2021

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Stories, op-eds, events and press coverage from the bereaved families doing this work — and from the Americans standing with them.

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December 27, 2021

The Struggle in Sheikh Jarrah

by Yoav PeckDirector of Community RelationsParents Circle – Families Forum December 25, 2021 Learn more about our campaign to stand in solidarity with Palestinian communities affected by settler violence On Christmas Day, 50 activists from the Parents Circle…

November 24, 2021

Op-ed

Picture this scenario

by Osama Abu Ayyash and Yuval RahamimCo-DirectorsParents Circle – Families Forum November 6, 2021 Learn more about our campaign to stand in solidarity with Palestinian communities affected by…
November 9, 2021

Op-ed

Sharing hardship and solidarity on the Dead Sea – Members Picnic

by Yoav PeckDirector of Community RelationsParents Circle – Families Forum November 5, 2021 After two years of separation and Zooming, today 225 Palestinian and Israeli Parents Circle members…
November 9, 2021

Op-ed

Acknowledgement in Kfar Qasem

by Yoav PeckDirector of Community RelationsParents Circle – Families Forum October 30, 2021 Israel’s new president, Yitzhak Herzog, did yesterday what our parliament could not. He stood at…
October 27, 2021

Op-ed

Visit to Wadi Fukin

by Mohammad al-BawPalestinian Community Relations ManagerParents Circle – Families Forum Today, Israeli and Palestinian alumni of the Parents Circle’s Parallel Narrative Program visited the West Bank village of…
October 25, 2021

Solidarity

Olive Harvest in At-Tuwani

In October 2021 and 2022, we visited at-Tuwani in the south Hebron Hills to pick olives. Forty of us from the Parents Circle – Families Forum, Palestinians and…
October 25, 2021

Solidarity

Supply Truck to Tubas

Following last week’s solidarity visit by bereaved members of to Bedouin communities in the Jordan Valley, this past weekend PCFF members distributed aid materials to the villagers, with…
October 14, 2021

Op-ed

The challenges of bringing reconciliation to schools

by Yoav PeckDirector of Community RelationsParents Circle – Families Forum Last Friday, Parents Circle – Families Forum staff organized a learning day for 30 Israeli and Palestinian facilitators…
October 12, 2021

Solidarity

In response to settler violence

This past weekend bereaved Israeli and Palestinian members of the Parents Circle visited the Palestinian village near Tubas — a Bedouin village that continues to suffer from damage…
October 4, 2021

Op-ed

To be honest, I’m scared

by Osama Abu AyyashPalestinian Co-DirectorParents Circle – Families Forum To be honest, the recent settler violence against Palestinians and their villages in the West Bank has me scared.…