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Interview with Combatants for Peace Iris Gur and Mai Shahin (part II)

Combatants for Peace Iris Gur (Israeli) and Mai Shahin (Palestinian) will be attending the Re-Imagine Peace event in Florence; both have been invited to the screening of the film *There is Another Way*. Daniela Bezzi of Pressenza interviewed them (here…

Over 120 Israeli teenagers announce their refusal to enlist in the army

On the last day of the school year in Israel, June 19th, a letter from teens announcing their refusal to enlist in the Israeli army was distributed in thousands of copies across several schools around the country. The letter, titled…

Uplifting Voices from Gaza, Iran, Lebanon, & West Bank

On Wednesday, April 29 at 12:00pm ET, please join us for an international webinar featuring the voices of women from Gaza, Iran, Lebanon, and the West Bank, who will speak about the widening war in the SWANA/Middle East region launched…

Standing Together in a Time of War: Voices of Resistance in Tel Aviv

In the heart of Tel Aviv, hundreds of Jews and Palestinians gathered in Habima Square to deliver a message rarely heard in times of escalating conflict: the cycle of war must end. Organized by Standing Together and led by its…

West Bank: The registration of dispossession

When a power that occupies a territory decides to register the land of the occupied as its own, this is no longer administration: it is appropriation. Israel’s new law on land in the West Bank confirms that the so-called “two-state…

3 Witness Palestine Christians

A conversation with three men who recently traveled to Palestine to witness the state of Palestinian Christian communities living in Israel-occupied West Bank. What they experienced was horrific and hopeful. Horrendous in the brutality of the young Israeli settler gangs…

Israel, protesters from Mesarvot Network chant in solidarity with refusers Yuval Peleg and A’

Over 50 activists from the Mesarvot Network and Yesh Gvul are demonstrating outside Military Prison No. 10 in central Israel, where Yuval Peleg has been imprisoned for 130 days and A’ is serving a first 30-day sentence, both for refusing…

Housing Ethnic Cleansing: How Airbnb Legitimizes Occupation

It seems like just yesterday, I was on my school’s campus having meetings with administrators, voicing demands to cut ties with Israel. Whether that was cancelling their study abroad trip to Israel or divesting from zionist institutions, the movement to…

EU–Israel: European Demonstration Calling for the Suspension of the Association Agreement

On Tuesday, 15 July at 12:30 p.m., demonstrators from across Europe gathered in front of the European External Action Service (EEAS) at 234 Petite Rue de la Loi, demanding the immediate suspension of the EU–Israel Association Agreement. On the eve…

May 15, Nakba Day: a beautiful message and invitation to participate from the Combatants for Peace

Yesterday was International Mother’s Day, and while many of us were enjoying homemade cards filled with love, I was thinking of the families I met just days ago in the Northern Jordan Valley: Palestinian mothers and children facing daily violence,…

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