A rare event took place in Tel Aviv. It gathered Israeli conscientious objectors and Ahmed Abu Artema, one of the leaders and key organizers of the Great March of Return, who spoke to the objectors virtually.
On September 7, 2018, Palestinian activists invited anti-Zionist Israeli activists to have tea and protest in solidarity with the Great March of Return. Since the Gaza siege fence and occupying military forces stood between them, they instead joined the demonstration from the eastern side with Palestinian flags and spoke with the Palestinian protestors by phone.
Two weeks before her twentieth birthday, Asmaa Tayeh wrote, “I have spent my life so far in a prison called Gaza, which is in Palestine. I call it a prison because if you committed a crime and were sentenced to prison for 20 years, you would be unable to do anything except eat, drink, sleep and maybe study–achieving nothing. And that’s all that’s possible here...” (This article was first published in garnet news)
Jennifer Bing wrote and read the following speech at a rally held in Chicago on June 5, 2018.
