Learn with us in Israel-Palestine
Come meet today’s democracy and human rights leaders in Israel-Palestine
Extend introduces you to grassroots leaders fighting for democracy in communities across Israel-Palestine. From Tel Aviv to Hebron, Extend’s educational programs equip you with the knowledge and moral urgency to join the movement for democracy and human rights. Extend has been featured in Haaretz, Slate, and at the United Nations, and called “the most thought-provoking days of my year.” Our community of 800+ alumni include rabbis, elected officials, orthodox yeshiva students, journalists, and artists raising their voices for democracy. Join Extend’s program on the ground today in Israel-Palestine.
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The West Bank: Occupation 101
Palestinians in the West Bank live under Israeli military law, without the right to vote or protest, due process or freedom of movement. Extend programs highlight Palestinians and Israelis across civil society, academia, the arts, business, and diplomacy working to end the occupation and advocate for human rights. Our programs lend particular emphasis to leaders in the Palestinian movement for transformative nonviolent civil disobedience, including internationally recognized activists such as Iyad Burnat (5 Broken Cameras) and Issa Amro (UN Human Rights Defender of the Year).
Palestinian Citizens of Israel
More than one in five Israeli citizens are Palestinian. Often referred to as ‘Israeli Arabs,’ Palestinian citizens of Israel have reshaped Israel’s political and cultural landscape through a decades-long struggle for communal self-determination and civil rights. Extend programs include in-depth conversation with Palestinian citizens of Israel in politics, activism, media, and the arts about both political challenges and cultural identity.
Jerusalem: West & East
Jerusalem is a city at once shared and divided, with two-thirds of its population Jewish-Israeli and one-third Palestinian. Extend programs introduce participants to history, culture, and politics in both Jewish West Jerusalem and Palestinian East Jerusalem. Programs put significant focus on the legal inequities between the two communities. Palestinians in Jerusalem are permanent residents of Israel, but not citizens. Extend programs highlight inequities in housing, education, policing, and civil rights that follow from these different legal statuses. Our programs also focus on a shared vision for the city’s future.
Israeli Civil Society
Extend programs include conversations with Israeli academics, journalists, politicians, and artists. Our partnerships emphasize initiatives to strengthen democratic norms and civil rights within Israel and to end the occupation of the Palestinian territories. Extend participants will meet leaders from organizations such as Breaking the Silence, B’Tselem, Peace Now, Standing Together, Rabbis for Human Rights, Haaretz, and +972.
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About Extend
Since 2013, Extend’s on-the-ground learning programs have connected American Jews with Israeli and Palestinian leaders fighting for democracy and human rights. Our expertise is in engaging American Jewish audiences with the nuanced, challenging conversations about the Israeli and Palestinian past, present, and future. Extend’s programs bring participants to communities across Israel-Palestine, including Haifa, Jaffa, the Gaza border, Hebron, the South Hebron Hills, Bethlehem, Ramallah, and Jerusalem. Extend has facilitated programs for rabbis in the Union for Reform Judaism, Hillel staff, private foundations, Hebrew Union College, BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social Change, students from the Jewish Theological Seminary, Young Judaea Year Course, Pardes, the Conservative Yeshiva, Nativ, The Secular Yeshiva, Migdal HaTorah, the Hartman Institute, and the Dorot Fellowship, as well as yeshiva students from Modern Orthodox institutions such as Yeshivat Orayta, Yeshivat Ma’alei Gilboa, Midreshet Lindenbaum, and Nishmat. Extend also offers private family programs. Extend alumni have gone on to advocacy with J Street, the New Israel Fund, If Not Now, and Jewish Voice for Peace, as well as advocacy through the arts, journalism, Jewish communal life, on Capitol Hill and at the State Department.
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