A free, hour-long, unusually informative film about the situation in the West Bank of Palestine by Anna Baltzer, Jewish-American author and activist will be followed by response & discussion & refreshments.

The hour-long film, “Life in Occupied Palestine,” was produced by and features Anna Baltzer, a young scholar who spent many months in the West Bank. Baltzer is also the author of Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories. She has spoken to audiences throughout the United States.

The event is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by CNY Working for a Just Peace in Palestine and Israel. A Response and discussion will follow the film. There’ll be refreshments.

To learn more about Anna Baltzer, visit her website www.annainthemiddleeast.com.###

Founded in the wake of the December ’08 Israeli attack on Gaza, CNY Working for a Just Peace in Palestine and Israel (CNY/WJPPI) is a community educational and organizing project. Coordinated by the Syracuse Peace Council, it includes people active in the local Methodist Task Force for Middle East Peace, the Islamic Society of Central New York, Al Huda Muslim American Society Mosque, and Syracuse Jews for Peace.

ArtRage is handicapped accessible. Off-street parking at 408 & 414 Lodi Street.