Chicago, IL I Palestine in America
Eyewitness Palestine delegate Fer E-J wrote an article on her delegation to Palestine and it is featured in this edition of Palestine in America!
‘Ahlan Fi Baladik’ is an honest reflection on coming home and going back to the belly of the beast.
Read MoreSeatlle, WA I I AM AN EDUCATOR
Eyewitness Palestine delegate Jesse Hagopian is one of the editors of "Teaching for Black Lives", a book that grammy award-winning artist Macklemore and NFL Pro Bowler Michael Bennett have teamed up to purchase and distribute copies of to every middle and high school Social Studies and Language Arts teacher in the Seattle Public School system.
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 Occupation Free DC
Eyewitness Palestine delegates Will Y. and Benjamin D. are a part of the growing “Occupation Free DC” Campaign.
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 MoreLexington, KY I ICNC
Eyewitness Palestine delegate Lindsay L. is one of six fellows for the 2018 cohort of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict.
Read MoreWashington, DC I Supreme Court
Eyewitness Palestine Justice Delegation member Mysonne Linen stood up with many other protestors today in Washington DC to demand a cancelling of the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to position of Supreme Court Justice.
Twin Cities, MN I Prophetic Action
Eyewitness Palestine delegate delegates Lara Kiswani and Sandra Tamari and many others will be part of the Friends of Sabeel North America FOSNA PropheticAction in the Twin Cities, ahead of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Conference.
Register here: https://www.fosna.org/event/prophetic-action-christians-convening-palestine
Read MoreSanta Clara, CA I Muslim Community Association
Eyewitness Palestine delegate Ossama K. is part of the team organizing this interactive panel and community discussion around early Muslim migrations to the Americas, the legacy of African scholarship in the Americas, the legacy of Islam in the Civil Rights movement, and the state sanctioned conditions that exist against our community that hinder our re-imagination beyond the colonial projects vision for political, social, and economic success.
Read MoreGaza City I Daily Interviews
Eyewitness Palestine delegate Micah D. is interviewing people in Gaza City. Here is a short piece of an interview with Farah Abu Obeda, aged 11.
Read MoreSan Francisco I American Conservatory Theater SF Costume Shop
Eyewitness Palestine is co-hosting a talkback after ACT's My Name is Rachel Corrie, this Satruday August 18th in SF. Ashley Malloy revives her award winning national tour of the one person show, My Name is Rachel Corrie, edited from Rachel's emails and journal entries by the late Alan Rickman and editor in chief of The Guardian, Katherine Viner.
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 MoreLos Angeles, CA I CosmoVisiones Ancestros
Eyewitness Palestine delegate Paula Kahn is the co-founder of the recently launched CosmoVisiones Ancestrales who is hosting a caravan to bring her fellow co-founders to educate Californians on the local issues they face as members of indigenous communities in Latin America and how ending the war on drugs is integral to indigenous rights and environmental protection.
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 MoreWashington, 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.
St. Louis, MO I Presbyterian Church USA General Assembly
Eyewitness Palestine delegates were at the forefront of organizing to keep the Presbyterian Church USA focused on it's important work putting economic pressure on Israel to abide by human rights standards. Several overtures regarding Palestine were passed in committee at the 223rd General Assembly of the PCUSA and were approved “by consent” at the opening session.
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