Palestine

JOB OPENING — Executive Director

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Job Type: Full Time Openings: 1 (one) Application Process Opens: June 17, 2025Application Process Closes: Open until filled Category: Management, Executive leadership Salary: Commensurate with experience The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development, a registered 501(c)(3) private non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., announces a position available as Executive Director. This position serves as the public face of the Fund and manages the Fund’s educational (Palestine Center), cultural … Read more

EMERGENCY PALESTINE APPEAL: SUPPORT PALESTINIANS TODAY

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Dear Friends of The Jerusalem Fund, The situation in Palestine is beyond horrifying. As we approach 600 days of Israel’s war of extermination in Gaza, over half a million Palestinians face imminent starvation, with the UN warning that at any given moment, tens of thousands of children are hours away from death by malnutrition as … Read more

Israel Is Using Starvation as a Weapon to Break Gaza

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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

How the World Failed Gaza: The Great March of Return Six Years On – A Conversation with Dr. Norman Finkelstein

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This year, March 30th commemorates the sixth anniversary of the Great March of Return, a mass mobilization effort initiated in Gaza in 2018. This March of Return aimed to highlight the dire circumstances faced by two million Palestinians in Gaza, 70% of whom are refugees, living under a severe blockade that has rendered the Gaza … Read more

Unity and Aid: A Ramadan Appeal to Save Gaza from Starvation

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Dear Friends, As we continue our mission in 2024, the gravity of the crisis in Gaza compels us to reach out for your support once again. The devastating genocide has plunged the Gaza Strip into an unprecedented humanitarian emergency, with over 500,000 people at risk of imminent famine. During this holy month of Ramadan, children … Read more

Flames of Conscience: America’s Tipping Point on the Gaza Genocide?

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When Aaron Busnell, a US airman, committed the act of setting himself ablaze outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., his final declaration was a refusal to “be complicit in genocide.” As flames consumed him, his cries of “Free Palestine” pierced the air, marking an act of ultimate sacrifice. The act of self-immolation, a path … Read more

The Jerusalem Fund’s Executive Director Sheds Light on Palestinian Perspectives at University of Richmond

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On Tuesday, February 27, 2024, The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development made a significant impact at the University of Richmond with a compelling lecture delivered by its Executive Director, Jehad Abusalim. Addressing an engaged audience that included the University’s Provost and over 60 students and faculty members, Abusalim provided a detailed exploration of … Read more

Rafah and the Specter of Expulsion 

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The window for a ceasefire in Gaza is rapidly closing, with unimaginable consequences on the horizon. Netanyahu, with the staunch support of the Biden Administration, appears unyielding in his pursuit of the genocidal campaign Israel launched in Gaza. This stubbornness persists even as Israel fails to meet any of its publicly stated objectives, notably the elimination … Read more

Gaza: A Model of Exclusion and Its Implications for Global Politics

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In October 2021, authors and scholars Ivar Ekeland and Sara Roy contributed a significant essay on Gaza to the Markaz Review, entitled “The New Politics of Exclusion: Gaza as Prologue.” In their essay, Roy and Ekeland present the argument that Gaza epitomizes the evolving politics of exclusion and control prevalent in modern society. They assert … Read more

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