Parents Circle in the Media

March 2025

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Before Nita Lowey died, Donald Trump eviscerated the $250M Middle East peace fund named for her | Cleveland Jewish News

Before Nita Lowey died, Donald Trump eviscerated the $250M Middle East peace fund named for her | Cleveland Jewish News All of the peace-building groups supported…

March 2025

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Trump wants campuses to fight antisemitism. Here’s how they should actually do it | The Forward

We must create programs where Israeli studies and Palestinian studies are explored in entwined fashion, to reflect the lived experience of people on the ground.

March 2025

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Crying Out In Pain | The Daily Journal

Last year I attended a presentation in Palo Alto by two bereaved mothers, one Palestinian, the other Israeli. Each had lost a child in the many…

February 2025

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Brothers in the name of peace | Vatican News

Israeli Maoz Inon and Palestinian Aziz Abu Sarah, who attended the “Arena of Peace” event in the northern Italian city of Verona in May 2024, where…

February 2025

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It’s Not Easy to Achieve Peace. So Do We Give Up Trying? | Haaretz

Our statesmen often resemble children squabbling so fiercely over a resource that they destroy it. There is another way

February 2025

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2024 Seán MacBride Peace Prize | International Peace Bureau

The 2024 Seán MacBride Peace Prize honors the selfless efforts and dedication of organizations and individuals who promote healing, restoration, and human rights while embodying the…

February 2025

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Israeli, Palestinian Speakers Share Message of Unity at Durham Synagogue | Chapelboro

Judea Reform Congregation, the main Reform synagogue in the Durham-Chapel Hill area, hosted two peace activists on Sunday from the Parents Circle – Families Forum, a…

February 2025

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Israel’s government is trying to limit international funding of human rights organisations | The Jewish Independent

International governments are key funders of human rights organisations in Israel. The Israeli government is trying to stymie their influence.

February 2025

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S3 E3 Robi Damelin, Parents’ Bereavement Circle: Between loss and hope for peace | Women Ending War Podcast

When Robi Damelin received the knock on the door that every parent dreads, her reaction was not what you might expect. Instead of calling for revenge…

February 2025

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‘If we lose hope, we lose everything’: Israeli and Palestinian speakers call for dialogue over division | The DePaulia

As a child, Arab Aramin threw stones at Israeli soldiers. As a teenager, Guy Elhanan prepared to take up arms in the Israeli military. On Tuesday,…

February 2025

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Listening from the heart: A visit from the Parents Circle – Families Forum | DePaul University

Arab Aramin and Guy Elhanan of the Parents Circle Families Forum shared their powerful journeys from tragic loss to a commitment to reconciliation with DePaul community…

February 2025

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As the Gaza ceasefire just about holds, the West Bank burns | Prospect

In the UK, at the Foreign Affairs Committee’s recently launched inquiry into the Israel-Palestine conflict, Bassem Aramin told MPs what daily life in the West Bank…

February 2025

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Bassam Aramin: Don’t play games with Palestinian lives, Mr Trump – we will never give up Gaza | Irish Independent

Gaza looks like casinos and condos to the US president but it belongs to the people who live there, and have lived there for centuries

February 2025

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Trump aid freeze shuts down peacebuilding | Jewish Independent

Peacebuilding organisations in Israel and the Palestinian territories have been forced to stop work after the US shut down foreign aid.

February 2025

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Joint Palestinian-Israeli organization visits DePaul to promote dialogue, reconciliation | DePaul University

Hear from bereaved family members who’ve lost loved ones in the conflict at event on Feb. 11

January 2025

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Colum McCann: There is much more to come in Israel-Hamas war, but we might just be at the beginning of the end | Irish Independent

Wars end. We tend to forget this. Inevitably, they must end. As sure as war, is the end of war. History teaches this in innumerable ways.

January 2025

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MPs to hear from grassroot organisations on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict | UK Parliament

The Foreign Affairs Committee continues its inquiry into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, hearing from grassroot organisations working in Israel and Palestine on Monday 27 January, at 2pm.

January 2025

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Adel Misk: the West Bank is the ‘new front’ of Netanyahu’s war in Gaza | Asia News

The Israeli military launched an operation in Jenin, dubbed Iron Wall, resulting in a dozen deaths with 35 wounded. For a Palestinian activist, Israel is imposing…

January 2025

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