August 2025
Summer Organizers’ Summit
In 2025, after suffering the painful loss of Palestinian community leader and human rights activist Awdah Hathaleen (who was murdered by an Israeli settler), we ran a pilot project called the Summer Organizers Summit. This project differed from our usual delegations in that we focused on directly recruiting representatives from a wide range of grassroots Jewish pro-Palestine organizations to connect and collaborate with each other and our Palestinian and Israeli partners. We brought together 16 organizers from France, the Netherlands, the UK, the US, Brazil, Argentina, and Canada representing Rabbis4Ceasefire, Erev Rav, IfNotNow, European Jews for Palestine, Na'amod, Vozes Judaicas por Libertação, Judies x Palestina, Global Jews for Palestine, Independent Jewish Voices, and Jewish Voice for Peace. We met with Palestinians from Masafer Yatta in the south of the West Bank to Burin, Jenin, Nablus, and Tulkarem in the north. We spent time in Jerusalem planning and learning with Israeli and other Jewish movement partners from Free Jerusalem, All That's Left: Anti-Occupation Collective, and Green Olive Collective. Over the course of our time together, we developed plans and projects to continue supporting one another and movement communities on the ground after returning home.