– Edward Said
The late Palestinian scholar, Edward Said, remarked that Palestinians had been denied permission to narrate their history and speak of the day-to-day experiences of life in the margins. Here, we reclaim that permission to narrate our own stories.
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Photo and credits: Palestinians mourn the martyrs of the “Lions’ Den” in the city of Nablus, October 25, 2022 (Jaafar Shtayyeh/AFP) “The old will die, and the young will forget” is a premise Israeli leaders had hoped for in their colonization of Palestine and the continuation of discrimination against the Palestinian people. However, Palestinian resistance … Read more
The Jerusalem Fund held the Palestine Center Annual Conference titled ‘75 Years of Partition: Ethnic Cleansing and Dispossession’ on November 11, 2022. This year’s conference, and the month of November, mark both 105 years since the Balfour Declaration and 75 years since the UN Partition of Palestine, thus our conference title, “75 years of Partition, … Read more
More details for our events are below. Palestine Center Annual Conference 2022 The Jerusalem Fund invites you to our Palestine Center Annual Conference titled, ‘75 Years of Partition: Ethnic Cleansing and Dispossession’ to be held on November 11, 2022, in Washington, D.C. RSVP at Events@thejerusalemfund.org by sending us your name, title, and contact information. For … Read more
Job Type: Full Time in-personOpenings: 1 (one)Application Process Opens: ImmediatelyApplication Process Closes: Open until filledCategory: Entry or early mid-Level The Jerusalem Fund, a 501(c)(3)-registered non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., announces a position available as Program & Communications Manager. The Program & Communications Manager leads and facilitates programs for the smooth and efficient functioning of … Read more
“In the attached report, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese, addresses a number of human rights concerns, in particular regarding the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, in the context of the settler-colonial features of the prolonged Israeli occupation.”
Wednesday, October 19, 2022. 1:00 PM ET Palestinians in Gaza have lived under a brutal blockade for sixteen years, isolated from the rest of Palestine and the world. This distinctive anthology imagines the future of Gaza while reaffirming the critical role of Gaza in Palestinian identity, history, and the struggle for liberation. This event is … Read more
Silencing Palestinian Voices: Symposium on Human Rights watch the recorded lecture below Sahar Francis, since 2006, Sahar Francis has been the General Director of Ramallah-based Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, a Palestinian NGO providing legal and advocacy support to Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli and Palestinian prisons. An attorney by training, she joined … Read more
Silencing Palestinian Voices: Symposium on Human Rights Thursday, September 29, 2022 12:00 PM Eastern Time / 7:00 PM Palestine Jennifer Zacharia is an attorney and writer. She holds a JD from Columbia Law School and an MIA from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. A graduate of the University of California … Read more
Forty years ago, during the week of September 12, we were working in a Palestine Red CrescentSociety facility, Gaza Hospital, in Sabra Shatila camp in West Beirut. As health care workers, we weretrying to heal the wounds and repair the mutilated and destroyed bodies of those injured by Israel’sInvasion of Lebanon in June 1982. We … Read more
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