Challenging Narratives about Gaza and Violence
This article was first published in June 2018. It was edited and updated on May 17, 2021.
Articles & Essays
This Must End
A Letter from Gaza as Israel's bombs fall.
Congress Members Call on Israel to Provide Covid Vaccines to Palestinians
On March 15, 2021 Rep. Mark Pocan and Rep. Andre Carson led in the sending of a letter to Secretary of State Blinken requesting that the State Department take action to ensure that the Israeli government provide COVID-19 vaccines and facilitate vaccination programs for Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza.
The Dreams of Youth
The stories linked below provide glimpses into the lives of four young people currently living in Gaza.
Humanitarian aid is not enough to bring peace to Palestine
While the Biden administration has indicated it will restore critical humanitarian funding for Palestine, we need political action to bring lasting peace with justice.
غزة: إعادة تخيل حدود الممكن - دعوة لتقديم ملخصات
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) seeks abstracts for an anthology tentatively entitled – “Gaza: Reimagining the Boundaries of Possibility.” Writers from Palestine are invited to submit essays for this anthology.
Gaza: Reimagining the Boundaries of Possibility - Call for Submissions
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) seeks abstracts for an anthology tentatively entitled – “Gaza: Reimagining the Boundaries of Possibility.” Writers from Palestine are invited to submit essays for this anthology.
Israel has an obligation to ensure Palestinians have Covid-19 protection
On March 19, 2020 Mr. Michael Lynk, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, called on Israel to ensure proper steps are taken to protect the health and safety of Palestinians living in the occupied Palestinian territory and under Israeli control.
Representatives Pocan and Dingell lead in calling for an end to the Gaza blockade
On February 19, 2020 Rep. Pocan and Rep. Dingell sent a letter, signed by an additional 33 members of congress, to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asking that he reinstate US assistance to Palestine and support an end to the blockade of Gaza.
Travels through Gaza
Over the last twelve years I have traversed this path into Gaza at least once each year, often more frequently, and I have watched as the rubble that remained after Israel destroyed the Erez industrial zone has disappeared into the surrounding landscape, ground down by tanks during multiple invasions and grown over by weeds.