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Parents Circle in the Media
Two decades of reporting on bereaved Israeli and Palestinian families who chose reconciliation — newest first.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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…
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January 2025
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A better future for all between the river and the sea’ | Al Jazeera
Maoz Inon’s parents were killed in Hamas’s October 7 attack. With a ceasefire now in effect, he says Israelis and Palestinians need to chart a new…
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January 2025
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This War Has Cost Us Too Much | Pressenza
Our hearts have been torn apart every single day over the past 466 days of unimaginable devastation, fear, and loss.
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January 2025
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Peacemakers hope Israel-Hamas ceasefire will hold: ‘It’s time for this nightmare to end.’ | USA Today
Relieved. Hopeful. Even optimistic. Those are the immediate reactions of some peacebuilders in the Gaza Strip, the U.S., and elsewhere abroad Wednesday after Israel and the…
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January 2025
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Gaza: For Vivian Silver’s son, a ceasefire is positive, but no peace is possible without new leaders | Asia News
Yonatan Zeigen, son of an Israeli pacifist killed on 7 October, speaks to AsiaNews about the question of “power and interests” behind the agreement, starting with…
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January 2025
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Torturing Palestinians in Israeli Prisons Won’t Bring My Brother Back to Life | Haaretz
Mainstream Israel customarily venerates bereaved families, even sanctifying them. Some would say that the situation has changed recently, but this position is also based on the…
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January 2025
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Peace talks with a twist: ordinary Israelis and Palestinians try to find common ground | SBS News
As talks continue in Doha in an attempt to reach a hostage deal and potential ceasefire in Gaza… five thousand kilometres away in London, a different…
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January 2025
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Breaking the Cycle of Hate: Israelis and Palestinians United for Peace | LinkedIn
In this heart-stirring video, two extraordinary individuals—Robi Damelin, an Israeli mother, and Bassam Aramin, a Palestinian father—share their deeply personal journeys from unimaginable loss to a…
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December 2024
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My son was murdered in Israel. I finally found a reason to live. | Washington Post
Michal Halev, an Israeli American and former facilitator of women’s circles and emotional counseling, is a mother. After Oct. 7, I joined a family nobody wants…
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December 2024
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Our Only Option: Israelis and Palestinians Need More – and More Equal – Partnerships | Haaretz
Time since October 7 is counted in various ways: by months, by days, by seconds, by bodies. I don’t care too much which way time passed…
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December 2024
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I am a Jew from Jerusalem, and I believe that Ireland is on the right side of history | Irish Independent
My name is Rami Elhanan. I am an Israeli and a Jew. I am a seventh-generation Jerusalemite. My father was a ‘graduate’ of the Holocaust.
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December 2024
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Listening from the Heart | LearningWell
A new educational program promotes empathy through stories of shared humanity
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December 2024
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Banning the Parents Circle Program: Israel’s Education Minister and His Sycophants Are Unfit to Deal With Education | Haaretz
At the beginning of the month, an internal Education Ministry committee convened to consider whether to restore the Parents Circle – Families Forum, an Israeli-Palestinian group…
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December 2024
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In Israel’s Education Minister’s Feud With This Israeli-Palestinian Group, Facts Are Meaningless | Haaretz
Israel’s Education Ministry has once again barred the Parents Circle – Families Forum, a joint Israeli-Palestinian group of bereaved parents, from inclusion in its database of…
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December 2024
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Doing Nothing Guarantees a Future Without Hope’ Say Israeli and Palestinian Peace Activists | Haaretz
The organizers of a recent six-day peace march from Shfaram to the Gaza border, that drew much smaller crowds than the previous peace event by the…
