FFIPP Internship for Human Rights and Just Peace in Palestine/Israel
2012 Interns in Bili'n
"To teach is not to transfer knowledge but to create the possibilities for the construction of knowledge" Paulo Freire
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Nelson Mandela
"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically... Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"I put my hope in the youth, whose resiliency and capacity for growth seems unending. Investing in them now is our best chance for salvation"
Harry Belafonte
New: FFIPP/GCMHP Gaza Internship 2013
FFIPP in cooperation with the Gaza Community Mental Health Program, GCMHP ,are now accepting applications of students and faculty interested in doing Internship in Gaza.
The minimum duration of an internship is two months, but longer terms are preferred. Priority will be for applicants who have experience/knowledge of Project Management, Fundraising, and Psychology.
All cost in Gaza during the internship, as well as pocket-money will be covered.
Please send a letter describing your interest to apply for this internship, and a copy of your CV, send it with a $50 ,non-refundable , application fee to FFIPP-USA, P.O.Box 2091, Amherst MA 01004. You can also email your letter of application to info@ffipp.org or fax it to 413-586-9647 (c/o Kris). You can use the donate button at the FFIPP website to pay the application fee.
Summer 2013 Internship for Human Rights and Just Peace in Palestine/Israel
Dates: June 2 - July 7, 2013
For college and university students worldwide.
Intensive, on the ground, eye opening learning experience about the conflict in Palestine/Israel and the struggle for Human Rights Justice, and Peace.
FFIPP educational activities are rooted in a universal human ethic and the belief that students can learn best about Palestine/Israel from their own experiences of living and doing volunteer work in grassroots organizations, human rights and research centers in Palestine/Israel.
The program includes a week-long orientation course and one month of volunteer work in Palestinian and Israeli grassroots organizations, research centers, universities, and human rights organizations.
The Orientation course introduces students to the following topics: Pre 1917 Palestine, Palestine under British Mandate, Zionism, the Holocaust, the Nakba, Refugees, 1967 Occupation, Palesinian national movement, Palestinian community inside Israel, Jerusalem, the economy of the occupier and the occupied and grassroots activisim for human rights, justice and peace in Palestine/Israel.
Past Orientation courses included visits to Jaffa, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Bilin, Ramallah, Tel-Aviv, Kafr Bir'im (destroyed 1948 village), Kibbutz Lohamei HaGetaot, al-Ghabisiyya (destroyed 1948 village), Nazareth, Beit Omar, Um el Faham, Dheisheh refugee camp, Hebron, Suba (destroyed 1948 village) Jericho and settlements around Jerusalem.
The program is open to all university students anywhere in the world. Students in all majors are welcome to apply.
In the past interns worked in: Enfants, Jeux ET Education, Jalazon refugee camp, Ramallah, Bethlehem, and Arub refugee camp; The Alternative Information Center, Jerusalem and Bethlehem; The Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem (ARIJ), Bethlehem; Tent of nation, Nahalin; UNESCO Chair of Human Rights in An Najah University, Nablus; Project Hope, Nablus; St Yves Human Rights Center, Jerusalem; The civic Coalition to Defend Palestinian Rights, Jerusalem; Hebrew University Minerva Human Rights center, Jerusalem; Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), Jerusalem; Palestinian Israeli Journal, Jerusalem; Arab Center For Agricultural Development, Ramallah; Al Quds University Human Rights Center, Jerusalem; Asala, the Palestinian Businesswomen's Association, Ramallah; Palestinian Farmers Union, Ramallah; The Palestine Working Women Society for Development, Ramallah; Safeer newspaper, Ramallah; Young Artist Forum, Ramallah; Kayan Feminist Organization, Haifa; Ibdaa Center, Dheisheh refugee camp; The Palestinian Initiative for the promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH), Ramallah; The Center for Humanistic Education, The Ghetto Fighters' House, Kibbutz Lohamei HaGetaot; Kav LaOved, an independent non-governmental organization committed to the defense of workers rights, Tel-Aviv; Freedom Theatre, Jenin; Defense for Children International, Hebron; Workers Union, Hebron; Rabbis for Human Rights, Jerusalem; Alternative Archaeology, Jerusalem.
Summer 2010 FFIPP Interns in Jerusalem
Application process
For North American and International university/college students
. Students from the EU should apply via FFIPP-Europe.
1) Apply by downloading an Application and send it with a $50 application fee to ffipp-usa, P.O.Box 2091, Amherst MA 01004. You can also email your application or FAX it to 413-586-9647 (c/o Kris). You can use the donate button at the FFIPP website to pay the application fee. Also Sign and send or fax the Waver and Internship Agreement.
Your application will not be processed without the application fee.
2) Each applicant must forward a recommendation form to the three references (at least two must be faculty) along with a stamped envelope addressed to FFIPP-USA. The letters may also be sent directly by email to info@ffipp.org or by FAX to 413-586-9647 (c/o Kris).
FFIPP will not be able to accept an applicant without receiving three letters of recommendation.
Deadline to Apply: May 1, 2013
Cost: FFIPP-USA tuition, fees and housing is $1500. Airfare, food and living expenses are NOT covered by FFIPP.
Recommended Books:
Memory Fields, Shlomo Breznitz
My Father was a Freedom Fighter, Ramzy Baroud
In Search of Fatima, Ghada Karami
The Pessoptimist, Emile Habiby
Brochure Summer 13
For more information email us at info@ffipp.org or call us at 413-992-7355
Summer 2012 Internship for Human Rights and Just Peace in Palestine/Israel
Summer 2012 Internship for Human Rights and Just Peace in Palestine/Israel
Dates: June 15 - July 20, 2012
Twenty-seven interns participated in the FFIPP summer 2012 Internship program. They came from France, Poland, Germany, UK, USA, Canada, Netherlands, and Switzerland and from the following universities: University of Fribourg, Sciences Po - Grenoble, Sciences Po - Bordeaux, University of Geneva, UPMF Grenoble / Condé Lyon, Sciences Po - Paris, Amsterdam University College, Aalborg University (Copenhagen), College London (UCL, London, Utrecht University, Carleton University, Ottawa Canada, New York University, University of San Francisco, Carleton College, Middlebury college, Texas A&M University and Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.
2012 interns in Deheshe refugees camp
During the Orientation Week the interns met with the following organizations and individuals:
* Ronnie from the Anarchists Against the Wall ( http://www.awalls.org/) and Boycott from Within (http://boycottisrael.info/).
* The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel,(http://www.stoptorture.org.il/en/)
* Sahar from Schiministin – High School Students who refused the military service (http://www.whywerefuse.org)
* Yad Vashem (http://www.yadvashem.org/)
* Aida and Deheishe Refugee camps
* Students from Birzeit University
* Shawan Jabarin of Al Haq, Ramallah (http://www.alhaq.org/)
* Al Qawas, a Palestinian LGBTQ organization, Ramallah
* Asala Palestinian micro credit organization for women, Ramallah (http://www.asala-pal.com/node/144)
* Baladna, a Palestinian Israeli youth organization, Haifa
* Orna Kohn of Adalah the legal center for Arab minority rights in Israel, Haifa (http://www.adalah.org/eng/)
* Zakaria Odeh from the Civic Coalition for Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem, (http://www.civiccoalition-jerusalem.org/)
* Tour of Greater Jerusalem with Mohammed Nablusi from the Israeli Committee Against House Demolition, (ICHAD) (http://www.icahd.org/)
* Tour of the Old City of Akka
* The settlement of Gush Etzion
* Professor Hillel Cohen, Hebrew University
* OCHA (United Nation Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Territories )
* Tent of Nations, Nahalin (http://www.tentofnations.org/)
* Zochrot (http://www.zochrot.org/en/)
* Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights in Bethlehem (http://www.badil.org/)
* Tour of South Hebron Hills with Breaking the Silence (http://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/)
* Ibrahim Shikaki, a Palestinian economist
* Ahmad Al Farra, a Palestinian Businessman
* A tour to the Old City of Hebron and a presentation with the Temporary International Presence in the City of Hebron, TIPH
(http://www.tiph.org/)
* Omar Barghouti the founder of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, PACBI an Boycotts, Divestments and Sanctions of the state of Israel (BDS) (http://www.bdsmovement.net/)
* The Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine and Israel, EAPPI , in Jayyous, the Occupied West Bank. (http://www.eappi.org/)
During the internship period, the interns visited and met with:
* Bili'n (http://www.bilin-village.org/english/)
* Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh of Bethlehem University
* The Pontifical Biblical Institute in Jerusalem with Father Bowen, Rabbi Yehiel Grenimann from Rabbis for Human Rights and Professor Abu-Sway of Al Quds University to discuss the role the three monotheistic religions in the conflict
2012 interns in the village of Bili'n
The interns worked in the following organizations:
In Jerusalem: The Alternative Information Center, Civic Coalition, Palestine-Israel Journal, and the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD).
In Haifa: Baladna, The Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens in Israel (Musawa), and Aswat.
In Ramallah: Al Safeer News, Palestinian Businesswomen's Association (Asala), Palestinian Hydrology Group (PHG), The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (Miftah),The Palestinian Working Woman Society (PWWSD), the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS), and Al Haq.
In Nablus: Project Hope.
In Bethlehem: The Alternative Information Center, and the Alternative Tourism Group (ATG).
*The FFIPP community mourns the death of Alexandra Dodger, summer 2008 intern, as a result of a car accident in Ottawa, Canada on October 13, 2011.
Alexandra was a passionate activist for justice and peace, who recently graduated from law school at McGill University and has started working at Amnesty International. Her untimely death is a great loss for all of us.
We send our condolences and respect to her family and friends.
Alexandra Dodger 1984-2011
Article in the Ottawa Citizen
Dan Harris Rises in the Canadian House of Commons to Honour the Memory of Alexandra Dodger
Summer 2011 Internship for Human Rights and Just Peace in Palestine/Israel
Dates: June 24 - July 30
This summer the FFIPP Internship for Human Rights and Just Peace in Palestine/Israel had a group of 36 students from Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Belgium, France, England, Canada and the United States. They came from the following universities: Fordham University, University of San Francisco, Smith College, Mt Holyoke College, Carleton College, University of Ottawa, CUNY Queens College, University of Denver, Marquette University, University of Connecticut, BPP Law School, London, University of Geneva, University of Fribourg, Amsterdam University College, Université Pierre MENDES France, Université Stendhal, University of Sciences Po Bordeaux, Sciences Po Grenoble, Sciences-Po Paris.
This was one of the most successful internship program FFIPP conducted in the past 6 summers. This year success is due to the fantastic work that was done and the great dedication of the entire internship leadership team as well as the fantastic group of interns we had this summer. The internship leadership team, including the Internship director, Orientation Week director, and the on the ground coordinators are all past interns from Europe and the US.
Another factor that contributed to the success of this summer program was the pre departure workshops held in New York, Paris, London, and Berkeley, conducted by FFIPP leaders who are past interns.
FFIPP 2011 Interns in Nabi Salah
Orientation Week
During the Orientation Week the interns had the following meetings, and tours.
. Tour around Jerusalem with Jeff Halper, Israeli Committee Against House Demolition, ICHAD.
. Old City Tour with the Palestinian African Committee.
. Solidariyut. Israeli grassroots organization of activists protesting the evictions of Palestinian from their homes in East Jerusalem by the Israeli Police and the take- over of their homes by Jewish institutions and individuals.
. Shiministin, Jewish Israeli High School students who refused to serve in the Israeli Army
. Anarchists against the Wall. An Israeli organization partners in the weekly demonstrations in Palestinian villages in the Occupied West Bank over confiscation of land and the building of walls, fences and roads on their land.
. Civic Coalition, a Palestinian human rights organization in occupied East Jerusalem.
. Akka/Acco Tour. An historic city on the Mediterranean Sea north of Haifa.
. Visit to the remains of the village of Al Birwe . A Palestinian village destroyed in 1948, whose population became refugees and whose land was taken for the establishment of a Jewish Israeli Kibbutz and a village. Al Birwe is the birth place of the poet Mahmoud Darwish.
Visit to Al Birwe
. Al Musawa meeting. Al Musawa is Palestinian Human Rights organization in Haïfa, Israel.
. Al Quds University meeting in occupied East Jerusalem.
. Gush Etzion settlement block, meeting with a settler.
. Breaking the Silence tour of Hebron. Breaking the Silence is an organization of veteran combatants who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the Second Intifada and have taken it upon themselves to expose the Israeli public to the reality of everyday life in the Occupied Territories.
. A Tour of Hebron and a presentation by Temporary International Presence in the city of Hebron, TIPH.
. Visit to Beit Omar. A Palestinian village on the main road from Jerusalem to Hebron, next to the Gush Etzion Settlements Block.
. Tent of Nations. A Palestinian farm surrounded by Israeli settlements near Bethlehem.
. Tour of Dheisheh refugee camp, next to Bethlehem. The camp was set up in 1948 for Palestinian refugees, mainly farmers from villages around Jerusalem.
. Meeting in Ibdaa, a community center in Dheisheh refugee camp.
. A visit to the village of Nabi Salih. Nabi Salih is a small Palestinian village of over 530 near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. Nabi Saleh, hosts weekly anti-wall rallies together with Israelis and internationals to protest Israel's confiscation of village land. The IDF has been responding aggressively to these non-violent demonstrations including shooting and arresting villagers.
. Asala meeting in Ramallah. . Asala is The Palestinian Business Women's Association.
. PHG meeting in Ramallah. The Palestinian Hydrology Group, PHG, is a Palestinian NGO working to improve access to water and sanitation services, and to monitor pollution and climate change in the occupied Palestinian territory.
. Palestinian Economic Research Institute meeting, Ramallah.
. Al Qaws meeting. Al Quas is a LGBTQ Palestinian organization in occupied East Jerusalem.
. Hebrew University meeting, Jerusalem.
. A presentation at the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA, in occupied East Jerusalem.
. Visit of Yad Vashem, The Israeli Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem.
. Disobedient women meeting, Ein Kerem, Jerusalem. The “disobedient women” are Israeli women who illegally bring Palestinian women and children from the occupied West bank, less than 10 miles away, for a day out in Tel-Aviv and visit the beach for the first time in their lives.
Meeting with Ofra Lyth from the Disobedient Women in Ein Kerem, Jerusalem
Internship Partners in Palestine/Israel
The interns worked for one month as volunteers in the following organizations:
. UNESCO Chair of Human Rights, Al Najah University, Nablus
. Project Hope, Nablus. Project Hope is the largest volunteer organization of its kind in Palestine, bringing together Palestinians and internationals to deliver essential educational programs to children and youth in refugee camps, towns and villages.
. Asala, Ramallah
. Hebron Rehabilitation Committee, Hebron
. PHG, Ramallah
. Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies, Ramallah
. Palestine Economic Research Center, Ramallah
. Al Safeer Newspaper Ramallah
. Aletrnative Information Center, Jerusalem and Bethelem
. St Yves society for Human Rights, Old City Jerusalem
. Palestine Israel Journal, Jerusalem
. Israeli Committee Against House Demolition, ICHAD, Jerusalem
. Rabbis for Human Rights, Jerusalem
. Civic Coalition, East Jerusalem
. Breaking the Silence office in Jerusalem.
. Acre Women, Akka/Acco, Israel
. Laz theater, Akka/Acco, Israel
. Al Aswar, publishing house from Akka/Acco, Israel.
. Beit Omar, occupied Wes Bank
. Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem, ARIJ, Bethlehem,
. Ibdaa community center, Dheisheh Refugees Camp
. Al Qawas, a Palestinian LGBTQ organization East Jerusalem and Ramallah
. Parents Circle - Families Forum (PCFF) is a grassroots organization of bereaved Palestinians and Israelis. The PCFF promotes reconciliation as an alternative to hatred and revenge, Jerusalem and Bethlehem.