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From the Shadow of Peace: A Palestinian’s Journey from the West Bank to the World

Author: B from the West Bank
Published: September 7, 2025
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, English, Identity, Israel-Palestine, Latest Articles, Palestine, Travel, כללי
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I am a young Palestinian, born and raised in the West Bank. To outsiders, this place might seem like just another name on a political map or a headline in the news. But for me, it was my whole world — a place full of questions. The West Bank wasn’t just a location; it was […]

Letter to my anti-Zionist friend in the West

Author: Kacper Max
Published: August 3, 2025
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, Identity, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Opinion and Analysis, Politics
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Tags: #thinkactyala, change, conflict, education, identity, israel, IsraelPalestine, peace, thewest, tolerance, yala young leaders, yalayoungleaders, zionism

Why write it? Why try? The complete breakdown of a political and social relationship between the Zionist and anti-Zionist Left after October 7th must belong to the most alarming (and interesting) developments on the Western Left as a whole in recent years. The loss of mutual trust and bilateral allegations of betrayal of values have […]

Whose Responsibility is it?

Author: Ma’ayan
Published: December 24, 2024
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, Education, English, Human Rights, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Latest Articles
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Tags: #thinkactyala, activism, change, coexistence, conflict, discovertheregion, education, family, hope, Humanity, identity, Inspiration, israel, IsraelPalestine, love, MENA, palestine, peace, peace activism, peacebuilding, tolerance, women, womenforpeace, yala young leaders, yalayoungleaders

“You are not an observer, you are a participant.” ― Thích Nhất Hạnh. There is a moment when you can’t sit still anymore. An energy bustling from within you makes you speak or take a step. You are standing in line and hear a conversation you think could be different if you were part […]

Why I No Longer Talk to Westerns About Peace (And what can be done to start talking about it again)

Author: Anonymous
Published: December 16, 2024
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, English, Friendship, Identity, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Opinion and Analysis, Travel
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Tags: change, conflict, identity, israel, IsraelPalestine, peace, peace activism, peace privilege, peacebuilding, sociology, the west, Travel, war, womenforpeace, yala young leaders, yalayoungleaders

While traveling and especially while hiking, sleeping in hostels or guest houses, you talk to all sorts of people. It was mid-April, probably the best season in Northern Spain, and my first meaningful conversation on the Camino del Norte was with an Irish author, just before descending to a beautiful coastal town named Zarautz. It […]

قصة نور Nour’s Story

Author: Nour Yahya
Published: December 9, 2024
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, Education, English, Human Rights, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Politics, Videos
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Tags: activism, conflict, education, gaza, gazawar, gazayouth, hope, identity, israel-palestine, IsraelPalestine, Life in Gaza, Palestinian Women, women, womenforpeace

The View from the Ground: An Israeli’s Experience Studying in the UK this Past Year

Author: Roy Shinar Cohen
Published: November 25, 2024
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, English, Israel, Israel-Palestine
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Every time a fellow Israeli asks me if I am okay, assuming I experience antisemitism in my daily life I am slightly taken aback. Since the October 7th attack, messages, phone calls, and inquiries from nearly everyone I know have poured in, all wondering if my time at the University of Oxford mirrors what is portrayed […]

Layers of History: The Awakening of a Nation. A tunsi in the pursuit of self-discovery.

Author: Hafez
Published: June 22, 2023
Categories: in Art, Latest Articles, Tunisia
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How one museum date revived my journey to understand national and individual identities. Growing up, school represented the lens through which I got a glimpse of the outer world. Education helped me realize that life was much more than what the remote village I lived in had to offer. But it also helped me understand […]

How Palestinian can I be in Israel?

Author: Anonymous
Published: April 20, 2023
Categories: in Arabic, Hebrew, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine
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How Palestinian can I be in Israel? By: Anonymous Author It’s a cold winter day in Jerusalem. After doing my morning routine, I dress up and go to the closet’s bottom shelf to get a scarf to keep me warm. I bend towards the shelf and reach for my Palestinian scarf, my 7atta Filistiniye. I […]

In a climate & ecological emergency we must find a middle ground in the Middle East, by Matai Ben Aharon, Israel

Author: Matai Ben Aharon, Israel
Published: June 28, 2021
Categories: in Current Events, English, Environment, Israel
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Tags: carbon emitters, Ecology, fossil fuel, global warming, middle east, Middle East voices

The Middle East is a microcosmos of the world regarding the climate and ecological emergency – the division between rich fossil fuel economies and corporations, who are responsible for more than 40% of the world’s emission, and emerging nations who are going to be hit by the crisis the most, contributing close to zero to […]

Blue, White, & Pink All Over: Why Gay Israel is False Advertising, By Gavi Nelson, Israel

Author: By Gavi Nelson, Israel
Published: June 2, 2021
Categories: in Current Events, English, Gender and LGBTQ, Israel, Opinion and Analysis
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Tags: gaypride, LGBTQI, pinkwashing, pride, pride month, Queer

*The following article uses the terms LGBTQIA+, queer, and gay interchangeably to understand that each person has their own preference. My sincerest apologies in advance to those who don’t feel represented by the aforementioned labels, but please know you are included in my intentions. Pinkwashing is defined by Pinkwatching Israel, an online resource hub […]

Opinion| I wish I did not have to write #Save_Sheikh_Jarrah, By P, Israel

Author: By P, Israel
Published: May 10, 2021
Categories: in Civil Activism, Conflict & Peacebuilding, Current Events, English, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Opinion and Analysis, Politics
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Tags: Eviction, jerusalem, middle east, Middle East voices, MiddleEast, Save_Sheikh_Jarrah, Sheikh_Jarrah, stop the violence

I wish I did not have to write this. I wish I did not have to share about me, because the last thing I want is to make this about me. I wish I did not have to take a stand. I wish families could live in their homes and feel safe there, without having […]

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The art I longed

Author: by Mavira Gutt Rojas, Israel | Opinion
Published: April 29, 2021
Categories: in Current Events, Israel, Life Style, Opinion and Analysis
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Tags: Coronavirus, feelings, Lifestyle

2020. Netanya. An inert shadow invaded these cloister times. The imagination, the inspiration, and the willingness to create faded. Caused, I presume, by the pandemic that affected us all differently. I dare to state that more than being disconnected of all social interaction, was that the solely connection to the outside world was a window […]

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Global Citizenship: Isn’t it more an identity we shall embrace?

Author: By Rachida, Morocco/Tunisia | Opinion
Published: April 29, 2021
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, Identity, Life Style, Morocco, Opinion and Analysis, Tunisia
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Tags: Global Citizen, identity, Lifestyle

Isn’t it frustrating to only live once? A lot of exquisite spirits to meet and deep stories to hear. A lot of fabulous places to go and cultures to get inspired from. A lot to read about the world and to discover about yourself. A lot to receive and a lot to give to your […]

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Living between Two Countries-Under Stress

Author: By Aseel, Palestine | Opinion
Published: April 11, 2021
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Opinion and Analysis, Palestine, Tolerance
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Tags: conflict, intifada, israel, palestine

The life of a Jerusalemite family after the second intifada “Alaqsa intifada” 2000-2005, During the period of the Palestinian second intifada (Intense Israeli-Palestinian violence period, Palestinians consider it as an uprising against Israel, while Israelis describe it as prolonged terror campaign), Israel used it as a pretext to control all areas in Jerusalem and control […]

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Who celebrates Nowruz?

Author: By Doā, Iraq
Published: March 21, 2021
Categories: in Culture and Heritage, Current Events, Iran, Iraq
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Tags: celebration, Kurds, New Year

Kurds in Iraq, Turkey, Russia, Pakistan, Germany, and Iran celebrate Newroz (alternatively pronounced Nowruz in Iran, as phonetic spelling varies) as their New Year’s Day on March 20th, the first day of Spring. Newroz originated in Persia in religious traditions of Zoroastrianism. Kurdish New Year’s Nowruz is the Kurdish celebration of the Persian […]

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Hakama! We are the revolution

Author: By Khalid, Sudan | Opinion
Published: March 4, 2021
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Opinion and Analysis, Sudan, Tolerance
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Tags: Movements, revolution, sudan, war

Between the sounds “Zgareed” and under the showers of bullets, people are masked with Hijabs, preventing the arrival of tear gas. Inside neighborhoods, universities, and public areas, individuals are shouting “Freedom, peace, justice!” In Sudan, my country as an Arab-African society as well as a multicultural community with different ethnicities, there were always these traditional […]

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Revisted memories from the Chadian-Libyan WAR

Author: By Malak, Libya
Published: March 1, 2021
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Libya, Opinion and Analysis
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Tags: Chad, Libyia, memories, Testimonies, war

Chad war is a memory that may ended. Nevertheless, it is still revisited in political conversations and debates. The Chadian–Libyan conflict was a series of military campaigns in Chad between the period of 1978 and 1987. Fought between Libyan and allied Chadian forces against Chadian groups. Supported by France, with the occasional involvement of other foreign countries […]

A grown-up child in a conflict-zone, by Aseel S, Palestine

Author: By Aseel S, Palestine
Published: February 24, 2021
Categories: in Conflict & Peacebuilding, Culture and Heritage, English, Identity, Israel-Palestine, Palestine
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Tags: checkpoint, Conflict-zone, storytelling

My name is Aseel and as a girl who was raised in a conflict, I got through a lot of stories I could tell you about. Still, I chose this one because it was the first time I realised that I was living in a conflict zone, and I will always suffer from it until […]

Opinion | Arabic in Israel, by Adi Gura

Author: By Adi Gura, Israel
Published: February 1, 2021
Categories: in Arabic, Education, Friendship, Identity, Israel, Life Style, Opinion and Analysis
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Tags: Arabic, Culture, Friendship, israel, Relationship, Society

On the 23rd of March of 2011, a terror attack occurred in Jerusalem on the 74-bus line. I was reminded of this event when I opened my old diary and randomly stopped at the page that mentioned it. When I continued reading, I noticed that the tone of my writing was so emotional, I could […]

Opinion | Can Palestinians become less divided? By Alaa, Palestine

Author: By Alaa, Palestine
Published: January 17, 2021
Categories: in Analysis, Culture and Heritage, Identity, Life Style, Opinion and Analysis, Palestine, Tolerance
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Tags: Divisions, Media, palestine, Relationship, Society, Solution

Can Palestinians become less divided? Since joining the Hebrew university 4 years ago, I started a long journey ofdiscovering new things, people, and cultures, which opened my eyes to the different views of Palestinians in their own eyes and the others’. I’m half Jerusalemite, was born and raised in the holy city and out […]

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