Ann 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 MoreSan Francisco, CA I The Forward
Eyewitness Palestine delegate Rebecca Pierce writes a poignant piece on the recent information connecting the blacklisting site Canary Mission to the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation.
Read MoreChicago, 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 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 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.
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.
Read MoreNew 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/
Read MoreNew 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 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 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 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?”
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