10.12.2025
Reflection
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We are all relieved that Oct 7th passed relatively uneventfully. Compared to when I was last here, over 25 years ago, Palestinians are les...
Rooted in History, Al-Khalil Under Attack
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Standing in the center of the shop in the Old City of Hebron, known as Al-Khalil to Palestinians, stands a 300-year old sesame press. His...
10.07.2025
Reflections on Arriving to Falastin
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On landing to Ben-Gurion on the evening of Rosh Hashanah in the year 5786, it was unmistakable to me that I was arriving to a nation at wa...
10.04.2025
Hope and Resistance
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At the conclusion of our morning tour with ICAHD, (formerly known as the Israeli Committee Against House Demolition and now an internation...
11.02.2024
It Will Fall
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The fences with barbed wire are everywhere, a tangible separation to remind them all, Palestinian and Israeli alike, that there is a differe...
11.01.2024
Seeds of Hope
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As we do UCPA (Unarmed Civilian Protection Accompaniment) work year-in and year-out, our doubts can outweigh our confidence. It helps to see...
10.31.2024
The Road Home
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“I hate this place so much,” I thought. It’s was 7:46 PM and the checkpoint to get home was closed early. “Why does it have to be so hard?!”...
10.30.2024
Common Pigeons
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It is early morning and the shops are just opening. A shop owner walks out and spreads a bag of grain on the ground. The pigeons descend by ...
10.29.2024
A Ridge that Divides
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Looking across the valley, I see the land of a farmer I know. His family land runs from the olive trees below his house up over the ridge wi...
10.28.2024
Rock Land
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The land is rock. Not rocks, but sheets of rock. Not dirt punctuated by many rocks, but sheets of rock marked with gaps and divots. Some big...
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