Community
Towards Our Liberation was woven together with the wisdom, reflections, and experiences of Palestinians and their allies. Over 30 Palestinian activists and groups, and allies contributed to its co-creation. The process was rooted in the power of documenting moments, spaces, memories, dreams, and strategies of liberation to serve as a tool of resistance, survival, and hope. It is crucial to recognise the brutal pain and violence that Palestinians have endured for decades. Many of the contributors to this effort have had their family and friends killed, their homes and communities bombed, and the Israeli state has turned them into refugees.
Palestinian contributors, including groups,
organisations, and individuals
Asma’ Mustafa
Daniela Massou
Emilia Massou
Fayrouz Sharqawi
Hala Shrouf
Hana’a Abdel Nabi
Janna Jihad
Laila R. Makled
Nadim Jad
Nama’a Qudah
Raya Sharbain
Rand Dabboor
Rima Abu Rahma
Ruba Assi
Sandie Hanna
Sandra Tamari
Soheir Asaad
Thraya Abu Zehri
Zainab Al-Ghonaimy
Adalah Justice Project: A Palestinian-led advocacy organisation based in the US that builds cross-movement coalitions to achieve collective liberation. Our work is rooted in the conviction that drawing the linkages between US policy abroad and repressive state practices at home is crucial to shifting the balance of power.
Al Domari Society: Provides vocational training to raise awareness and generate opportunities for women and girls in Shu’fat. They focus on providing vocational education, particularly for those who haven't completed their primary or higher education.
Al Manar Society: A women and advocates for women’s rights organisation forming specialised groups and task forces that operate in various fields, including child protection, women's empowerment, psychological and social support, awareness and education, and facilitating women's access to education, among others.
Amal Al-Mustaqbal/The Hope of Tomorrow in Gaza: Engages young women through theatre and performance to emphasise the importance of reflecting on their realities and the circumstances around them that impact how they build bridges and enjoy their rights and freedoms.
Baladna Arab Youth Association: Baladna was founded by a group of young Palestinians committed to advancing the social, political, cultural, and economic rights of the Arab Palestinian youth in the occupied territories of 1948. It is a non-profit organisation dedicated to empowering youth to overcome discrimination and marginalisation while advancing their individual and collective rights.
Decolonize Palestine: a collection of resources for organisers and anyone who wants to learn more about Palestine developed by two Palestinians.
Gaza Boxing Women: As the very first women's boxing club in the Gaza Strip, it is dedicated to empowering young girls and women across Gaza through boxing.
Gaza English Coffee: Creates spaces for girls to learn English and to strengthen their confidence.
Inad Theatre in Bethlehem: A girl-led group emerged to create safe spaces for girls, especially girls with disabilities, and offer them platforms to raise their voices and lead peer-learning efforts.
Sehtek B Dehktek (Your Well-Being in Your Laughter): A feminist collective of young women aged 22 to 30 in the Gaza Strip that addresses mental health among women and girls, particularly in the city of Rafah in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
Psychology Spa: The first specialised non-profit company in Psychoeducation in Palestine since 2016. Psychology spa is a place where groups meet to learn, discuss, share, and seek ways to gain psychological knowledge.
SHAMS Dance Company: A Palestinian community organisation that seeks to create inspirational art. The group runs yoga, dance and body movement classes for women, adolescents, and children; produces dance shows; and coordinates community projects in the West Bank.
Siper Women: A feminist collective in the Rafah Governorate in the Gaza Strip dedicated to strengthening young women’s awareness of digital advocacy and supporting them to navigate online platforms for self-expression safely.
Tajwal Artistic Group in Gaza: Provides therapeutic sessions for young women to share their personal stories, engage in community, offer reciprocal support and compassion, and retell their stories through theatrical performances.
Tawjeeh Center for Democracy: Committed to promoting and upholding social justice and peace through human rights education and advocacy.
Rawa Fund: A Palestinian initiative working to strengthen an emancipatory, resilient Palestinian social ecosystem capable of resisting the Israeli colonial regime. Rawa supports generative spaces for Palestinian grassroots initiatives to envision and bring forth this vision, including through participatory grantmaking across historic Palestine. Rawa promotes solidarity and support of Palestinian self-determination and independence from donor conditions through trust-based partnerships and awareness of (and accountability for) historical harms of funding.
Contributors from across the world
Ayat Mneina
Colleen Jankovic
Dr. Nadine Naber
Dr. Nimmi Gowrinathan
Dr. Ramatu Bangura
Dr. Tana Forrest
Jody Myrum
Laura Vergara
Priyanka Samy
Rebecca Vilkomerson
Rosa Bransky
Ruby Johnson
Senda Ben Jebara
Stephen Tierney
Adi Magazine: A new US-based literary journal rehumanizing policy. Through narrative journalism, experimental essays, fiction, poetry, commentary, and art, Adi celebrates the conversations often marginalised from mainstream Western debates on policy, creating a space for nuanced exploration and insisting that policy reflects lived experiences.
Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice: A public foundation rooted in LGBTQI+ communities and movements. Astraea raises and distributes funds to programs and initiatives led by and for diverse constituencies, prioritising groups led by lesbians and queer women, trans and gender non-conforming people, intersex people, and people of colour.
Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID): A global, feminist, membership, movement-support organisation. AWID envisions a world where feminist realities flourish, where resources and power are shared in ways that enable everyone, and future generations, to thrive and realise their full potential with dignity, love and respect, and where Earth nurtures life in all its diversity.
Our Collective Practice: A feminist hub serving as a catalyst for learning, experimentation, and collaboration. We works to advance the safety, dignity, and freedom of girls by building knowledge, narrative, and collective power.
Doria Feminist Fund: A feminist fund seeking to create a feminist ecosystem where the new generation of feminist movement in the MENA region has access to more and better funding and resources which enables the development and sustainability of its activism to advance the rights, wellbeing and security of all women & LGBTQ+ individuals and groups.
FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund: A young feminist fund providing young feminist organisers with the resources they need to amplify their voices and bring attention to the social justice issues they care about. We enable the support, flexibility and networks to sustain young feminist visions.
Funding Freedom: An organisation building solidarity and support for Palestinian freedom through education, advocacy, communications in philanthropy, with a focus on individual donors, donor networks, and family foundations.
Global Fund for Women: A feminist fund offering flexible feminist funding and support to fuel collective action and create meaningful change that will last beyond our lifetimes. Global Fund for Women envisions a world where movements for gender justice have transformed power and privilege for a few into equity and equality for all.
Global Resilience Fund: A collaborative feminist fund working with and for girls and young feminists impacted by and responding to crises. The Fund brings together a diverse set of funders and activists from across the social justice ecosystem, including womens funds and feminist funders, UN agencies, public, private and family foundations, and NGOs.
Grassroots International: A global grantmaking and movement support organisation. We accompany, fund, and work in solidarity with movements, predominantly in the Global South and the US, on the frontlines of change. Grassroots International has a 40-year history of funding movements in Palestine. For donors, Grassroots International has regular delegations to Palestine, and has a Philanthropy and the Palestinian Freedom Movement Donor Engagement Group practicum that is a model in the field.
INCITE! Palestine Force: A global taskforce comprised of former co-leaders of INCITE!’s antiwar task force and Palestine solidarity work.
Jewish Voices for Peace: As the largest progressive Jewish anti-Zionist organisation in the world, Jewish Voices for Peace organises a grassroots, multiracial, cross-class, intergenerational movement of the US Jews into solidarity with the Palestinian freedom struggle, guided by a vision of justice, equality, and dignity for all people.
Purposeful: An Africa-rooted global hub for girls’ organising and activism. We believe that another world is not only possible, it is already being built right here and now, in the ways that girls are organising with each other, imagining with each other, pushing us all a little further towards liberation.
Regional Coalition of WHRDs in the Middle East and North Africa: A coalition of defenders in the Middle East and North Africa Region which aims at consolidating ways to protect the defenders in the public sector, shedding light on the violations against them, as well as offer support systems through advocacy, sharing experiences, knowledge, activities, and the production of knowledge and positive arrangements to challenge the culture of patriarchy and the hegemonic masculinity and discrimination against women in the different societies, as well as provide safe spaces to do that.
Young Feminist Solidarity with Palestine: A global coalition of young feminist activists from across the world committed toward the liberation of Palestine and all oppressed people.