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About Quakers advocating for Justice for Palestine

We are a small, active, dedicated group from different regions within New England. Most of us have visited Palestine-Israel numerous times and have been active on related issues for nearly two decades.
Our goals are to foster comprehension of the constantly shifting political landscape, encourage Quaker and individual action, ultimately to contribute to a just peace in Palestine-Israel. One vehicle for this is strong fair minutes from NEYM and our constituent monthly and quarterly meetings.
Our two most recent projects—other than fostering minutes supporting Palestinian human rights—have been distributing copies to monthly meetings of a recent book by Sa’ed Atshan, Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique and organizing a memorial fund to honor two of our group’s founders, Joyce Rawitcscher and Sandy Isaacs and his wife Nancy Issacs. The fund would support New England Quakers traveling to Palestine-Israel to later report on their discoveries.

Active Members: Cliff Bennett (VT), Anita Rapone (Burlington Meeting, VT), Scott Rhodewalt (Northeast Kingdom Meeting, VT), Steve McKnight (Wellesley Meeting), and Skip Schiel  (Friends Meeting at Cambridge, MA).
Sandy Isaacs was a key founding member active until his death in January 2019, and Joyce (McKelvey) Rawitscher was an earlier important founding member, active until her death in November 2016. We honor and commemorate Charles Simpson, an active member of our group, who died on May 3, 2021 of pancreatic cancer. Charles was instrumental to justice for Palestinians thru, among other ways, his service on the American Friends Service Committee Corporation. Martha Yager, former staff person for the American Friends Service Committee, significantly helped us in our first years.

We are a volunteer working group within New England Yearly Meeting. We are related to the Quaker Palestine Israel Network (QPIN), the Palestine Israel Action Group (Ann Arbor Monthly Meeting), and the dormant Quakers with a Concern for Palestine-Israel, (Ann Arbor Monthly Meeting).