Washington, DC I Adalah Justice Project
Eyewitness Palestine delegation leader Noura E. teamed up with Adalah Justice Project Acting director and delegate Sandra T. at Capitol Hill to discuss Palestinian rights and freedoms and push the legislation of "No way to treat a child", to end the arrests of Palestinian children.
Read MoreLondon, UK I MEMO
Eyewitness Palestine delegation leader Noura Erakat is featured at MEMO’s Palestine Book Awards this year and is shortlisted for her book Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine
Read MoreWashington, DC I Middle East Institute
Eyewitness Palestine delegation leader Noura E. was part of a book talk at the Middle East Institute last week, showcasing Khaled Elgindy’s book “ Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump”.
Washington DC I Washington Post
Eyewitness Palestine delegation leader Noura Erakat has an insightful article in the Washington Post this month about a new generation of Palestinian organizers.
Read MoreWashington DC I Democracy Now
Eyewitness Palestine delegation leader Noura Erakat is featured on Democracy Now! responding to #Trump's announcement that the U.S. will recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied #GolanHeights, in defiance of international law and decades of U.S. policy. Trump announced the move via Twitter Thursday, writing, “After 52 years it is time for the United States to fully recognize Israel’s Sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which is of critical strategic and security importance to the State of Israel and Regional Stability!”
Read MoreSan Diego/Tijuana Border I American Friends Service Committee
Eyewitness Palestine delegates Shakeel S., Emily B., Ossama K., Zahra B., Rae A., Ariel V., Lynn G. and others took part in the Love Knows No Borders mass mobilization on Monday, along the Tijuana/San Diego Border.
Read MoreAnn Arbor, MI I Electronic Intifada
Delegation leader Nora B-F interviews people around the University of Michigan about the two professors there who have declined to write recommendation letters for two separate students seeking to join study abroad programs in Israel.
Read MoreEl Cajon, CA I CISPES and PYM
Eyewitness Palestine delegates América M. and Leslie Q will be part of a larger community report-back on their recent delegation to Palestine, alongside the recently returning delegation from El Salvador.
Read MoreWashington DC I Washington Post
Eyewitness Palestine delegation leader Noura Erakat has a new piece that comments on the US defunding of UNRWA and the recent closure of the PLO Mission in Washington DC.
Read MoreWashington, DC I JVP DC Metro
Eyewitness Palestine delegation leader Noura E. and Justice Delegation Member Justin H. will be speaking at the "From DC to Palestine: State violence, the law & how we resist" in Washington DC.
Read MoreNew York, NY I Center for Constitutional Rights
Eyewitness Palestine delegates from the 2018 Justice Delegation, as well as delegation leaders Huwaida Arraf and Jamil Dakwar, signed onto this letter of over 100 lawyers and advocates to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressing concern over Israel's policy of detaining and denying entry to human rights advocates.
Read MoreWashington, DC I MSNBC
Eyewitness Palestine delegation leader Noura Erakat says that the US is rewarding Israel by using delusional rhetoric of an ‘honest’ peace process while facilitating apartheid.
Read MoreAustin, TX I General Convention of the Episcopal Church
Eyewitness Palestine delegation leader Anna Baltzer reports from the General Convention of the Episcopal Church: The Episcopal Peace Fellowship EPF Palestine Israel Network (EPF PIN) put in amazing work over many years to make the Episcopal Church the 10th Christian denomination in the US to take economic action for justice in Palestine. Thanks in large part to their mobilization, the church also passed ground-breaking resolutions:
Asserting the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination
Condemning Israel’s violence against protesters in Gaza
Calling on the US government to reinstate funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)
Supporting the rights of Palestinian children
Demanding equal access to Jerusalem and opposing Trump’s move of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
Read MoreAustin, TX I General Convention of the Episcopal Church
Eyewitness Palestine delegation leader Anna Baltzer reports from the General Convention of the Episcopal Church. With more than 3 million members has voted to divest from companies involved in Israel’s violations of Palestinian human rights.
Read MorePhiladelphia, PA I Uncle Bobbie's Coffee & Books Palestine Teach-In
Eyewitness Palestine delegation leaders Ahmad Abuznaid and Noura Erakat spoke on panels at Uncle Bobbie's Coffee & Books in Philadelphia. The coffee shop is hosting a teach-in on Palestine and the pop-up exhibit “Movements of Oppression, Solidarity and Hope” curated by delegate Tracey Rogers.
Read MoreCambridge, Massachusetts I Cambridge Day
Interfaith Peace-Builders delegation leader Noura Erakat is featured on Jadaliyya, discussing the Myths of the Two State Solution.
Read MoreWashington DC I Middle East Eye
Eyewitness Palestine delegation leader Noura Erakat in her new article in Middle East Eye writes,
“Thank you President Trump, you have finally ended US double-speak on Middle East ‘peace’…Far from signalling a doomsday scenario, Trump has removed the emperor’s clothes to reveal the farce of the peace process. Now what next for the Palestinians?”
Read MoreWashington, DC I John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Eyewitness Palestine delegation leader Noura Erakat, founding board member of the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival, kicked off the festival the first week of October at the The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC.
Read MoreSan Francisco, California I Palestine in America
Delegation leader Nora Barrows-Friedman writes an article titled “Intersectionality and the mainstreaming of Palestine” in Palestine in America.
She writes:
“Princess Nokia did it. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis did it. Queer filmmakers did it. A group of NFL players did it. Barcelona city council members did it. Even Sacramento, California transit officials did it.
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