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Mohammed Ali Amla, Youth & Partnerships Director at SNS, offers an introduction to our work, and we hear from three of our speakers about what the city of Jerusalem means to them, and their respective religious and personal identities. This article originally appeared in the RE Today Magazine.
[Note: Subaiah was kind enough to share her feelings about being an Ambassador for her school's Olive Branch Award. Solutions Not Sides is running a matched fundraising campaign so that 10 other schools can join Subaiah's next academic year. Every donation is doubled during the week 10th-17th April - so for everyone £1 you donate, we receive £2! You can find out more and donate at this link.]
By Saed, a Palestinian SNS speaker from the West Bank
[Editors note: This is the first in a new series from Palestinians and Israelis looking at contemporary culture, film, TV, music and more.]
In Israel we are currently watching the dramatic fallout of the election of the most extreme right-wing government in its history. Meanwhile, in Palestine, elections have not taken place for nearly two decades, with an extremist government in Gaza and an authoritarian regime in the West Bank.