These are some of the partners we work with in order to make
Solidarity of Nations - Achvat Amim a reality 

​Al Bustan Women’s Center was founded by Ibtisam, a tireless educator and MA graduate who is working together with international volunteers to offer regular afternoon activities such as art and English classes for the girls in her Jahalin Bedouin community. Additional to opportunities for children and youth, Al Bustan Women’s Center has an Embroidery Project that creates meaningful employment opportunities for women in the community.

Beit Safafa Community Center serves children, youth, adults, youth at risk, and senior citizens of Beit Safafa and Shrafat. Achvat Amim participants work in the center’s after-school English critical education program, teaching English through facilitating activities and workshops about self-expression, critical thinking, and creative expression with elementary school, middle school, and youth age groups.

Breaking the Silence is an organisation 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 Israeli public to the reality of everyday life in the Occupied Territories. Breaking the Silence endeavours to stimulate public debate about the price paid for a reality in which young soldiers face a civilian population on a daily basis, and are engaged in the control of that population’s everyday life. ​

Combatants for Peace was formed in 2006 by Israeli and Palestinian former combatants and people who had taken an active role in the conflict. The egalitarian, bi-national, grassroots organization was founded on the belief that the cycle of violence can only be broken when Israelis and Palestinians join forces. Committed to joint nonviolence since its foundation, Combatants for Peace works to both transform and resolve the conflict by ending Israeli occupation and all forms of violence between the two sides and building a peaceful future for both peoples.

Hashomer Hatzair movement (The Young Guard) has been active throughout the world for 100 years. As a Socialist-Zionist movement, members have been central in building the Kibbutz movement in Israel. Hashomer Hatzair is a leader  in participatory and democratic education. The movement is rooted in the ideals of youth-led organizing and activism toward equity, peace and justice in Israel, Jewish communities and the world.

Hand in Hand: Center for Jewish-Arab Education works to create a strong, inclusive, shared society in Israel through a network of integrated, bilingual schools and organized communities. Beginning with two schools in 1998, Hand in Hand has grown to operate schools and communities in six locations with 1950 Jewish and Arab students and more than 3,000 community members throughout Israel. Jews and Arabs - learning together, living together - and building social inclusion and civic equality in Israel.

Ir Amim (“City of Nations” or “City of Peoples”) focuses on Jerusalem within the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Ir Amim aspires to a sustainable political future for Jerusalem as the shared capital of two sovereign states - achievable only through a negotiated Israeli-Palestinian peace process - through monitoring, reporting, public and legal advocacy, public education and outreach. Ir Amim envisions a city that ensures the dignity and welfare of all its residents and safeguards their holy places, historical and cultural heritages – today, as well as in the future.

Midreshet Dror is a joint project of Achvat Amim, Breaking the Silence, and Combatants for Peace. It provides an intensive and immersive learning and action framework for Israeli young adults, who live together for 5 weeks and engage with the questions of peace, conflict, occupation, and human rights. Midreshet Dror works to strengthen the joint struggle for an end to the occupation through shared resistance work and developing a generation of Israelis who are committed to the human rights of Palestinians living under occupation. ​

Military Court Watch was established in 2013 and is guided by two basic principles. First, all children detained by the Israeli military authorities are entitled to all the rights and protections guaranteed under international law. Secondly, there can be no legal justification for treating Palestinian and Israeli children differently under Israel’s military and civilian legal systems. In pursuit of these principles, Military Court Watch monitors, litigates, advocates and educates in the region and beyond. ​

Storytelling South Hebron Hills is a project that works with community members in the South Hebron Hills to develop their narrative and storytelling skills in English. It was founded by a Jerusalem based partner with the help of three Achvat Amim participants in 2018. The project works with a diverse group of men and women, ranging from age 12 to 45, with all levels of English. ​

Tent of Nations is an organic farm, located in the hills southwest of Bethlehem. The Nasser family has been fighting a legal battle to keep hold of the land since it was classified as ‘Israeli State Land’ and thus threatened with confiscation in 1991. The struggle is ongoing. However, with a commitment to peaceful resistance and through the solidarity of those who have visited the land, much has been achieved. Through volunteer opportunities, children’s summer camps, and the Women’s Empowerment Project- Tent of Nations continues to work to protect and develop the farm as a place where people can come, work the land, mix their hands with its soil, respect it and learn the true belonging to it. Then go and tell it's story and inspire other people.

This is Not an Ulpan actively and critically engages with the realities on the ground in Hebrew and Arabic. Critical education doesn’t accept things as they are. This is Not an Ulpan questions the reality around us and builds an understanding of the alternatives that are out there. The goal is to acquire the tools necessary to understand, through language and other means, and engage with our surroundings and positively impact society. Language is a priority, but not the only one.

Torat Tzedek (“Torah of Justice”) is an Israeli human rights NGO founded in September 2017 by Rabbi Arik Ascherman, who led Rabbis for Human Rights for 21 years. Torat Tzedek strives for a society that honors G-d’s Image in every human being and works for the human rights that is necessitated by G-d’s Image. Torat Tzedek’s work focuses on a range of issues, including preventing home demolitions and family evictions, accompanying shepherds in the Jordan Valley, public housing/socionomic justice for Israelis, issues facing Bedouin communities in the Negev, and supporting African asylum seeker communities.

Umm Al Khair Guest House and Community Center offers visitors an opportunity to learn about the customs and culture of Bedouin communities, as well as come into a deeper understanding of Palestinian communities resisting violence, military occupation, and discrimination. Along with excellent accommodations in the ‘Desert Shepherd Guest House’, visitors are given a geo-poltiical tour and are able to partake in a number of cultural workshops including traditional bread making, shepherding, goat milking, and a textiles workshop.