When the COVID-19 arrived in Israel and Palestine in March 2020, the social and economic effects were immediately devastating. But efforts to stop the spread of the virus have also had a significant impact on the region’s civil society and their work towards peace.
ALLMEP is seeks a self-starting, detail oriented, independent team member with fundraising and database management experience to drive ALLMEP’s fundraising activities.
The House Committee on Appropriations has just passed the Middle East Partnership for Peace Act, historic legislation, delivering unprecedented funding for Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilding and Palestinian economic development.
When successfully enacted, this new fund would radically scale up peace and reconciliation programing in Israel and Palestine.
The coronavirus pandemic has forced all of us to change the way we work. ALLMEP members, whose work is essential to many Israeli and Palestinian communities, and centers around bringing people together, this crisis has posed a tremendous challenge.
As the largest network of Israeli and Palestinian peacebuilders, ALLMEP includes over 120 organizations with differing ideas about how to resolve this conflict. What unites us is our belief that peace can only be achieved through equal consent, partnership, and self-determination.
COVID-19 has the exact same approach as our network: people-to-people. This crisis has created enormous disruption for the peacebuilding community, and with the threat of annexation on the horizon, their values are needed more than ever.
Deeming them prisoners of conscience, Amnesty International is calling for the immediate release of ALLMEP members from the Gaza Youth Committee.
ALLMEP strongly objects to the unjust detention of seven peace activists from our member organization, the Gaza Youth Committee.
We are greatly troubled by President Trump’s plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace and its dangerous breaks with longstanding norms regarding how peace can be achieved in our region.
