Please support our education, advocacy and solidarity work at Canadian Friends of Sabeel in this critical time of Sumud… and survival.

Stay tuned for our year end video montage from Palestine.

“The Palestinian people have lived Sumud for a century, rejecting their dehumanization and erasure, protecting their identity and narrative, and struggling for freedom from Israel’s colonial enterprise while thriving and contributing to humanity in all fields.”

Herod, occupier of the Roman Empire, lived with enough fear that even children posed a threat. As part of our solidarity pilgrimage we stood on a hill in Sderot, Israel, at a USA-funded  ‘look out’ with a view to the northern Gaza border (see photos). Smoke was visible. It rose and drifted. 

This Giving Tuesday you can read words directly from our friends and partners in Palestine, Rev. Dr. Naim Ateek and Mira Rizek at the World YWCA.

Inspired by the Sumud of our Palestinian siblings, we are encouraged by significant breakthroughs in solidarity and advocacy this past year.Even though the violence has not ended, we live in hope that what can happen on this scale can grow and eventually bring us to a ceasefire and a just  peace. We want to share with you our list of what we call “The Transformation Revolution”.

Palestinians speak about Sumud as the spirit of steadfastness and perseverance that enables them to continue to exist and to resist the realities of occupation, oppression -- and now genocide.