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Coronavirus in Palestine
The Coronavirus pandemic has hit Palestine. Palestinians have reacted with steadfastness and love to help others in quarantine.
Rest in My Shade
This beautiful gift book is a poem spoken by an ancient olive tree. It is the story of displacement, identity and loss told by a Palestinian olive tree, and is illustrated with olive trees by Palestinian artists from all over the world.
Mapping Palestine
Palestinians have been excluded from maps of their own land. Even satellite images like Google Earth use low resolution or leave places inhabited by Palestinians blank. Now Palestine Open Maps has published historic maps online that you can navigate.
Olive Harvest book
Here is a charming and beautifully illustrated book for the children in your life. Olive Harvest in Palestine is the story of Palestine. You see the excitement and joy of the family and the entire community in the olive harvest, all told through the eyes of children.
Olive harvest festival 2019
What a celebration! There was Musakhan - the olive oil and chicken harvest meal, sage tea on the fires, fresh olive oil from the press, taboun bread cooked over the coals in an olive wood oven. Live music - of course! - they dabked all day!
Poetic relationship: farmers & land
A gift for you this harvest: a beautiful photo essay from Palestine by Maggie Lemere in Pilgrim Magazine.
Chicano message of solidarity
Chicanos lost their lands in the southwest, Texas and surrounding areas in 1848. 100 years later, Palestinians were experiencing the same dispossession and colonizer violence.
Celebrate Indigenous Peoples!
As the earth warms, we are recognizing that indigenous people offer knowledge and a sustainable alternative, another way to see the world. Their wisdom can create the world in which we want to live, a world of peace, cooperation and justice.
I took a leap of faith…
Our Ambassador Linda Cohen opened "a little (non-profit) shop to present the Canaan Fair Trade products and Palestinian crafts" in Martha's Vineyard.
We stand with Mauna Kea
The people of Molokai support Palestine; they planted over 300 olive trees in Palestine this last year. Now the Native Hawaiians are protecting their sacred mountain from construction.