Join CJNV for 10 days of nonviolent direct action, coresistance and solidarity in Israel-Palestine. We will be working with partners across Israel-Palestine.
The delegation will take place in early June 2022 (specific dates once you apply. If you are accepted and it turns out the dates do not work for you, we will hold your application for our next delegation).
If you have applied in the past, we need your updated information but you do not need to rewrite your short answer responses unless there are noteworthy changes. You can simply write, "applied in the past".
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It has been two years since our last delegation due to the travel restrictions of COVID. During this break in international travel, the situation on the ground has worsened and intensified in so many ways. Settler violence has been at historic levels, home demolitions have continued unabated, and all the while settlements and their associated infrastructure have spread and deepened across the West Bank. This past May, there was also a flare-up in tensions as Israel again attacked Gaza and protest spread across Israel-Palestine.
While travel was limited, we had many conversations with our partners about how we could continue showing up in solidarity and Hineinu: A Sustained Solidarity Presence was launched. Now that travel seems to be easing, we are thrilled to once again be planning for a delegation. Hineinu brought our relatoinships in the South Hebron Hills to a new level. This delegation will enter into that landscape and continue to broach powerful coresistance and solidarity between Jews and Palestinians in Israel-Palestine.
We believe that relationships rooted in deep solidarity and co-resistance between Palestinians, Israelis, and Jews from around the world will disrupt and destabilize the material and ideological systems that uphold the Israeli Occupation. Systems which harm communities on both sides of the Green Line, Palestinian and Israeli. We have seen these resistive relationships transform what is possible in our actions and in each of us, shifting movement landscapes and upending injustice.
On the ground, the network of civil resistance is rooting in the possibilities of this historical moment – where people power binds us together and breaks us out of the status quo. This is a moment to choose each other: to link arms, protect land, and build collective power.
All we need is you.
When we come together as a part of a network of joint civil resistance – across different identities, privileges and proximities to power – we manifest new realities and possibilities, powerfully countering the Occupation and the divide and conquer narratives which sustain it.
We invite multiple perspectives, approaches, beliefs and political ideologies, and we seek to cultivate dialogue and negotiation about these differences. Those affiliated with CJNV take a variety of positions on the Right of Return, BDS, solutions, Zionism, etc. We come together under a common banner of solidarity and co-resistance. We believe that in coming together across these differences we gain greater collective power, and we challenge and push each other to become fuller and more developed justice-seekers. We know this isn’t always easy and requires us to be in deep and vulnerable relationship with each other.
Our participating activists represent many genders, sexualities, races, nationalities, socio-economic classes, ages, levels of formal education, forms of religious observance, abilities and organizational affiliations. We embrace this diversity and expect that all participating activists will act with openness and respect toward all other participating activists at all times.
• Application Deadline: Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, so get your applications in early! The application deadline is January 31st.
- February 14, 2022: Applicants will be notified regarding acceptance and scholarship support.
- February 28, 2022: Final deadline for accepted participating activists to make $180 deposit to reserve their spot.
- March 28, 2022: Deadline for participating activists to make final payment.
Individuals who are likely candidates for participation will be contacted to arrange a 20 minute phone or Zoom interview.
• Please note that applications must be completed in one sitting and your answers will not be saved if you close out of the window. It should take about 20-30 minutes to fill out.
NOTE: We are vigilantly monitoring the health guidelines and travel regulations as they emerge. Our first priority is the health and wellness of our participants and our partners. We are developing plans and contingencies that account for various circumstances and will be in active conversation with each person interested in the delegation. Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions.
For the safety of our participants and partners, we require proof of full vaccination for all participants and uphold covid safety practices that align with CDC and Israel and Palestinian Health Ministry recommendations. COVID practice and protocol will be discussed ahead of the delegation.
As we continue to navigate the pandemic-related changes, CJNV will communicate any changes in a timely manner.
Additional information about the Center for Jewish Nonviolence and its campaigns can be found at cjnv.org or feel free to contact oriel@cjnv.org or clare@cjnv.org. Thank you.