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May 31

Thread on first half of

’s #UniteTheField Conference here in Jerusalem. & a real tonic after disgraceful scenes in same city on Sunday. If you care about this place, the people in it, & their right to live in peace & equality: please support and platform this community 👇

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May 31

Today is #UniteTheField! ALLMEP’s largest ever gathering of Palestinian & Israeli peacebuilders. With hundreds of peacebuilders joined by diplomats & partners, & *over a dozen* sessions here in Jerusalem diving deep into civil society’s role in furthering peace & equality 1/

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Jamie Raskin is giving a barnstorming, tour de force speech on American democracy and constitutional reform. Incredibly impressive, and very stirring— even for this non citizen. Though still a *little* odd that Israel or Israeli-Palestinian conflict hasn’t yet figured #jstreet22

Are you at #JStreet22? Don’t miss the

@B8ofHope

MidEast Storytellers exhibition in the Ambassador’s Ballroom, profiling Israeli/Palestinian peacebuilders. Not at J Street? You can see them and hear their stories here: stories.allmep.org/home

J Street and 6 others

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Really excited about this, which is just over a week away now. Register via link below & hear from

@meganfdoherty

who’s leading the #MEPPA strategy and team at

@USAID

, providing unprecedented support to 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 peacebuilding projects that have *never* been more necessary than now.

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This year, ALLMEP's annual virtual gala will feature special guest speaker, @meganfdoherty, USAID Deputy Assistant Administrator (DAA) of @USAIDMiddleEast. Join us on December 11th, 2022 at 2pm EST for Meet the Moment. Register here: donate.allmep.org/a/meet-moment-

Parents Circle

@ThePCFF

"After 3 decades of failed top-down diplomacy, now is the time to invest in the bottom-up – and especially in the region’s youth. Doing so can avert a foreseeable and accelerating crisis, make weeks like those we’ve just lived though less likely"

Opinion | How to halt the startling radicalization of young Israelis and Palestinians

Avi Meyerstein

@AviMeyerstein

#Media too often distorts by fixating on people who say & do crazy things. It amplifies those who preach & practice violence. They are few but loud. The volume builds their power. If you want a fuller picture from the ground (& to amplify the good), check this out...

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ALLMEP announces the 2nd season of our Groundwork podcast, in partnership with the @NewIsraelFund, is coming this Spring! Hosted by @sally_abed and @dinakraft, Groundwork features stories of Palestinian and Israeli peace activists. 2nd season trailer here: open.spotify.com/episode/5xezGp

David Davidi-Brown

@davidbrown_83

‘Events are radicalising young Israelis & Palestinians. Disrupting those trends should be overarching goal for all who care about peace.’ Excellent piece John. Important

work: “Israelis & Palestinians coming together & confronting this drive to see each other as enemies.”

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My piece in @haaretzcom on crisis in youth attitudes powering Israel's far-right & WB violence, with so many of its victims so young. As well as one tool the international has— & can *actually* wield— that can help disrupt this impending catastrophe haaretz.com/israel-news/20

Thank you to

, Ofer,

& French consulate for this continued support of 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 peacebuilders

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(1/2) Yesterday, ALLMEP staff and several of its member orgs met with Special Envoy on the I-P Peace Process to French president @EmmanuelMacron, @oferbronchtein, and the Jerusalem Consulate. They discussed peacebuilding’s vital role in supporting conflict resolution.

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Jeremy Burton

@BurtonJM

"With few available routes for change, these young Israelis and Palestinians are prey to the disruptive promise of simple answers, violence and extremist ideologies." An important and wise read from

Opinion | How to halt the startling radicalization of young Israelis and Palestinians

Well said

“the November election was a wake-up call to the sort of politics now taking root among [Israel’s] youngest voters”, mirrored across the Green Line. Vacuums are filled by violence & the world is entirely AWOL, your MEPPA, an honorable, if small, exception

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Haaretz.com

@haaretzcom

How to halt the startling radicalization of young Israelis and Palestinians haaretz.com/israel-news/20

always hits the nail on the head. It’s an important time to support

partner organizations and support its efforts to scale

@USAID

’s MEPPA

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Ori Nir | اوري نير | אוֹרי ניר

@OriNir_APN

Hope-inspiring article by the smart John Lyndon

Opinion | How to halt the startling radicalization of young Israelis and Palestinians

Jen Pedersen

@jenpeders

Essential reading - By

on the need for peacebuilding support for Israeli and Palestinian youth. Opinion | How to halt the startling radicalization of young Israelis and Palestinians

Opinion | How to halt the startling radicalization of young Israelis and Palestinians

My piece in

on crisis in youth attitudes powering Israel's far-right & WB violence, with so many of its victims so young. As well as one tool the international has— & can *actually* wield— that can help disrupt this impending catastrophe

Opinion | How to halt the startling radicalization of young Israelis and Palestinians

As first-time voters flock to Israel's far-right & violence by settlers and Palestinian paramilitaries surges, a majority of young Israelis and Palestinians now believe the other side only understands force. Can this radicalization be halted?

Opinion | How to halt the startling radicalization of young Israelis and Palestinians

This is required reading for UK foreign policy community, with global problems now “crashing into front rooms” & new definitions— but esp new (and renewing old) institutions— required.

@FCDOGovUK

has been a world leader at that in past. And needs to think that way again

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David Miliband

@DMiliband

Text from my speech at Chatham House this week - Weathering the storm: The UK’s role in the world today rescue.org/uk/press-relea

Lauren R, MSW

@MymStrategies

Nov 29

Lastly, consider donating to

, another human and civil rights org doing amazing work around peace-building and community supports in Israel-Palestine. allmep.org/ways-to-give/

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Simon Schama’s History of Now review – this highly personal show is simplistic and outdated

Nov 28

Recently, ALLMEP staff Huda Abuarquob, Brian Reeves, and Nivine Sandouka met with members of the EU's Middle East- Israel, Occupied Palestinian Territories, and Middle East Peace process office and discussed ALLMEP's mission and working towards Israeli-Palestinian peace.

A big thank you to

and

for hosting the ALLMEP team, and for their continued vital support of Israeli/Palestinian peacebuilders. In this moment where their work— and that support— has perhaps never been more necessary

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Oh how I wish

’s warnings about post-truth & Russia’s rebooting of European wars of territorial conquest were “outdated” & “fighting old battles.” Odd review that seems to misunderstand series’ point. And maybe even history’s wider utility

theguardian.com

The academic’s look at truth, democracy and art has its heart very much in the right place. But too often it’s fighting old battles rather than grasping the modern reality of untruths

Niece of Iran’s supreme leader calls for countries to cut ties with regime

Axios

@axios

Nov 27

Official

Farideh Moradkhani, the niece of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and a rights activist, urged foreign governments to cut ties with Iran's regime in a video posted to YouTube.

axios.com

"Tell your governments to stop supporting this murderous and child-killing regime."

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Nov 27

Many Pal friends think Israeli journos mocked in Qatar is a small victory after so many losses. I get why. But it’s not. It’s heard (rightly or wrongly) not as critique of occupation, but of Jewish belonging in MENA. Which is zero-sum fuel of v worst forces in Israeli politics

Nov 27

Love to see cooperation among ALLMEP members! Don’t miss

@ExtendPrograms

’ Gala next week, featuring

@omdimbeyachad

leader (& cohost of Groundwork, ALLMEP’s podcast with our friends at

@NewIsraelFund

) the fantastic

@sally_abed

. Registration details in link below 👇

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Extend

@ExtendPrograms

Nov 26

Huge reason to come to Extend’s gala: you’ll meet @sally_abed. As Israel inaugurates its most right-wing government yet, Sally leads the largest Jewish-Palestinian grassroots movement for democracy & human rights, Standing Together. Register to hear her! extendprograms.org/extend-gala-20

Ursula von der Leyen

@vonderleyen

Nov 26

90 years after the Holodomor, the Kremlin is again using food as a weapon. We stand with Ukraine to guarantee global food security. Under President

@ZelenskyyUa

's Grain from Ukraine initiative, the

@EU_Commission

will pay to ship 40,000 tons of Ukrainian grain via two boats.

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Very unclear (esp in Chinese case) where— if anywhere—this all goes. But quite incredible to see protests spread right across two of world’s most authoritarian & repressive regimes. All power & respect to brave people demanding their freedom #ChinaUprising #IranRevoIution2022

An Israeli Schoolboy Died in the West Bank. To Find His Body, Foes Joined Forces.

Nov 25

Fantastic reporting by

@PatrickKingsley

, on story that 280 characters cannot do justice to. But shows that cooperation among enemies is not only possible but *necessary* to solve I/P’s problems. And space for that activity must be grown, rather than shrunk

nytimes.com

After Palestinian gunmen refused to hand over a dead Israeli teenager on Tuesday, officials on both sides of the conflict worked together to recover his abducted body.

Tomorrow's Youth Organization

Nov 25

Fantastic to see the graduation of first cohort of trainees from this exceptional

@tomorrowsyouth

program funded by

@USAIDWBG

’s #MEPPA. Excited to see this program continue to grow and prosper

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@tomorrowsyouth

@tomorrowsyouth concludes our Employability Skills Training in partnership with Dimensions Consulting for the first group of trainees, under the Women Entrepreneurship Development (WED) program funded by @USAIDWBG 1/2 #WED #usaid #Entrepreneurship #women

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“Tens of thousands” to join Israeli security as part of Border Police revamp - Jerusalem24

Nov 25

Good overview of the expanded Border Police & new Israeli National Guard adding “tens of thousands of Israelis” that Bennett said was his “concluding move” as Prime Minister back in June. And is now all under control of Itamar Ben Gvir.

jerusalem.24fm.ps

Jerusalem24 – In a joint speech last night by the Israeli Ministry of Internal Security and the Prim

Jewish Leadership Council

Atwan has defended/rationalised violence against civilians many times now. Over decades. Dehumanising *both* Israelis & Palestinians in media happens way too often. & we’re in midst of I/P crisis that’ll likely get worse, as, sadly will that tendency, which needs to be called out

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@JLC_uk

Co-CEO Claudia Mendoza in the @JewishChron on the BBC's decision to platform Abdel Bari Atwan thejc.com/news/news/bbc-

Great

interview with

, articulating what’s needed when values of peace & equality threatened, & despair is spreading. “We can’t just sit & sulk. We need to get out & fight, & I’m convinced there are enough people who want to fight.”

This civil society leader is ready to take the battle for Israeli democracy to the streets

Gregg Carlstrom

@glcarlstrom

United States Enters a New Era of Direct Confrontation With Iran

The administration made early missteps on the JCPOA, but this state of affairs is now really the fault of an Iran that balked at re-entering the deal, ramped up uranium enrichment to 60%, sold drones to Russia and started shooting loads of innocent people.

nytimes.com

The Biden administration has imposed new sanctions on Tehran and expressed support for protesters, as the Iranian government aids Russia in the Ukraine war and continues nuclear enrichment.

Wonderful to hear UK Shadow Chancellor

@RachelReevesMP

restate

@UKLabour

@Keir_Starmer

’s support for International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace at

@_LFI

annual lunch— where she also applauded “pioneering work” of our member

@EcoPeaceME

, who she &

@DavidLammy

met this year

Neri Zilber

@NeriZilber

Israeli officials praising PA for its role in resolving this peacefully. Per IDF official, PA General Intelligence negotiated w gunmen in Jenin Refugee Camp. Israel didn't give anything in return. If talks failed IDF "was ready to go into camp full force..would've been v violent"

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Neri Zilber

@NeriZilber

Body of Druze Israeli citizen kidnapped by Palestinian militants in Jenin yday returned earlier this am to his family. Comes after coordination w Palestinian Authority, international mediators & threatened (harsh) Israeli economic & security response if body wasn’t returned

The last 24 hours of violence, and the weeks of escalation that led up to it, have followed a tragic pattern that cannot go unchecked. Our hearts are broken for all those impacted by this. The attacks in Jerusalem this morning. The IDF raids in Nablus. The abduction in Jenin.

This is horrific. Druze 12th grader went to WB to get car fixed & seriously injured in accident. PIJ abduct him while on life support— kill him in process— & hold body for ransom. Now reports of Druze marching to Jenin, & yet another front in unfolding 2022 I/P disaster opens 😞

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Adin - עדין

@AdinHaykin1

Israeli Druze protest and demand the return of Tiran Peru's body from Jenin

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As further update: The boy whose body kidnapped was 12th grade student who went to get car repaired in WB. The 16yo killed in Nablus follows a 17yo killed in Jenin day before. The victim of todays bus bombing was 16yo yeshiva student. Children. Being fed into a meat grinder

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In last 24hrs: - 16yo Pal killed by IDF in Nablus - body of 18yo Israeli abducted by Pal gunmen - Two bombs packed with nails exploded on buses crammed with teens on way to school: 1 dead & ~20 injured Another generation of young Israelis & Palestinians, victims of this madness

What we *need* is policy and action that puts conflict resolution as its core organising principle. What we have, increasingly, appears to be the precise opposite.

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EU and Palestinians

@EUpalestinians

1/2 Appalled by news that ISF demolished the donor funded Sfai school in Masafer Yatta in occupied Palestinian territory, one day after a diplomatic visit by several EU

member states. Palestinian children’s right to education must be respected.

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Barak Ravid

@BarakRavid

Explosions in Jerusalem kill 1 and injure at least 15

One person was killed and 15 others were wounded in two explosions in Jerusalem on Wednesday morning. Israeli police and security officials say it was a terrorist attack. My report on

@axios

axios.com

Israel officials called it a terrorist attack.

Thinking of friends & colleagues in Jerusalem. Horrible scenes we haven’t seen for years, & yet more senseless loss of life. 2022 was already most violent year since 2nd Intifada. Now, as it comes to close, we see return of bombs on buses, one of era’s most horrific legacies 😞