NJ’s Amazing Pro-Palestine Calendar Keeper – March 13 2024
The following is the product of a NJ resident who has been keeping a pro-Palestine calendar literally for years – possibly over a decade. They are preferring anonymity – but approved circulation of the important information. There is some analysis that comes with the announcements which is welcome on FightBackBetter.com . ed.
Mar7aba everyone,
A lot has transpired in the past week, and it will take some time to make sense of all the analyses, but the most positive development has to be Senator Van Hollen calling on the Biden Administration to stop weapons to Israel, as long as they actively impeded US humanitarian aid to Palestinians.
A bit of good news — a Real Estate event scheduled for this afternoon in a Flatbush synagogue, which would have marketed stolen Palestinian land and Israeli settlement property, has been cancelled. This is a Palestine solidarity movement victory, but there will be many more such real estate events happening again soon in our NY/NJ area, so keep your eyes peeled.
Organizers have shifted the scheduled protest into a Victory celebration and vigil for the martyrs — check out the details below:
=== New York ===
Wed. 13 March 2024 @ 3 p.m. ● VICTORY! Sale of Stolen Palestinian Land in Flatbush was Shut Down—Join Us for a Vigil
🚨 The illegal real estate sale of stolen Palestinian land in Flatbush, Brooklyn was CANCELLED! We urge you to join us instead today on 3/13 for a VIGIL to honor all that has been taken:
#GloryToOurMartyrs
#GloryToOurMartyrs
Brooklyn, NY ● Grand Army Plaza
Also happening today: Monmouth County 4 Palestine is organizing a rally to motivate supporters for a Ceasefire Resolution in Asbury Park, NJ. Please join us this evening!
=== New Jersey ===
Wed. 13 March 2024 @ 5 p.m. ● Rally for Palestine in Asbury Park, NJ
Help us grow needed support for Palestine and pressure officials into calling a 📣 *CEASEFIRE NOW* 📣 in these CRUCIAL parts of NJ! ✊🇵🇸🤲❤️ The Asbury Park City Council meeting will not start til 6, but it is encouraged to get there early.
❗️We NEED numbers — Bring all your energy meant for the march into advocating for a Ceasefire Resolution!
❗️We NEED numbers — Bring all your energy meant for the march into advocating for a Ceasefire Resolution!
Asbury Park, NJ ● 1 Municipal Plaza
=== Next Week ===
- 17 March 2024 ● Israeli Apartheid in Action—Water Control
- 18 March 2024 ● Holding My Brother — Resistance as Affective Practice in Contemporary Palestinian Art @ Columbia
- 19 March 2024 ● Rutgers EJC Die In @ Rutgers Livingston
- 19 March 2024 ● FOR’s March 2024 Gathering Voices with Rabbi May Ye
- 19 March 2024 ● Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom @ Columbia
- 20 March 2024 ● Palestinian Filmmaker and Vocalist Dina Amin—Palestinian Stories
- 21 March 2024 ● Origins and Outcomes of U.S. Defense Policy Toward Israel @ Rutgers Law
- 21 March 2024 ● Conversation on the Gaza Genocide with Norman Finkelstein & Chris Hedges @ Princeton
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21 March 2024 ● The AMESALL Film Series—Cinema of Palestine: “Jenin, Jenin” @ Rutgers
- 22 March 2024 ● Samia Halaby — Art & Activism @ The People’s Forum
=== Coming Soon ===
- 24 March 2024 ● Unpacking the ICJ Provisional Measures
- 24 & 25 March 2024 ● Gate of the Sun Screening + Artist Talk @ Philly
- 24~29 March 2024 ● Gaza Ceasefire Pilgrimage — Philadelphia, PA
- 25 March~5 April ● The Weight of Witness @ Rutgers Bloustein School
- 27 March ● Straight from Jenin—Alaa Shehada @ PACC
- 27 March 2024 ● Colonizing Palestine—The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba @ Columbia
- 30 March 2024 ● MARCH WITH PALESTINE FOR LAND & LIBERATION ON LAND DAY! @ Times SQ
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4 April 2024 ● Minor Detail: Trespassing the Limits of Language @ Princeton
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10 April 2024 ● Palestine Teach In on Political Zionism
- 18 April 2024 ● In Conversation Series—Susan Muaddi Darraj @ Rutgers Camden
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18 April 2024 ● The AMESALL Film Series—Cinema of Palestine: “3000 Nights” @ Rutgers
Per usual, please find calendar briefs below, and calendar details in the attached Word .doc file.
=== New Jersey ===
Sundays @ 3 p.m. ● SOMA Demands Ceasefire Now
Join us as we call for #ceasefirenow 🇵🇸 to stop the genocide and lament the famine Israel is causing in Gaza.
Maplewood, NJ ● Ricalton Square
Wednesdays @ 12 noon ● STOP FUNDING GENOCIDE Senator Booker
Sen. Booker is still supporting unconditional military aid for the state of Israel, even as the Netanyahu government finalizes its plans for a ground invasion of Rafah, where 1.5 million displaced Palestinians will have no place to flee to. #Stoparmingisrael #Ceasefirenow
Sen. Booker is still supporting unconditional military aid for the state of Israel, even as the Netanyahu government finalizes its plans for a ground invasion of Rafah, where 1.5 million displaced Palestinians will have no place to flee to. #Stoparmingisrael #Ceasefirenow
Newark, NJ ● One Gateway Center
Wed. 13 March 2024 @ 5 p.m. ● Rally for Palestine in Asbury Park, NJ
Help us grow needed support for Palestine and pressure officials into calling a 📣 *CEASEFIRE NOW* 📣 in these CRUCIAL parts of NJ! ✊🇵🇸🤲❤️ The Asbury Park City Council meeting will not start til 6, but it is encouraged to get there early.
❗️We NEED numbers — Bring all your energy meant for the march into advocating for a Ceasefire Resolution!
❗️We NEED numbers — Bring all your energy meant for the march into advocating for a Ceasefire Resolution!
Asbury Park, NJ ● 1 Municipal Plaza
Tues. 19 March 2024 @ 1:30 p.m. ● Rutgers EJC Die In
On Tuesday, March 19, EJC will organize a die in at livi circle. Illustrating how, in President Holloway’s continuing financing and normalization of settler-colonialism and apartheid, he has knowingly or unknowingly supported the ongoing genocidal campaign that threatens Palestinian families, the kin and beloved of so many students, faculty, and staff. SHOW UP for 🇵🇸.
Piscataway, NJ ● Livi Circle (behind the Livingston Student Center), Rutgers University, 84 Joyce Kilmer Avenue
Wed. 20 March 2024 @ 3:30 p.m. ● Palestinian Filmmaker and Vocalist Dina Amin—Palestinian Stories
Join us as Dina Amin showcases a selection of short films and music videos that she directed, which delve into Palestinian culture and the spirit of resilience. Following the screening, she will engage in a Q&A session.
Galloway, NJ ● Campus Center Meeting Room 5, Stockton University, 101 Vera King Farris Dr.
Thurs. 21 March 2024 @ 12 noon ● Origins and Outcomes of U.S. Defense Policy Toward Israel
Former U.S. State Department official, Josh Paul, will examine how U.S. security and defense policy undermines American interests abroad and its most fundamental values at home.
In-person Registration: https://go.rutgers.edu/rve6on2f
Online Registration: https://go.rutgers.edu/joshpaul
Online Registration: https://go.rutgers.edu/joshpaul
Hybrid ● Rutgers Law School Room 125, 123 Washington Street, Newark, NJ
Thurs. 21 March 2024 @ 4:30 p.m. ● Conversation on the Gaza Genocide with Norman Finkelstein & Chris Hedges
Norman Finkelstein is author of “Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom”
Chris Hedges is Pulitzer prize-winning former New York Times Middle East Bureau Chief
Chris Hedges is Pulitzer prize-winning former New York Times Middle East Bureau Chief
Princeton, NJ ● McCosh 50, Princeton University
Thurs. 21 March 2024 @ 7 p.m. ● The AMESALL Film Series—Cinema of Palestine: “Jenin, Jenin”
Jenin, Jenin (2002), directed by Mohammed Bakri, deals with the events of Jenin in April 2002, when the Israeli Army invaded the West Bank town and the refugee camp as part of the so-called “Operation Defensive Shield.” Jenin Jenin” demonstrates the extent of Israeli oppression and terror and the effects they have left behind.
Watch the trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyltWpcnOBQ
New Brunswick, NJ ● Academic Building, Room 4140, Rutgers University, 15 Seminary Place
Mon. 25 March~Fri. 5 April ● The Weight of Witness
Opening Reception March 28th, 6-9 pm
When we witness, our memories become evidence and sharing those memories is the only chance we have at our collective survival.
Join us in honoring the lives taken in Palestine, standing in solidarity with local and global resistance efforts, and urging Rutgers to DIVEST NOW.
When we witness, our memories become evidence and sharing those memories is the only chance we have at our collective survival.
Join us in honoring the lives taken in Palestine, standing in solidarity with local and global resistance efforts, and urging Rutgers to DIVEST NOW.
New Brunswick, NJ ● 33 Livingston Avenue
Wed. 27 March ● Straight from Jenin—Alaa Shehada
Join us for a Ramadan Community Iftar and a performance by Alaa Shehada, who is a graduate of The Freedom Theatre’s Acting School, co-founder of The Palestine Comedy Club, and a doctor clown in Palestinian hospitals with Red Noses International. He is also a member of Troupe Courage in Amsterdam.
Clifton, NJ ● Palestinian American Community Center, 388 Lakeview Avenue
Thurs. 4 April 2024 @ 4:30 p.m. ● Minor Detail: Trespassing the Limits of Language
Lecture by Adania Shibli, Palestinian author and essayist. Her latest is the novel Tafsil Thanawi (Al-Adab, 2017, translated as Minor Detail, Fitzcarraldo Edition/UK, and New Directions/USA, 2020), which was shortlisted for the National Book Award in 2020, and in 2021 it was nominated for the International Booker Prize.
RSVP (Princeton NetID only): https://ptic.princeton.edu/events/2024/minor-detail-trespassing-limits-language
Princeton, NJ ● Lewis Library (Room 138), Princeton University
Wed. 10 April 2024 @ 12 noon ● Palestine Teach In on Political Zionism
Speaker will be Dr. Zachary Foster, Senior Fellow at Rutgers Center for Security, Race, and Rights
Register: https://go.rutgers.edu/teachin2024
Online ● ZOOM web conference meeting
Thurs. 18 April 2024 @ 12:45 p.m. ● In Conversation Series—Susan Muaddi Darraj
The Writers House welcomes writer and MFA alum Susan Muaddi Darraj for a reading and Q&A moderated by ISGRJ Postdoctoral Fellow andie millares.
Susan will be reading from and discussing her book Behind You Is The Sea, which was published this winter by HarperCollins and received starred reviews from Booklist and Kirkus. Funny and touching, Behind You Is the Sea brings us into the homes and lives of three main families—the Baladis, the Salamehs, and the Ammars—Palestinian immigrants who’ve all found a different welcome in America.
Susan will be reading from and discussing her book Behind You Is The Sea, which was published this winter by HarperCollins and received starred reviews from Booklist and Kirkus. Funny and touching, Behind You Is the Sea brings us into the homes and lives of three main families—the Baladis, the Salamehs, and the Ammars—Palestinian immigrants who’ve all found a different welcome in America.