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Day 3 of the Delegation: USPCN Enters the West Bank
Day 3 of the Delegation: USPCN Enters the West Bank Help Support USPCN’s Delegation to Palestine! Donate here! Arriving early morning in the West Bank, we were warmly greeted by Adnan of the Freedom Theater, located in the heart of Jenin refugee camp. The majority of the camp’s 14,000 residents were displaced from the Carmel…
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Day 2 of the Delegation: USPCN Visits Bedouin Communities in 1948 Palestine
Help Support USPCN’s Delegation to Palestine! Donate here! USPCN is in 1948 Palestine for a second day. We toured the Naqab (major desert area in the south of 1948 Palestine), which accounts for 2/3 of the land within Israel, and is home to the largest Bedouin community in the world. There we met with one…
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USPCN Leaders Arrive in Palestine as Delegation Project is Relaunched!
Help Support Our Delegation! Donate here! From 2000 until 2010, the U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) and its precursor organizations sent almost 100 people—Arab American and solidarity activists, organizers, students, artists, nurses, lawyers, and more—on educational trips to Palestine, and today, we proudly announce that we have officially relaunched our delegation project! The current delegates…
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USPCN Report on #Nakba70 Protests & Support for #GreatReturnMarch
One hundred and fourteen (114) Palestinians in Gaza have been killed since starting the #GreatReturnMarch on Land Day (March 30th), including over 60 on May 14th alone, the day before Trump officially moved the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Among those Palestinians massacred by the apartheid Israeli regime are 14 children. …
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USPCN Marching for Right of Return in Cities Across the U.S.
USPCN is calling on people across the U.S. to protest, rally, and march in support of the Right of Return for all Palestinian refugees and their descendants! The 70th commemoration of Al-Nakba (“the Catastrophe”) is next week, and it is certain that besides the #GreatReturnMarch in Gaza, Palestinians in 1948, Jerusalem, and the West Bank…
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On Land Day, Israel Attacks and Massacres Palestinians in Gaza
On Land Day, Israel Attacks and Massacres Palestinians in Gaza (Above photo credit: Jack Guez/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images) Today, March 30th, when USPCN, Palestinians, and supporters all across the world remember the six martyrs killed by Israeli soldiers in 1976, the terrorist Israeli state continues its murderous rampage against our people in Gaza. Over…
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Samidoun: Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi to be sentenced to 8 months in Israeli prison
Ahed Tamimi, 17-year-old activist from Nabi Saleh whose case has received widespread global attention, will be sentenced to eight months in Israeli prison following a plea bargain on March 21 at Ofer military court, Palestinian media have reported. The plea bargain will involve a modified indictment with four items instead of the 12 that were…
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A Letter of Greetings from Amman
USPCN can’t help but miss Rasmea Odeh this holiday season, especially as her city of Jerusalem (she was born in the tiny village of Lifta, which is directly adjacent to the Palestinian capital), as well as the issue of Palestinian political prisoners, is all over the news. She would have been here with us the…
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Emergency Rally in Chicago Dec. 7th: #Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine!
Emergency Rally in Chicago: #Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine! WHEN: Thursday, December 7th, at 4:30 PM WHERE: Federal Plaza (Adams and Dearborn), downtown Chicago Facebook event page #HandsOffJerusalemChi In the wake of Trump’s announcement declaring U.S. support for Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and the moving of the U.S. embassy there, the Coalition…
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USPCN Supporting Addameer National Tour with Sahar Francis
USPCN Supporting Addameer National Tour with Sahar Francis USPCN is supporting the U.S. tour of Sahar Francis, General Director of the Ramallah, Palestine-based Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, a Palestinian NGO providing legal and advocacy support to Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli and Palestinian prisons. An attorney by training, she joined the association…