February 6th Daoud Nassar from Tent of Nations will be visiting 3D and the Vrije Universiteit to tell us about the hardship he and his family experienced living on the Westbank in Palestine. Tent of Nations became known for their relentless search for peace and continuous refusal to be enemies.
The Palestinian Christian Nassar family in Bethlehem runs the Tent of Nations farm near Bethlehem. They purchased their land in 1916, have the ownership documents, but have since 1991 been engaged in an exhausting legal battle with the Israeli authorities who claim that their land belongs to the state of Israel. Meanwhile, settlers intimidate the family, build roads on their land, and have established a new outpost right behind the fence surrounding the Nassar property. International volunteers provide a basic form of “protective presence” around the farm that has become a symbol of resilience.
Speaker:
Daoud Nassar, a Palestinian farmer and human rights activist. He runs the Tent of Nations farm in Bethlehem. Despite the extreme difficult circumstances, the Nassar family is committed to nonviolent resistance.
Moderator: Janneke Stegeman
Janneke Stegeman is a theologian who earned her PhD at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam with a dissertation on conflict and power in religious traditions, titled Decolonizing Jeremiah. Her work is rooted in liberation theology, postcolonial theology, and Indecent Theology, a radical, embodied approach to theology.
This event is co-organized with Vrienden van Tent of Nations Nederland, www.tentofnations.nl
