Quaker-Palestinian Solidarity

Organizations

• American Friends Service Committee (AFSC): Quaker organization that mobilizes Friends for social justice, peace, and humanitarian service, including and especially in Israel/Palestine, with weekly Friday at Noon Action Hours at noon, Third Tuesday strategy sessions, BDS Office Hours, and other events and resources.
• Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL): Quaker advocacy organization with local chapters throughout the country whose lobbying is focused on halting weapons shipments to Israel, reducing U.S. tax dollars for war, and providing humanitarian aid to those in need in Israel/Palestine.
• Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO): Quaker advocacy organization at the UN calling for an end to the bloodshed and access of UN humanitarian agencies to Gaza and those in need.
• Middle East Collaborative: a group of Friends from the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (PYM) who host workshops, endorse humanitarian initiatives, and offer advice to PYM leadership on current issues relating to the Middle East
• Quaker Palestine-Israel Network (QPIN): network of Quakers across the country who meet monthly and share strategies on how to inspire Quakers and politicians in the U.S. to commit to peace & justice in Israel/Palestine
• Quakers for Peace in Palestine & Israel (QFPPI): Quaker group that organizes events promoting peace and justice in Israel/Palestine.
• Quakers Advocating Justice for Palestine (QAJP): Quakers from the New England Yearly Meeting who organize Palestine-Israel programs, foster minutes supporting Palestinian human rights, organize trips, and raise money for Ramallah Friends School.
• Palestine-Israel Action Group (PIAG): Ann Arbor Quaker group that promotes peace in Israel Palestine. PIAG has produced educational resources and tools for activists that can be used by religious and secular organizations locally, nationally, and internationally.
• Living Letters: annual Quaker trip to Ramallah Friends with Max and Jane Carter

Read

• Timeline of Quaker Involvement in the Middle East, PYM Middle East Collaborative
• Gaza Unlocked: AFSC website anthology of news updates, action items, and accounts from Palestinians in Gaza
• Book: Palestine and Israel: Understanding Encounters, Max L. Carter, February 2025; also see review
• New York Times rejects Quaker ad for calling Israel’s actions “genocide”, AFSC, January 8, 2025; Quaker group cancels planned ads with NYT for failure to refer to Israeli ‘genocide’, The New Arab, January 9, 2025
• The Struggle for Unity on Israel/Palestine: Reflections on AFSC’s Apartheid-Free Pledge, Steve Chase, November 1, 2024
• A different future is possible: Quaker organizations share a vision for peace in Palestine and Israel, April 12, 2024
• Bearing Witness for Peace, Sharlee DiMenichi, Friends Journal, April 5, 2024
• Speaking Up for Palestinian Rights Now, Steve Chase, Friends Journal, November 2, 2023
• Light in Gaza (book & PDF), AFSC book lifting up Palestinian voices, August 30, 2022
• When They Speak Israel: A Guide to Clarity in Conversations About Israel, book by Alex McDonald, January 20, 2021
• Book: Palestine and Israel: A Personal Encounter, Max L. Carter, February 2020; see also review
• Quakers and the Holy Land, Friends Journal, March 2018 Issue:
  • A Network of Love by Lois Jordan
  • What Once Was Can Be Again by Sandy Rea
  • Palestine and Israel: A Decolonial Framework for Justice and Peace by Tabitha Mustafa and Sandra Tamari
  • When Dialogue Stands in the Way of Peace by Mike Merryman-Lotze
  • A Loving Quaker Journey to BDS by Lauren Brownlee
• Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions? A Quaker Zionist Rethinks Palestinian Rights, Steve Chase, Pendle Hill Pamphlet, June 2017
• When the Rain Returns: Toward Justice and Reconciliation in Palestine and Israel, book by International Quaker Working Party, January 1, 2004

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