Organizations

 

Local Organizations & Faith Communities

National Organizations

Global Organizations

  • Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is a British medical aid organization focused on Palestine. MAP is similar to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières, but MAP works exclusively within the Occupied Territories. 
  • Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF) provides specialty surgical care to children in the Occupied Territories. They have been especially busy treating the 3,400 children who suffered traumatic injuries during this summer’s Gaza offensive, of whom more than 1,000 are permanently disabled. Charity Navigator score: 99.33.
  • Oxfam International creates “lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and social injustice.” “Oxfam” is short for the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief, founded in 1947 in response to the crisis in then-British Mandate Palestine. Charity Navigator score: 90.29.
  • Save the Children provides healthcare, nutrition, education, and emergency relief to children around the world. Charity Navigator score: 95.05.
  • World Food Programme

Organizations & Faith Communities in Palestine & Israel

  • Al-Awada: The Right to Return Coalition, an organization committed to public education on the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and lands of origin, and to full restitution of all their confiscated and destroyed property in accordance with International Law and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
  • Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network
  • B’Tselem, The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
  • Breaking the Silence, “an organization of veteran soldiers who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the Second Intifada and have taken it upon themselves to expose the public to the reality of everyday life in the Occupied Territories.”
  • Combatants for Peace, a group of Palestinians and Israelis who have taken an active part in the cycle of violence and who now work together through non-violent means to promote peace. 
  • Community Peacemaker Teams (CPT) — Palestine, which bear witness to violence and oppression in the Occupied Territories. CPT teams escort children to school under threat of attack, live with families under threat of eviction, and document the daily oppression of military occupation.
  • Defense for Children International – Palestine, an independent, local Palestinian child rights organization dedicated to defending and promoting the rights of children living in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.
  • Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem
  • Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor
  • Extend Tours introduces participants to human rights leaders and grassroots organizers in Israel and Palestine. 
  • Gisha is an Israeli non-profit that works to protect Palestinians’ freedom of movement, especially for residents of Gaza. 
  • Hand in Hand: Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Israel is “building inclusion and equality between Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel through a growing network of bilingual, integrated schools and communities.”
  • Holy Land Trust, a non-profit Palestinian organization committed to fostering peace, justice and understanding in the Holy Land.
  • Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) is a nonprofit organization working for the rights and the well-being of children in the Middle East.
  • Musalaha Reconciliation Ministries, led by an executive board of Palestinian and Israeli community leaders, promotes, teaches, and facilitates “reconciliation and unity within our society and internationally.”
  • One Voice provides financial support and strategic counsel to grassroots partners in Israel and Palestine.
  • Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)
  • Parents Circle Families Forum (PCFF) is a joint Israeli-Palestinian organization of more than 600 families who have lost an immediate family member to the ongoing conflict. “PCFF has concluded that the process of reconciliation between nations is a prerequisite to achieving a sustainable peace. The organization thus utilizes all resources available in education, public meetings and the media, to spread these ideas.” 
  • Peace Now is “the largest and longest-standing Israeli movement advocating for peace through public pressure.”
  • Sabeel, Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center is a Christian liberation theology center based in Jerusalem. 
  • Tent of Nations an educational and ecological family farm in the West Bank dedicated to bringing together people of different faiths and cultures in the pursuit of understanding and peace. Learn more and make a donation to Tent of Nations through the Friends of Tent of Nations, North America. 
  • Wi’am Palestinian Conflict Transformation Center, an organization in Bethlehem teaching conflict resolution by combining the traditional Arab form of mediation, called Sulha, with Western models of conflict resolution. They work primarily with women and children, providing education on equality and human rights. 
  • Zochrot was founded by Israeli activists calling “for acknowledgement and responsibility for the crimes of 1948, support for the right of return and a commitment to building a just society for all in Palestine.” 

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