Occupation is Crime of Aggression: Jehad Abusalim on Democracy Now
AFSC's Jehad Abusalim and Raji Sourani from the Palestinian Center for Human Rights talk with Amy Goodman about Israel's latest attacks on Gaza on Democracy Now! on May 6, 2019
AFSC's Jehad Abusalim and Raji Sourani from the Palestinian Center for Human Rights talk with Amy Goodman about Israel's latest attacks on Gaza on Democracy Now! on May 6, 2019
AFSC's #GazaMarchTour, featuring Palestinian writer and peace activist Ahmed Abu Artema, came to an end in the last week of March. Yet Ahmed's tour of more than ten cities in the United States, left significant footprints in all the places he visited.
March 30 marks the first anniversary of the start of the Great March of Return. Please join us in action on March 30 by organizing an event in your community.
Ahmed Abu Artema is the Palestinian writer, refugee, nonviolent advocate, and visionary who inspired the Great March of Return. In March, he will share his experiences with people in cities across the U.S. as part of the AFSC speaking tour “Hashtags to headlines: How the Gaza Great March of Return challenged the world.”
Today's read: Scores of amputations in Gaza as Israeli troops aim at legs, AlJazeera (12/10/2018).
Today's read: We Shouldn’t Lie to Ourselves: Nonviolent Resistance Is Alive and Powerful in Gaza, by Muhammad Shehada, The Nation (10/06/2018).
A US Congressional briefing focusing on mental health in Gaza will be held at noon on Thursday, November 29 at the Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2203 in Washington, DC.
As part of the My Life Under Blockade essay contest, AFSC’s Gaza and Chicago teams organized an essay writing workshop on writing personal narrative essays.
This text is an adapted translation of a report by Palestinian journalist Yehya al-Yacoubi, published in Felesteen newspaper on October 25th, 2018.