Bnei Brak I Rebecca Pierce Films
Rebecca writes “it’s one of two offices in the whole country where African asylum seekers are allowed to renew their visas and submit Refugee Status Determination forms. Where refugees stand for up to four days in a row, in the hot sun or pouring rain, to get the documents that are the only thing temporarily protecting them from prison and ‘illegality.’
Read MoreDetroit, MI I Palestinians Podcast
Eyewitness Palestine delegation leader Ahmad Abuznaid is featured on the most recent episode of Palestinians Podcast, reflecting on growing up between the US and Palestine and reminding us of the integral struggle for justice as communities resisting oppression and necessary unity in our liberation movements.
Read MoreOlympia, 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!
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 MoreWorldwide I Its What We Do , A Play
Eyewitness Palestine delegate Pamela Nice’s play, “It’s What We Do” has launched its video production online and on DVD.
After twice performing in the Capital Fringe Festival and winning Best Drama in the Fringe Audience Awards in both 2015 and 2017, they are excited to take the play to audiences worldwide!
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?”
Read MoreWashington DC I America's Islamic Heritage Museum
Eyewitness Palestine delegates, Brittany Oliver and E&A Coordinator Nadya Tannous spoke on a larger panel, including speakers like Sahar Francis of Addameer, titled “Resisting State Violence: Lessons on Liberation and Abolition”.
Read MoreWashington, DC I Hands on Drums
Eyewitness Palestine delegate Jaquial Durham will be speaking this Friday at the event below, hosted by Georgetown Black Student Alliance and Georgetown Students for Justice in Palestine for a teach-in on divesting from state violence.
“In the spirit of internationalism, we as students, activists, academics, and community members will explore together the manifestations of state violence in DC, Palestine, and the UK. Look forward to a night of hearing from community organizers directly involved in resisting state violence, visualizing possibilities for accountable solidarity, and expanding divestment work in DC.”
Check out the line up at the link below and come out if you’re in the DC-Metro Area!
Read MoreYaffa, 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.”
Read MoreOakland, CA I East Side Arts Alliance
Bay Area Community: come out this Thursday to East Side Arts Alliance in Oakland, CA for the Panel on Political Prisoners and Incarceration, featuring Sahar Francis from Addameer Prisoner Support & Human Rights Association, bottom-lined by Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)- حركة الشباب الفلسطيني
The panel will include speakers from Critical Resistance, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Anakbayan East Bay, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, moderated by Freedom Archives
Event endorsed by member groups of the Palestine Action Network, The Center for Political Education, and IFPB!
See You There!
Read MoreWashington, DC I Capitol Hill
Eyewitness Palestine board members, delegation leaders & delegates Mark Harrison, Jennifer Bing, Bradley Parker, Josh Ruebner and other partners met with Congresswoman Betty McCollum this morning to endorse her new legislation, H.R. 4391, which promotes the human rights of Palestinian children.
Congresswoman McCollum writes, “Peace can only be achieved by respecting human rights, especially the rights of children. Congress must not turn a blind eye the unjust and ongoing mistreatment of Palestinian children living under Israeli occupation.”
Read MoreWashington, 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.’
Read MoreDetroit, Michigan I The Women's Convention
Eyewitness Palestine delegates Ariel Gold and Paula Kahn and many others from CODEPINK: Women for Peace celebrated 15 years of challenging US wars at The Women’s Convention in Detroit.
They also came to strategize for the road ahead: in a follow-up to the Women’s March on Washington, DC, The Women’s Convention gathered for a weekend of workshops, strategy sessions and inspiration for going into the 2018 midterm elections.
Read MoreCanada I Penguin Random House
Big congratulations to Eyewitness Palestine delegate Gabe Schivone who has just released his new book “Making the New "Illegal”: How Decades of US Involvement in Central America Triggered the Modern Wave of Immigration" with a foreword by Noam Chomsky.
You pre-order the book online from Penguin Random House via this link.
We can’t wait to read it!
