As many of you know Alex Kane is a frequent contributor to Mondoweiss. His work on Islamophobia, media analysis, the Freedom Flotilla, and general news from Israel/Palestine has been invaluable. Alex is now raising money to travel to Israel/Palestine as part of a delegation organized by American Jews for a Just Peace. Please help him get there!
This is from Alex’s blog:
In January, I plan on joining a “Health and Human Rights” delegationorganized by members of American Jews for a Just Peace. I will be traveling throughout the West Bank and Israel, meeting with various Palestinian organizations doing amazing work under horrific circumstances. I plan on staying in Israel/Palestine for over two weeks, learning, experiencing, reporting, writing and blogging. But I need your financial help. My initial goal is to raise $1,500 by mid-November—that will cover my plane ticket and additional costs related to the delegation as well as food and other necessities.
The support I received last year enabled me to go to Gaza, and it was a trip that profoundly changed my life. I saw what it meant to be locked inside a open-air prison, learned from my Palestinian peers what it was like to know of the outside world but be blocked from reaching it by a cruel and illegal blockade and saw images of destroyed schools and buildings that will never leave me. I also saw people that have amazing spirit, that refuse to give up to the crushing force of the Israeli occupation. Since returning from Gaza, I have become obsessed with everything Palestine.
I’d be lying if I said we didn’t have a vested interest in getting Alex back to Israel/Palestine, because I think there will be some great posts in it for Mondoweiss, but we need all the honest, hard-hitting reporting from the ground that we can get and I know your investment in Alex will be well worth it. You can donate to his trip, and follow his work, through his website here.
