After enduring five massive Israel attacks between 2001 – the year I was born – and 2021, I decided to leave Gaza in pursuit of a better future. 22 November 2023// Electronic Itifada In my eagerness to escape, it did not occur to me that I could lose everything. It did not occur to me …
Jewish author Naomi Klein on how Israel is a nation both founded in the trauma of genocide, but also a dangerous replication of Europe’s past imperialist mindset, which solved problems through colonialism.
For five weeks, the ALLMEP community believed our friend Vivian Silver was living an unimaginable nightmare as a hostage in Gaza. Late on Monday night we learned from Vivian’s family that her nightmare both began and ended on October 7th, when she was murdered in the attacks that devastated the community she had done so much to build at Kibbutz Be’eri. It took this long to identify her remains.
The system must not return to propping up indefinite encampment without political solutions.’
“I’m very sorry to let you know that this is only the number we were able to confirm – the number is highly likely to be much higher as we have many many colleagues who are unaccounted for and they may still be stuck under the rubble”With over 100 colleagues killed in Gaza Juliette Touma …
With over 100 UNRWA personnel killed in Gaza, Juliette Touma tells CNN Read More »
How do you find common ground when words like “ceasefire” or “peace” have become loaded terms?
Grant makers are often reluctant to support the risky work of grass-roots groups struggling to build peace in the Middle East and elsewhere. But they need us now more than ever.
Western governments are failing in their responsibility to act in the face of credible accounts of war crimes being committed in the Israeli–Hamas conflict. Calls for a ‘humanitarian pause’ are a distraction and a derogation of humanitarian responsibilities. Only a ceasefire can stop the bloodshed.
ICCT Senior Project Manager Joana Cook sits down with Devorah Margolin, Blumenstein-Rosenbloom Fellow at the Washington Institute to discuss Hamas.
Being less terrible to each other during war is a universal good that must be emphatically defended.
The Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR) was founded in 2001 as a non-governmental, non-profit, politically independent organization in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The institute has as basic principles non-violence, conflict transformation, the promotion of human rights through information and awareness raising by solutions oriented, social, political and economic analysis