Grassroots, Nonviolent Resistance to Israeli Apartheid in Palestine

Feryal Abu Haikal and Mohammed Khatib live in communities that are immediately threatened with destruction and expulsion by the Israeli military and settlers. They will speak of their personal experiences mobilizing their communities to nonviolently resist these measures.

MOHAMMED KHATIB is a leading member of the Bil’in Village Popular Committee Against the Wall and the Secretary of the Bil’in Village Council in the West Bank. He has been a principle organizer of the two-year, creative nonviolent struggle in Bil’in to prevent the construction of Israel’s Wall on Bil’in land and to block the expansion of neighboring Israeli settlements

FERYAL ABU HAIKAL recently retired after 11 years as the headmistress at Qurtuba School in the ancient heart of the West Bank city of Hebron. Despite settler attacks on students and staff, the Qurtuba School continues to function, serving as a model of nonviolent resistance to Israeli occupation. A lifelong resident of Tel Rumeida, Feryal remains in her home with her family despite continual Israeli settler attacks.

This event is free and open to the community and is wheelchair accessible.

Sponsored by St. Mary’s College Department of Politics, the Department of Sociology, the Department of History, and Women’s Studies