“The trip lasts 10 days. The memories last a lifetime. Join more than 360,000 Jewish young people from 65 countries who have received the gift of a free trip to Israel.” The following is the headline for the website of Taglit-Birthright Israel- the biggest global organization planning “birthright trips”. “Birthright” is a free trip…
Tag: Palestine
Ecolojovem – «Os Verdes» reclaims: Palestine will be free! Peace it’s urgent!
We live today in a world threatened by insecurity and war. It is urgent to affirm the peace and the rights of the people to their independence, sovereignty and self-determination. In this context, the European Union has an obligation to fight for a Europe and a world of peace, cooperation and support. For more than…
Torn between two worlds
Ten Young Greens from Germany travelled to Israel in May. They met with people from both sides of a conflict. People who are yearning for peace. However, many of them remain sceptical towards each other. After all, it seems to be a long way until peace and equality for everyone will be established. When we…
A cultural bridge between West and East
Probably most of us do not agree with the situation in the Middle East and with what is happening there. The question is, What can the Young Greens do about it? It is understandable that we cannot compete with the top political demands, but I believe that our Federation, FYEG as a whole, could initiate…
Gender issues in Palestine
Since the early years of the previous century, the Palestinian people have been living under successive occupations resulting in fragmentation of the Palestinian society and a high level of suffering represented in the expulsion of hundreds of thousand of Palestinian refugees, lands confiscation and human rights violations. As all Arab-Palestinian people, Palestinian women were subjected…