clashes erupted, it recounts the adventures of a group of West Bank Palestinians taking a three-day sightseeing tour of Israel.

Gaza Strip, 3:30 p.m.
Gaza Strip pushes the viewer headlong into the tumult of the Israeli-occupied Gaza, examining the lives and views of ordinary Palestinians at a crucial point in the intifada.

Promises, 5 p.m.
Rather than focusing on political events, the seven Palestinian and Israeli children featured in PROMISES offer a refreshing, human and sometimes humorous portrait of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Promises explores the nature of these boundaries and tells the story of a few children who dared to cross the lines to meet their neighbors.

Events are free and open to the general public.