Journey for Justice

About the Journey for Justice (JFJ):

JFJ2013 t5Journey for Justice brings together youth leaders from all over the world to experience and share the life under occupation with Palestinian youth. For nine days, they join Palestinian youth and travel around occupied Palestine to witness the effects of Israeli occupation, and accompany Palestinian youth in their daily life.

Journey includes:

  • Stories / experiences / dreams and daily life sharing.
  • Visiting their universities and realize Palestinian students' difficulties.
  • Witnessing several EJ YMCA and YWCA of Palestine programs in action.
  • Meetings and discussions with Palestinians and Israelis: Political and religious leaders, Israeli right-based groups, grass root Palestinians including farmers, refugees, students...etc.
  • Presentations and discussions with specialists on issues of: children, refugees, academics, international work...etc.
  • Visiting various religious and historic sites including old cities of Hebron, Bethlehem, Nablus, Jerusalem, including the Church of Nativity, Holy Sepulcher, Al-Aqsa Mosque...etc.
  • Advocacy activities and workshop, building coalitions of committed youth leaders and set advocacy plans together.

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Participation

  • Participants ages should be between 17 and 25 (up to 30 could be allowed for special cases).
  • No limited number of participants from certain movement.
  • Be able to cover their international travel costs and participation fees.
  • Manage their own in-advance tourist VISA to Israel (required for certain nationalities), without JAI intervention.

Journey for Justice for youth organized successfully

Category: Journey for Justice
Created: 07 August 2022

The Journey for Justice, in Palestine, organized by the JAI for international and Palestinian youth, took place from the 30th of July to the 7th of August 2022. International youth came from Denmark, USA and Argentina.

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The Journey included guided tours where the participants witnessed the Israeli colonies (settlements), settlers' bypass roads, parts of the Israeli concrete and fence apartheid wall, helping farmers in the village of Wad Fukin, hike tours in Battir and Hussan villages, guided tour in Hebron old city and into the Shuhada street and Ibrahimi Mosque (Tombs of the Patriarchs), guided tours in Jerusalem old city, Al-Aqsa Mosque/Dome of the Rock and with the Israeli Committee Against House Demolition (ICAHD).

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It also included guided tours inside the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem, Environmental Education Center in Bethlehem, inside Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, in Ramallah and the shrine of late president Arafat, and a visit to Nabi Saleh village, where they met Tamimi family.

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They met and chatted with various Palestinian youth, including the program participants, at the Environmental Education Center, and at Lajee Center at Aida Refugee Camp. Various presentations were given to the participants, included the JAI and the Olive Tree Campaign, Kairos Palestine Initiative, the Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions (BDS) Campaign, the geopolitical situation in Hebron, the ongoing displacement and right of return at Badil Center.

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An advocacy session was organized at the end of the Journey, which discussed what most sessions or tours created impacts on them, and the actions, activities and campaign they would organize or participate in when they get back to their countries and communities.

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