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 Jerusalem to Hebron, Extend’s educational programs equip you with the knowledge, relationships, and moral urgency to join the movement for democracy and human rights. Extend has been featured in the New York Times, on MSNBC and CNN, and at the United Nations, and called “the most thought-provoking days of my year.” Our community of 1200+ alumni include elected officials, journalists, rabbis, orthodox yeshiva students, and artists raising their voices for human rights and democracy. Join Extend’s program on the ground today in Israel-Palestine.
Extend also works with universities, cultural institutions, elected officials, and communal leaders to speak with moral integrity about Israel-Palestine in an unforgiving media landscape.
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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. 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
Two-thirds of Jerusalem’s population are Jewish Israeli citizens, while one-third are Palestinian permanent residents. Extend focuses on the legal inequalities between these two communities, highlighting inequities in housing, education, policing, and civil rights that follow from these different legal statuses.
Israeli Civil Society
Extend works closely with Israeli activists, academics, journalists, and politicians who oppose the occupation and advocate for civil rights within Israel and an end the occupation of the Palestinian territories. Partners include Breaking the Silence, B’Tselem, Peace Now, Standing Together, Rabbis for Human Rights, Haaretz, and +972.
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About Extend
Extend offers strategic learning programs to elected officials, journalists, opinion makers, and communal leaders. We work with all those who seek to join the movement for democracy and human rights in Israel-Palestine. Extend’s programs bring participants to communities across Israel-Palestine, including Jerusalem, Haifa, Jaffa, the Gaza border, Hebron, the South Hebron Hills, Bethlehem, and Ramallah.
We have worked extensively within the American Jewish community. Our expertise is in engaging American Jewish audiences with the nuanced, challenging conversations about the human rights realities in Israel-Palestine. Extend has facilitated programs for leading 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 advises universities, cultural institutions, elected officials, and communal leaders on how to speak with moral clarity about Israel-Palestine in an unforgiving media landscape.
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