Washington 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.
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Washington, 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.
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New 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.
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Washington, 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.
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Washington, DC I rawstory.com
Eyewitness Palestine delegates and DC community members went viral on Monday as they protested outside of White House senior advisor Stephen Miller’s apartment in Washington, D.C. Miller is one the prominent minds behind immigration policies that separated +2,000 children from their parents at the U.S. border.
New York, NY I In These Times
Eyewitness Palestine delegate Rahul Saksena writes about how Israeli airport officials confiscated his notebook, details what was written inside of it, and some of his reflections on Israel's mass-expelled Palestinians from their lands 70 years ago and on-going Nakba.
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New York, NY I El Diario NY
Eyewitness Palestine delegate Natasha Bannan, on the 70th anniversary of Nakba, writes about the US support of Israel financially, militarily and ideologically. Link: https://eldiariony.com/2018/05/15/masacres-en-nuestro-nombre/
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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.”
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Midland, 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.
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St 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.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts I Cambridge Day
Interfaith Peace-Builders delegation leader Noura Erakat is featured on Jadaliyya, discussing the Myths of the Two State Solution.
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Middletown, 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.
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Cambridge, 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…
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Cape 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.
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Houston, 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.
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Ocala, 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.
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Washington 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?”
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Yaffa, 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.”
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Washington, DC I Huffington Post
Eyewitness delegation leader Philip Farah writes that the Kansas Commission of Education barred a math teacher from a program for training other teachers because she refused to sign a pledge certifying that she is “not engaged in boycotting Israel.”
San Francisco, California I Electronic Intifada
Delegation leader Nora Barrows-Friedman writes about San Francisco State University’s faculty, Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, victory last week over the lawsuit, filed in June, prepared by The Lawfare Project, a group that describes itself as “the legal arm of the pro-Israel community.”
Nora writes, “The decision to dismiss the suit proves that these types of legal attempts by Israel advocacy groups ‘will fail,’ Palestine Legal’s Liz Jackson said. “They have no merit because the facts they allege are untrue and the legal theory they’re based on is an abuse of civil rights law….
"Abdulhadi said the dismissal of the lawsuit sends a strong message to those trying to silence students and faculty and praised activists and organizations that have fought back.
'For me personally, it renews my faith, my determination [to continue teaching],’ Abdulhadi said. 'These campaigns are designed to destroy careers. So this is a wake up call to the Zionists to say, you need to back off, and the people won’t allow you to do this.’
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