Earlier this month, a delegation from 60 Israeli peace and reconciliation groups travelled to Ramallah in the West Bank to meet representatives of the Palestinian authority and its president Mahmoud Abbas. The so-called It’s Time coalition pledged support for Palestinian statehood and presented an invitation to a People’s Peace Summit in Israel scheduled for May … Continue reading Not everyone in Israel has fallen in line with Netanyahu’s government | Index on Censorship

Peace activist Maoz Inon, whose parents, Bilha and Yakov Inon, were murdered in Kibbutz Netiv Ha’Asarah on October 7, 2023, makes a case for optimism as he speaks to roughly 100 people gathered outside the IDF headquarters’ Begin Road gate.

On my most recent trip to Israel and Palestine, in May of 2024, I listened to the heart-wrenching story of the sister of one of the Israeli hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza. I also met with Palestinian Christians from Bethlehem who feared for the lives of family members living under Israeli bombardment in … Continue reading Pro Israeli, Pro Palestinian, Pro Peace | Substack

Two fathers from opposite sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – Rami Elhanan, an Israeli Jew, and Bassam Aramin, a Palestinian – lost their daughters to violence and, against overwhelming odds, forged a bond of brotherhood.

Seated on the stage were Rami Elhanan and Bassam Aramin, along with acclaimed Irish novelist Colum McCann

Israeli activist Rami Elhanan and Palestinian activist Bassam Aramin have both experienced the devastating loss of their daughters in the Israel/Palestine conflict. Today, they work together to advocate for peace rather than retribution and have spent the week touring Ireland to give this message.

McCann is in Limerick this evening as the host of the Apeirogon: Until We Talk Tour at the Lime Tree Theatre. The event features a conversation between two bereaved fathers whose extraordinary friendship across the Israeli-Palestinian divide inspired McCann’s celebrated novel.

Today in Focus producer Natalie Ktena heads to a peace camp in Cyprus that aims to bring together children from Israel and the West Bank

Yonatan Zeigen calls for breaking the mould of a country at war where time has stood still since the tragedy of 7 October. The time has come to think about the present and the future, beyond Trump’s peace deal, and imagine a “different vision” based on “equality” between the two peoples.

Andrew Marr is joined by former Israeli reserve soldier and Parents Circle–Families Forum member Rami Elhanan to discuss the Gaza ceasefire. Mr Elhanan’s daughter was killed by a Palestinian suicide bomber in 1997.