Reverend Dr. Naim Ateek, an internationally known Palestinian Christian, will spend two weeks in April on a cross Canada book tour, promoting his most recent book “A Palestinian Theology of Liberation: The Bible, Justice, and the Palestine–Israel Conflict.” Read more…
Rev. Dr. Naim Ateek is Co-founder of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Centre in Jerusalem and the former Canon of St. George’s Cathedral in Jerusalem. For three decades he has inspired readers with his ideas about justice and reconciliation in the Holy Land.
He will be coming to Canada in April as a guest of Canadian Friends of Sabeel (CFOS) to promote his thoughtful new book A Palestinian Theology of Liberation: The Bible, Justice, and the Palestine–Israel Conflict, on the Israel/Palestine issue and how to solve it.
“In this book,” remarks Nancy Cardoso, of the World Council of Churches’ Palestine and Israel Ecumenical Forum, “we hear the scream and the whisper of the poor, the sounds of death in the Occupied Territories, but also the whisper of life, resisting and offering hope for all of us.”
In his foreward , Walter Brueggemann, widely considered one of the most influential Old Testament scholars of the last several decades, says of Ateek’s book “Naim Ateek offers a succinct primer on liberation theology in the context of the Palestinian struggle for freedom and self-determination.”
Dates and locations
April 20 – Kelowna: 7 pm, First Mennonite Church, 1305 Gordon Dr.
April 22 – Vancouver: 6:30 pm: St Mary’s Anglican Church, 2490 West 37 Ave.
April 23 – Abbotsford: 7 pm, Theatre Room B101, UFV campus
April 25 – Winnipeg: 7 pm, Marpeck Commons, Canadian Mennonite University, 2299 Grant Ave.
April 27 – St. John’s: 7 pm: Queen’s College, Memorial University Campus, Prince Philip Dr.
April 29 – Halifax: 7 pm, Saint Mary’s University, Sobey’s building, 923 Robie St.
April 30 – Hamilton: 7 pm, New Vision United Church, 24 Main St. East
May 1 – Kitchener/Waterloo: 7:30 pm, Conrad Grebel University, Great Hall (1111), 140 Westmount Rd. North
May 2 – Toronto: 7 pm, Muzzo Family Alumni Hall, St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto, 121 St. Joseph St.
On May 3, Dr Ateek will lead an all day course in Toronto on Palestinian Liberation Theology. Register on line: https://friendsofsabeel.ca/featured/palestinian-theology-of-liberation-course/
For more information.
https://www.facebook.com/SabeelCanada/ OR https://friendsofsabeel.ca/
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Thanks so much for promoting this Peter. Kelowna is the first stop so we are looking forward to hearing Naim.
Why isn’t he coming to Montreal? What are we — chopped liver? David PintoMontreal
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Hey David, I’m sure if you could put up the extra money for a Montreal stop, it could be discussed with the organizers…
Sorry about flying over Ottawa and Montreal. We answered positively to everyone who responded to our invitation in December to organize an event locally. He’s doing 8 cities in 15 days.
Peter, just noted that B’nai Brith Canada has initiated a campaign to brand Naim Ateeq and his book currently on tour as anti semitic. Charge seems to be based on one reference to Jewish traditional law favouring the testimony of Jews over non Jews without any proof that this is in fact an incorrect reference or “anti Semitic.”
It is certainly not based on the many thousands of references on Reverend Ateeq’s current “liberation theology” approach to support peace and justice in the Middle East where Jews and Arabs and Israel and Palestine can coexist in some form of equality and mutual respect of religious, human and minority rights.
While there is nothing new in charges of anti semitism being used against critics of Israel, including prominent Jewish and Israeli activist orgs themselves, this seems to be a particularly egregious use of this dismissive defamatory technique. It is all the more serious when B,nai Brith calls for police investigations and the investigation leading to cancellation of charitable status of Sabeel.
Wonder if anyone has been able to attend a session with Naim Ateeq or read his book. (as B’nai Brith claims It has) because it would be interesting to get views from more balanced and credible observers. . For what it’s worth I could not find one ounce of anti Semitism in Ateeq’s Utube videos despite the loss of his home and family in 1948 and the religious context from whence he speaks. ( Hope there is no implication that all Christians are anti Semites a charge that sometimes appears in Israeli or Jewish nationalist circles). Indeed, the fact that Naim Ateeq has stayed on in Israel (Nazareth and Jerusalem) as an Israeli citizen to administer to mainly Christian Palestinians is very strong proof against anti semitism..
Given the circumstances, the case of Naiml Ateeq is a very unlikely case of anti Semitism indeed, where the careless unsubstanciated charge of anti semitism itself could be considered defamatory hate speech in a Canadian legal context.
George Jacoby
Ottawa, Canada