Support

1. Purchase Palestinian products
   • AET Bookclub and Palestinian Arts and Crafts Trust
     www.middleeastbooks.com/
     
   • Holy Land Handicraft Cooperative Society
     www.holyland-handicraft.org/
     
   • Pal Craftaid, Inc.
     www.palcraftaid.org/index.htm
   • Sindyanna of Galilee Fair Trade
     www.sindyanna.com/8190/
     
   • Zatoun products
     http://zatoun.com/zatoun_products.htm
     
     
2. Invest time, talent and/or money with organizations that advocate for and inform about Israeli/Palestinian issues to influence decision-makers who set U.S. foreign policy
   • American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
     www.adcchicago.com
   • Americans for Peace Now
     www.peacenow.org/chicago/
   • American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem
     www.afedj.org
   • American Friends Service Committee, Middle East Program
     Contact Miryam Rashid 312-427-2533
   • Arab Jewish Partnership for Peace and Justice in the Middle East
     www.arabjewishpartnership.org/
   • Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine
     www.cjpip.org
   • Hands of Peace
     www.hands-of-peace.org
     
   • Jewish Voice for Peace
     www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org
     
   • Metropolitan Chicago Synod ELCA
     Working Group on the Middle East
     www.mcselca.org/WGME/index.html
   • Northern Illinois Conference of the United Methodist Church
     Rev. Christopher Pierson
     www.umcnic.org/index.php
   • Presbytery of Chicago
     Middle East Task Force
     www.chicagopresbytery.org/advance-justice/middle-east-task-force/
     
     
3. Start discussion or education groups that focus on Israeli/Palestinian issues
   You can invite a few people to meet for light refreshments and to view and discuss a DVD, an online video or some informal comments from a knowledge speaker. You can have a one-time or a multi-session educational program that uses curriculum materials or invited speakers. Speakers are also available from Interfaith Peace-Builders delegations (www.ifpb.org) and many Christian denominations have speakers available who have visited Israel/Palestine and/or who have particular knowledge and experience with Israeli/Palestinian issues.