Palestinian children waiting for hot meals distributed by humanitarian organizations as they face hunger on January 4, 2025, in the Gaza Strip. (Hassan Jedi / Anadolu via Getty Images) After over a month of deploying every means at their disposal to sabotage and collapse the ceasefire agreement with Palestinian resistance forces led by Hamas, Israel … Read more
The Jerusalem Fund warmly invites you to “Facing Palestine’s Silent Killer: The Fight Against Diabetes,” a virtual educational and fundraising event highlighting the pivotal work of the Palestine Diabetes Institute (PDI). Founded in 2009, the PDI diligently serves Palestinian communities across three major cities, Nablus, Hebron, and Al-Bireh, leading the charge against the escalating diabetes … Read more
Violence in Jenin On Monday, the refugee camp of Jenin was a prism of violence: within just 0.16 square miles, 14,000 Palestinians were under the thumb of Israeli drones and guns. Black smog and thousands of Israeli soldiers replaced the produce and schoolchildren in its crowded alleyways. With just a single bomb, a densely populated … Read more
The Jerusalem Fund commemorated International Women’s Day, which the world celebrates annually on March 8th in order to shed light on issues relating to gender and women’s rights, with a virtual discussion with Asmaa AbuMezied, an expert in gender and economic justice, on the current realities facing Palestinian women. Watch or read the transcript below … Read more
Palestinian-American poet and environmental scholar Sharif Elmusa, and activist artist Susan Smith present an intersectional multimedia event that includes readings of poetry of and about the refugee experience from different world-regions with an exhibition of recent artwork.
Panelists Josh Ruebner, Lamis Deek, and Zena Agha address the issues of UNRWA, Activism, Legislation, Right of Return. Accompanying their presentations is a video prepared by Dr. Salman Abu Sitta on the attainable logistics of the right of return.
The Keynote Lecture of the 2018 Palestine Center Annual Conference is delivered by Dr. Riyad H. Mansour, Ambassador and Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations.
In this talk, Reverend Dr. Stephen Sizer discusses how the movement of Christian Zionism preceded Jewish Zionism by at least 50 years and facilitated the establishment of the State of Israel.
Ahmed Oudeh presents the work of Eshraqah Youth Organization (EYO) in Beit Ummar, which focuses on grass roots nonviolent action, community empowerment, and sustainable agriculture. In addition to developmental programs based on a model built and run by workers’ groups in their communities in Beit Ummar, the EYO has been involved in local and international conferences to promote strategies of non-violent action, to bring together Israelis opposing the occupation and Palestinian communities.
Through educational events, humanitarian support, and cultural preservation, the Jerusalem Fund is helping build the movement for Palestinian liberation.
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