Infographic above from UN-OCHA’s report on Covid-19 in the occupied Palestinian Territories. Available here. Alice Rothchild, MD, who is both a JWE board member and a member of the steering …
Join us in honoring Palestinian health care workers, June 1
Just World Educational is joining in the effort launched by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) to honor Palestinian health care workers on June 1, 2020.
Who matters? Pandemic in a time of structural violence
Focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic as it impacts Israel/Palestine provides us with a unique case study of the realities of health care and public health in a racialized and unequal society.
Triple Jeopardy: Refugees/Migrants/ Palestinian Prisoners
Recently reflecting on the plight of refugees fleeing war zones in the Middle East and migrants from sub-Saharan Africa and Central America I was struck by the analogy to ‘double jeopardy.’
A hierarchy of vulnerability
by Alice Rothchild This piece, by JWE Board Member Alice Rothchild, is crossposted from Mondoweiss. I was recently passing through customs where I popped my US passport face down on …
Cobban, Falk react to Trump’s “Deal”
On January 28, Pres. Trump rolled out his long-threatened “Deal of the Century” on the Palestine Question– in a White House event alongside Israeli POM Netanyahu and before a glittering …
In Jesus’s birthplace, Palestinian Christians mark Christmas behind a Wall
by Helena Cobban, JWE president In 2019, the Palestinian Christians of Bethlehem– many of them descendants of some of Jesus’s or his disciples’ first converts– spent their 58th Christmas under …
“S” is for State Responsibility
By Raed Jarrar (@raedjarrar) For years, many Palestine solidarity advocates have been hesitant to call for US sanctions on Israel because it has been considered too “unrealistic.” Instead, most have …
Omar Barghouti on BDS Success and How to Respond to Criticism of the Movement
By Eli Gerzon (@EliGerzon) In part one I wrote about participating in an Eyewitness Palestine tour this fall 2019. Twenty-two of us met with many amazing people, but when Omar …
BDS: History, Misconceptions and Successes – Omar Barghouti Speaks with Tour Group (Part I)
By Eli Gerzon For about twenty years Eyewitness Palestine has organized travel tours for people to see first-hand what is happening in Israel/Palestine. I attended the Climate Change and Olive …