Historic Anti-Apartheid Initiative Launching June 6, 2023
American Friends Service Committee is holding a webinar launching the Apartheid-Free Communities initiative!
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
5 pm Pacific / 8 pm Eastern
This date was chosen because it represents the beginning of Israel's military occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza in 1967.
Please join UUJME and allies (register here) for the Apartheid-Free Communities Public Launch Webinar (5 pm Pacific/8 p.m. Eastern) with special guests and signatory representatives:
- Jonathan Kuttab, an international human rights lawyer and Executive Director of Friends of Sabeel North America
- Rev. Wendell Griffen, a retired judge, local pastor and board member of the Alliance of Baptists
- Dov Baum, Director of the Economic Activism Program at American Friends Service Committee and activist in Boycott from Within, Israelis for BDS, and
- Rabbi Brant Rosen, a rabbi and co-founder of the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical council and the Jewish Fast for Gaza.
Register here for the Apartheid-Free Communities Public Launch webinar.
Look for the launch on social media ahead of the webinar on June 6th with the hashtag #ApartheidFree at 10 a.m. Pacific/1 pm Eastern and help boost publicity!
UUJME is excited to anticipate sharing broadly the growing movement of Apartheid-Free Communities working together to end Israel’s apartheid regime, settler colonialism, and military occupation!
