I’ve been so inspired by the resilience of our staff and activists. In Ramallah earlier today, Ibrahim, our Director of Leadership Outreach, mentioned a lot of the activists (we have a network of 1,800 youth leaders across Palestine) were complaining why we were not being more assertive with the campaign by fringe groups trying to [...]
Earlier this morning I was really down. Then I got up and realized how lucky I am, and how much so many people are suffering on both sides. And I realized that OneVoice has never been stronger. And I realized that the more extremists attack our Israeli and Palestinian offices, the more they gain supporters [...]
It was a very tough decision canceling the Israeli side of the event, when tens of thousands had already signed up to come – and I can only wonder if they won’t understand our decision and be disappointed, which pains me. Primarily the people that I don’t have daily contact with and don’t know. Primarily [...]
To the 600,000 Israeli, Palestinian and international citizens who affirmed our principles, To the tens of thousands who committed to join us on October 18th, To the grassroots volunteers and recruiters that invested themselves for months in the heat of the summer signing up people on the streets to sign the OneVoice Mandate and join [...]
When the "Boycott" campaign against OVP started in earnest a few weeks ago, one of my staff members suggested we just explain to them the OV platform, and provide detailed answers to the many false accusations and mischaracterizations they were making. I explained I had had discussions with several people from these groups in the [...]
Grass-roots peace concert in Israel called off in solidarity with Palestinians: organizer The Associated Press Sunday, October 14, 2007 JERUSALEM: A grass-roots peace concert calling for a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict was called off on Sunday after threats were made to Palestinians supporting the event. The New York-based One Voice organization had [...]
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3459785,00.html One Voice events postponed Series of performances for peace, scheduled to take place in Jericho and Tel Aviv, canceled due to security problems Or Barnea The Once Voice events scheduled to take place in Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park and the Jericho stadium on Thursday have been postponed until further notice due to security problems [...]
It’s official. It really works. Try to put together parallel OneVoice Summits in Jericho and Tel Aviv and within 10 days you will lose 10 pounds! For the last year+ I’ve actually gained about that much, because I wasn’t getting a chance to work out, and no matter what I did, it was just going [...]
Dear All, All of you have been targeted by a campaign based on hatred and a commitment to hide issues from the people. This is the truth: OneVoice does not seek to dictate final status negotiations, it does not have a political agenda. It is an organization whose work in building civil society can [...]
I just came upon a posting from "Another Voice" again slandering the good work of the OneVoice Movement. Among their allegations is that we invented the threats and intimidation that all Palestinian artists and staff were facing from these absolutists without any real plan other than to complain, attack and attack. Several Palestinian dignitaries on [...]