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Ilaria Olimpico

Monday for Gaza – Their hunger is our hunger

The continuously updated map (Photo by Hunger for Gaza) On September 8, 2025, the international campaign #Mondays4Gaza was launched, taking place every Monday, for the entire day (00:00 – 23:59), everywhere in the world. Palestinians, Israelis, and internationals have begun…

Where can we find hope in the land between the river and the sea? Part Two

Yuli Novak, executive director of B’Tselem, the Israeli non-governmental organization recently cited by many newspapers for the publication of the report “Our Genocide,” wrote: “Genocide does not happen without mass participation, a population that supports it, allows it, or looks…

Where to find hope in the land between the river and the sea? Part One

The future never manifests itself at the center first. The future manifests itself at the margins first. Otto Scharmer. Do the strike and the demonstration on August 17 in Israel give a sign of hope for transformation in the consciousness…

Re-Imagine Peace, in conversation with Noa

I met Achinoam Nini, internationally known as the singer Noa, in Florence on May 31, 2025. She is a peace activist, and she says: “Our role as artists is to create an alternative reality”. What I appreciate is that her…

It is the time of PEACE with COMPASSION

This is Ursula von der Leyen’s speech, March 11, 2025, Strasbourg https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_25_739 I played with changing some key words… still not satisfied, do you want to try it? Which words would you use? What is the Europe you dream about?…

A conversation with the two female co-directors of Combatants for Peace

Palestine-Israel: from one story to more than one story, from us vs them to togetherness, from cycle of violence to nonviolence, towards a Collective Liberation   There is no way to peace Peace is the way   I interviewed Rana…