Loading ...The Palestine Exception Film Screening + Q&A
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Date(s) - 02/27/2025
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
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Westhope Presbyterian Church
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Free USD
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Arab American Cultural Center
Join us for a thought-provoking evening! Watch the newly released documentary The Palestine Exception, directed by Jan Haaken and Jennifer Ruth, and stay for a Q&A session with Marlene Eid and Rochelle McLaughlin.
As students across the country organize protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, decades-long taboos in academia around criticism of Israel–the “Palestine exception”–are shattered. This film features professors and students as they join calls for a ceasefire and divestment from companies that do business with Israel and face waves of crackdown from administrators, the media, the police, and politicians.
A donation of $10-20 per person is suggested to support mutual aid efforts for families in Palestine. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds.
Co-Sponsors
- Arab American Cultural Center of Silicon Valley
- San Jose Peace & Justice Center
- San Jose Against War
- Westhope Presbyterian Church (Saratoga)
- Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) South Bay
- Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) Bay Area
Q&A Bios:
Marlene Eid: Marlene Eid, graduate of the Sorbonne university, in Paris, is a psychology faculty at Portland Community College (PCC). Marlene is a Palestinian American born and reared in East Jerusalem, where she grew up under Israeli military occupation.
She is a lifelong advocate of Palestinian human rights, and a defender of social justice issues. In 1990, Marlene was one of the founding members of the “Gaza Community Mental Health Program” in Gaza city, northern Gaza.
Marlene is the co-producer of The Palestine Exception Film/documentary.
Rochelle McLaughlin: Rochelle McLaughlin taught at SJSU within the College of Health and Human Sciences for 20 years until she resigned this December due to SJSU’s support for the U.S.-Israeli genocide in Palestine.
During her time at SJSU, Rochelle founded an Advanced Certificate program, engaged in research, and authored multiple chapters in professional textbooks sold globally. She co-produced and co-taught for SJSU’s Anti-Racist Institute and worked on SJSU’s DEI team until 2022 when she focused her DEI efforts in the county she lives in where she has been advocating for equal representation of Palestinian and Arab American culture within the school system.
Rochelle is currently working with Doctors Against Genocide and the Stanford Healthcare Workers for Palestine to continue to organize for a free Palestine and amplify the truth.
