Read delegate Alice R.’s article in Mondoweiss about the Palestine Writes festival!
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Chicago, IL I Colorlines
Eyewitness Palestine delegate Kristian D-B wrote a piece featured in Colorlines about the House resolution, passed on July 23, which overwhelmingly condemns the BDS movement for Palestinian rights.
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Jacksonville, Florida I Electronic Intifada
Eyewitness Palestine delegation leader Nora B.F. writes a new article reporting on the recently bi-partisan approved bill in Florida
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Bay Area, CA I Electronic Intifada
Eyewitness Palestine delegation leader Nora B. writes about Airbnb's new decision to keep participating and colluding with Israeli apartheid.
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San Francisco, CA I The Forward
Eyewitness Palestine delegate Rebecca Pierce has a new piece in The Forward on the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute’s decision to rescind Angela Davis’s award.
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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.
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San 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.
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Washington, DC I Occupation Free DC
Eyewitness Palestine delegates Will Y. and Benjamin D. are a part of the growing “Occupation Free DC” Campaign.
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Austin, 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
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Austin, 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.
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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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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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Olympia, 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!
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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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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 Palestine in America
Delegation leader Nora Barrows-Friedman writes an article titled “Intersectionality and the mainstreaming of Palestine” in Palestine in America.
She writes:
“Princess Nokia did it. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis did it. Queer filmmakers did it. A group of NFL players did it. Barcelona city council members did it. Even Sacramento, California transit officials did it.
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San Francisco, CA I Berkeleyside
Eyewitness Palestine delegate Mohamed Shehk, with two other authors, has published a piece in Berkeleyside in lieu of tonight’s Berkeley City Council meeting and vote on withdrawal from Urban Shield.
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