New York, NY I Center for Constitutional Rights
Eyewitness Palestine delegates of the 2018 Justice Delegation published their statement as human rights defenders, calling "on our communities, our allies, our representatives, and the international community to hold Israel accountable for its violent response to Palestinians’ call and march for freedom.”
Read MoreWashington, DC I Capitol Hill
Eyewitness Palestine delegates Kareem El-Hosseiny and Eyewitness Palestine Program Director, Emily Siegel were on Capitol Hill today meeting with DC rep, Eleanor Holmes Norton . . . Also spotted on the hill are delegates Seth Morrison and Karen Akerman as part of Jewish Voice for Peace’s Lobby Day.
Read MoreMidland, MI I Midland Daily News
Eyewitness Palestine delegate Emma Johnson wrote an op-ed in the Midland Daily News, calling out her Republican Rep and my Democratic Senator who are both co-sponsoring the Israel Anti-Boycott Act.
Read MoreSt Louis, MO I St Louis Post-Dispatch
Eyewitness Palestine delegate Lea Koesterer was published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch today, writing about the US condoning the actions of the Israeli military against Palestinian protestors on the #GreatMarchofReturn.
Read MoreGaza, Palestine & Sacramento, CA I Black Agenda Report
Eyewitness Palestine delegate Ajamu Baraka writes a condemnation of the murder of Palestinians by Israeli Forces during The Great March of Return and a condemnation of the violence of Sacramento Police against Stephon Clark, highlighting the broader March for Our Lives.
Read MoreBnei Brak I Rebecca Pierce Films
Rebecca writes “it’s one of two offices in the whole country where African asylum seekers are allowed to renew their visas and submit Refugee Status Determination forms. Where refugees stand for up to four days in a row, in the hot sun or pouring rain, to get the documents that are the only thing temporarily protecting them from prison and ‘illegality.’
Read MoreDetroit, MI I Palestinians Podcast
Eyewitness Palestine delegation leader Ahmad Abuznaid is featured on the most recent episode of Palestinians Podcast, reflecting on growing up between the US and Palestine and reminding us of the integral struggle for justice as communities resisting oppression and necessary unity in our liberation movements.
Read MoreOlympia, Washington I Electronic Intifada
Interfaith Peace-Builders delegation leader Nora Barrows-Friedman writes a crucial piece on the welcome legal victor for supporters of the Olympia Food Co-Op!
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 MoreMiddletown, CT I The Amal Foundation
Eyewitness Palestine delegate Fer E-J is given honorable mention in the recent Wesleyan Refugee Project's fundraiser to the Amal Foundation.
Read MoreCambridge, Massachusetts I Cambridge Day
Eyewitness Palestine delegates William Ruhm and Elizabeth Rucker speak up at a Massachusetts Against Hewlett-Packard organizing event in Cambridge.
“Today, we have a chance to resist a modern Polaroid…
Read MoreWorldwide I Its What We Do , A Play
Eyewitness Palestine delegate Pamela Nice’s play, “It’s What We Do” has launched its video production online and on DVD.
After twice performing in the Capital Fringe Festival and winning Best Drama in the Fringe Audience Awards in both 2015 and 2017, they are excited to take the play to audiences worldwide!
Read MoreCape Cod, MA I Cape Cod Times
Eyewitness Palestine delegate Melissa Nussbaum wrote a letter to the editor, published in the Cape Code Times, signed by 15 other Cape Cod residents.
Read MoreHouston, TX I Houston Chronicle
Eyewitness Palestine delegate Bridget Jensen’s letter to the editor has been published in the Houston Chronicle, in response to the article “Trump puts Mideast on edge:”
She writes,
“since dropping the pretense of the location of Israel’s capital being other than Jerusalem was one factor in Trump’s recent decision, the discussion of dropping pretenses should be widened, starting with the pretense that there is any peace process.
Read MoreOcala, FL I TEDxOcala
Eyewitness Palestine delegation leader and partner, Anna Baltzer explains that staying neutral in controversial situations is NOT the moral high ground and that neutrality is a dangerous trap – and an illusion. Taking a side, Baltzer explains, not impartiality, is what really helps resolve conflicts.
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 America's Islamic Heritage Museum
Eyewitness Palestine delegates, Brittany Oliver and E&A Coordinator Nadya Tannous spoke on a larger panel, including speakers like Sahar Francis of Addameer, titled “Resisting State Violence: Lessons on Liberation and Abolition”.
Read MoreWashington, DC I Hands on Drums
Eyewitness Palestine delegate Jaquial Durham will be speaking this Friday at the event below, hosted by Georgetown Black Student Alliance and Georgetown Students for Justice in Palestine for a teach-in on divesting from state violence.
“In the spirit of internationalism, we as students, activists, academics, and community members will explore together the manifestations of state violence in DC, Palestine, and the UK. Look forward to a night of hearing from community organizers directly involved in resisting state violence, visualizing possibilities for accountable solidarity, and expanding divestment work in DC.”
Check out the line up at the link below and come out if you’re in the DC-Metro Area!
Read MoreYaffa, Palestine I Mondoweiss
Eyewitness Palestine delegate Amirah AbuLughod just returned from the Oliver Harvest delegation. Her reflection of visiting Yaffa, the city her family once called home, for the first time is now published in Mondoweiss.
She writes “I walked these streets – we walked these streets – with a man whose family stayed after the Nakba in 1948. His family was one of only 4,000 who stayed out of an original population of 120,000.”
Read MoreOakland, CA I East Side Arts Alliance
Bay Area Community: come out this Thursday to East Side Arts Alliance in Oakland, CA for the Panel on Political Prisoners and Incarceration, featuring Sahar Francis from Addameer Prisoner Support & Human Rights Association, bottom-lined by Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)- حركة الشباب الفلسطيني
The panel will include speakers from Critical Resistance, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Anakbayan East Bay, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, moderated by Freedom Archives
Event endorsed by member groups of the Palestine Action Network, The Center for Political Education, and IFPB!
See You There!
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