Upcoming Events:
Joint Nakba Remembrance Ceremony
May 15, 2024, 1:00 pm Eastern Time
- Joint Nakba Ceremony: The Joint Nakba Remembrance Ceremony is a unique opportunity to commemorate the pain and tragedy of the Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic). Broadcast from the Occupied Territories. See information to register online
Rally at Pioneer Park
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 at 2:00 p.m.
Past Events:
The 19th Israeli-Palestinian Joint Memorial Day Ceremony
May 12th, 2024, 1:30 pm Eastern Time
- Joint Memorial Ceremony: It is the largest Israeli-Palestinian jointly organized peace event. Broadcast from Israel. See more information
Saturday, May 4, 2024 @ 2:30 pm
At a time when most eyes are on Gaza, the Israeli Forces have carried out four raids on cities and seven on villages within the West Bank, and Israeli colonists in the illegal settlements are carrying out their own daily violent attacks on Palestinians. Since October 7, Israel has arrested 8,480 Palestinians throughout the West Bank, about 3,660 of them held illegally under administrative detention with no charges brought against them. (Aljazeera, April 27, 2024)
Join us on Saturday, May 4, 2024 @ 2:30 as we take a look at Palestine, beyond Gaza, and consider how the occupation playbook was actually written in the streets of Hebron, West Bank.
Sat. May 4, 2024 @ 2:30 pm
H2: the Occupation Lab
Free Film Screening, followed by:
Q&A from Hebron via Zoom
Salt Lake Public Library Auditorium
210 E 400 S, Salt Lake City, Utah
“Segregated, highly surveilled, heavily filmed, and intensely guarded, H2 is the only Palestinian city with a Jewish settlement in it. Through rare archive footage and interviews with Hebron’s military commanders, H2: The Occupation Lab uncovers the ways in which a single neighborhood in Hebron fuels the entire Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The film tells the story of 54 years of military occupation and the place that is both a microcosm of the entire conflict and a test site for the methods of control Israel is implementing throughout the West Bank.”
Q&A to follow with:
- Tamrika Khvtisiashvili, former Assistant Professor at Palestine Polytechnic University in Hebron, now in Salt Lake City
- Dr. Mohammad Tamimi, Director of the Language & Translation Center at Palestine Polytechnic University in Hebron
- Hamed Qawasmeh, co-founder and former director of the Hebron International Resource Network
Hamad Qawasmeh, with HIRN
Monday, April 29, 2024 @ 4:00 pm
Palestinian Solidarity of Utah and others will rally for Palestine
University of Utah Presidents’ Circle
“We are at a critical moment in the global struggle for Palestinian liberation where we must all decide if we are going to be complicit in genocide or if we will be on the right side of history.”
Now is the time to show your support for equal rights. Please join us.
Roadmap to APARTHEID
Free Film Screening
Thursday, April 4, 6:00 pm
Anderson-Foothill Library
1135 S 2100 E, Salt Lake City
1135 S 2100 E, Salt Lake City
Listen to Interview with Filmmakers
Recorded March 2024
“With a comparison between apartheid South Africa and the Israel/Palestine conflict, this documentary traces the future of one conflict from the past of another. Weaving the history of apartheid into the complex issues facing Israelis and Palestinians, it highlights the frighteningly similar laws and tools used by Israel and apartheid-era South Africa. It’s a dark picture of the present but offers hope based on the peace that South Africa eventually found.”
Thursday, March 14, 2024, 6:00 -7:30 pm
Debunking Hasbara
Salt Lake City Public Library, Meeting Rm A
Sat, March 2, 2024, 1:00 pm
March for PALESTINE!
March 1, 6:00 pm
Vigil for Aaron Bushnell
Veteran Affairs Medical Center
Intersection of Foothill and Mario Capecchi Drives
Sat, Feb 24, 2024, 12:00-3:00 pm
Thurs, Feb 22, 2024, 6:00 pm
Palestine is Still the Issue
John Pilger’s Award Winning Documentary
Free Film Screening
Attend, engage, and learn more about the past 57 years of brutal military occupation of Palestine.
Anderson-Foothill Branch Library, 1135 S 2100 E, Salt Lake City, UT
Thurs, Feb 22, 2024, 6:00-7:30 pm
Palestinian Solidarity
Forum of Utah
The Forgotten Hostages: Detainees in Israeli “Prisons” Part II
Salt Lake City Public Library, 210 E 400 S, Meeting Room A
Caroling for a Ceasefire
Tuesday, Dec 12, 2023, 6:00 pm
Corner of Main and S Temple
by City Creek Mall
Salt Lake City, Utah
Rally for Palestine and for Tlaib
Bring friends, flags and signs!
Sat, Nov 11, 2:00 pm
Washington Square, 451 S. State St,
Salt Lake City
We must not tire!
Film Screening: Thursday, Nov 2, 2023, 6:00 pm
Screening details:
Location: Anderson-Foothill Branch Library, 1135 South 2100 East, Salt Lake City
Parental Discretion advised. | Q&A to follow.
Original UJPHL Screening:
Shortly after this film was released, UJPHL was joined by film makers, Abby Martin and Mike Prysner, for a screening at the University of Utah in September 2019. This film was an eye opener for all those involved in its making, and then for anyone that saw it. Four years later, the situation has never been more dire.
About the film:
Massive protests in cities across Gaza—the world’s largest open-air prison—were called under the banner of “The Great March of Return” in 2018 with the demand that Palestinian refugees be allowed to return to their lands seized in the ethnic cleansing that made way for the creation of the Israeli state.
Tens of thousands of Palestinian protesters were met with the brutality of the Israeli occupation forces. ‘Gaza Fights for Freedom’ is a glimpse into the on-going heroic struggle of the Palestinian people to survive a brutal occupation and genocide, and to return to their homeland.
This riveting collaboration between The Empire Files and a heroic team of Palestinian videographers in Gaza features exclusive coverage of the ‘Great March of Return’ protests, and extensive evidence—with frontline footage and victim testimony—of Israeli war crimes.
Close to 1,000 Stand for Palestine in Utah on Oct, 21, 2023!
Save Gaza!
Stand for Palestine Rally
Saturday, Oct 21, 2023, 2:00 pm
Utah State Capitol | Bring Friends
August 26, 2023
Salt Lake City Swims with Gaza
The Gaza organizers are from Tantish Swimming Academy, which offers swimming lessons to help Gaza kids find joy and purpose while living under very difficult circumstances. They anticipate about 1,000 children from Gaza will participate on 8/26.
You can have your own swim/splash party. Follow live on Facebook and YouTube!
The UJPHL Swim with Gaza Pool Event will be from 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm in Salt Lake City. If you would like to join this free event, please email c4peace.slc@gmail.com with the number of adults and children that would like to attend. You will get a paperless invitation with the address of the pool location. Space is limited so RSVP’d guests only.
June 13, 2023, Boycott Screening
- Where: Broadway Centre Cinemas, 111 E 300 S, Salt Lake City, UT
- When: Tuesday, June 13 @ 7:00 pm
- Tickets: $12 from Salt Lake Film Society (You must go to June 13 to see tickets.)
- Q&A will follow with Utah State Representative, Brian King.
On-the-Media podcast hosts discuss US laws preventing boycotts of Israel with Julia Bacha, Director of Boycott.
About Boycott
Over the past six years, unbeknownst to most Americans, 35 states passed laws intending to silence boycotts and other nonviolent measures aimed at pressuring Israel on its human rights record. These dangerous bills remove the legal protection that has been awarded to boycotts for generations, granting governments the power to condition jobs on political viewpoints.
As this wave of anti-boycott legislation has swept through the country, so has a counter-wave in defense of freedom of speech. Everyday Americans are challenging these laws for their constitutionality in a nation-wide battle likely to go all the way to the Supreme Court.
With full access to the plaintiffs and in revelatory moments with elected officials, Boycott chronicles one of the most consequential First Amendment battles of the past few decades and investigates the question – how did we get here?
About Brian King, Utah State Representative
Brian S. King serves in the Utah state House of Representatives. He was raised in Salt Lake City, graduated from the University of Utah College of Law in 1985 and has practiced law in Salt Lake City since then.
In 2008, Brian was elected to the Utah State House of Representatives as the Democratic representative for District 23 in Salt Lake City and parts of Summit County. He is a member of the House Judiciary and Business and Labor Standing committees. He also serves on the Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environmental Quality Appropriations Subcommittee. He served as the Leader of the House Minority Caucus from 2015-2022. He is a member of the LDS Democrats caucus in the Utah Democratic Party. He served for years on the Board of Directors for the Rape Recovery Center and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the ACLU of Utah and Utah’s Hogle Zoo.
Representative Brian King voted against anti-boycott legislation in Utah.
June 3-4, 2023 Utah Pride Festival UJPHL Celebrates Palestinian Pride
Stop by and visit!
Our booth will be in the southwest corner of Washington Square Saturday June 3 and Sunday June 4.
FREE Film Screening
Followed by Q&A
Saturday, April 15, 7:00 pm
First Unitarian Church, 569 South 1300 East, Salt Lake City, Utah
Sponsored by:
Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East, and Utahns for a Just Peace in the Holy Land
“The glorious strains of gospel music wash over the West Bank in Field’s potent film. As the Palestinian National Theater and an African-American choir mount a touring play about Martin Luther King Jr., written by Stanford Professor and King scholar Clayborne Carson, an impassioned cultural exchange ensues, new friendships are forged and attitudes are altered.” –Clarity Films
“It is the first film to explore parallels between the civil rights struggles in the U.S. and the liberation struggles in the occupied Territories.” –Stephen Zunes, Univ of San Francisco
Occupation of the American Mind
“It doesn’t matter if justice is on your side, you have to depict your position as just.” –Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel
December 7, 2022
Anderson-Foothill Branch Library
1135 South 2100 East, Salt Lake City, Utah
Screening at 6:00 pm, Discussion and Q&A to follow
(Viewer discretion is advised.)
August 7, 2022
End the Israeli Occupation: Two Versions of Peace
Presentations by panel members, Matthew Weinstein, president of J Street for Utah, Nora Abu-Dan, a Palestinian American and co-founder of the Emerald Project, and Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb of Jewish Voices for Peace. Q&A followed.
Special thanks to Barbara Taylor and the First Unitarian Church for making this event part of the Summer Forum Series.
November 16, 2021
Settler Violence in Palestine: WHY?
A videoconference with Amira Hass, journalist at the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz.
Utahns for a Just Peace in the Holy Land 
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