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Activists with the Center for Jewish Non-Violence accompany Palestinian residents of Susya into the archeological site where the latter’s village once stood, South Hebron Hills, July 14, 2016. (Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man)

WATCH: A new brand of Jewish nonviolence in Palestine

What happens when dozens of Jewish American activists come to Palestine to practice civil disobedience alongside Palestinians struggling against the occupation? In the summer of 2016, dozens of Jews from the U.S. and other countries came to Palestine, at the request of Palestinian activists, to use nonviolence, civil disobedience, and their privilege as Jews to…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man November 30, 2016

An Israeli soldier attempts to stop activists with the Center for Jewish Non-Violence in the West Bank city of Hebron, July 15, 2016. (Dahlia Scheindlin)

Jewish, Palestinian activists try to build a cinema in Hebron

As soldiers and settlers look on, dozens of foreign Jews join Palestinians in the segregated city of Hebron try ‘to make the unbearable a little more bearable.’ Police detain six Israelis among the group, prevent others from even joining. The streets in the Israel-controlled section of Hebron were sunny and silent at 9 a.m. on Friday. The Palestinian shops…

By Dahlia Scheindlin July 15, 2016

Palestinian residents of Susya point to caves and wells where they once lived and drank before the Israeli army evicted them from their village in order to turn it into an archeological site, Susya, South Hebron Hills, July 14, 2016. (Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man)

PHOTOS: Palestinians of Susya return to village they were expelled from

North American and European activists from the Center for Jewish Non-Violence accompany the Palestinian residents of Susya to the site of their former village, from which they were expelled three decades ago. A group of American and European Jews on Thursday accompanied Palestinian residents of Susya to the former site of their village, from which they were…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man July 14, 2016

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