Los 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.
Read MorePortland, OR; San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles, CA; etc I Demonstrations Against Family Separation and the Criminalization of Immigrants
Eyewitness Palestine delegates joined hundreds of thousands of people around the United States to demand an end to the Trump Administration's family separation policy and call for an end to the racist policies of the Immigration and Custom Enforcements agency.
Portland, ME I Maine Voices for Palestine
Eyewitness Palestine delegates Sally Bowden-Schaible and Bob Schaible organized a demonstration in Portland Maine. ‘Gaza Bleeds’ raised awareness about the killing of unarmed Palestinian demonstrators by Israeli occupation forces.
College Park, MD I National Conference for College Women Student Leaders
Eyewitness Palestine delegate Brittany Oliver serves as a steering committee member of the 2018 National Conference for College Women Student Leaders.
Read MoreNew York, NY I Center for Constitutional Rights
Eyewitness Palestine delegates of the 2018 Justice Delegation are reporting back this Friday in New York City. Sign up for the event HERE: https://www.facebook.com/events/2056092698007278/
Read MoreSan Francisco, CA I AROC
Eyewitness Palestine delegates Lara Kiswani and Sharif Zakout are planning the Arab Resource and Organizing Center Community Potluck Iftar in San Francisco, Friday June 8th.
Read MoreNew 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 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.
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