The Palestine 2.0 Delegation explores current realities for Palestinians, including the repression of strategic organizing, the separation and segregation of the Palestinian population, and creative ways communities are continuing to resist.
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This delegation is Eyewitness Palestine's 67th, successfully exposing more than 1,300 people to the daily realities facing Palestinians in their quest for justice.
We believe in the power of eyewitness experience and transformation. Given the opportunity to speak directly with Palestinians and Israelis, delegates return to the United States better informed, more energized, and with a deeper understanding of the possibilities for true justice in the Middle East.
Everywhere daily life is constrained by endless barriers: physical, bureaucratic, economic. It is a comprehensive plan, a form of incipient state violence, that denigrates the Palestinian nationality, and is designed to suck the life force out of the people. Of course, it won’t; fascists never win in the long run. But it takes its toll.
Read MoreOur delegation joined Bedouin residents of Al-Fura’a village and other human rights organizations at the Israeli Supreme Court for the latest stage in the battle against a planned phosphate mine in the Naqab (Negev) in southern Israel that will displace their entire village to an urban ghetto - an urbanization plan. This is part of the larger racist settler colonial plan of Israel to take as much land as possible …
Read MoreWATCH: Our delegation recently visited the High Court of Israel where Organizers from Adalah - The Legal Center For Arab Minority Rights In Israel briefed us outside the court on either end of a hearing for an injunction on Israel's planned demolition of Al-Fura’a village. Here are the videos from the High Court. Others appear on Eyewitness Palestine’s youtube channel.
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