Delegations

Typically about ten days long, CJNV delegations bring Jewish activists from around the world to Israel/Palestine to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Palestinian and Israeli activists struggling against apartheid and occupation. Activities include the use of creative direct action and civil disobedience, community coresistance projects, and critical education.

During delegations, activists:

• Contribute to Palestinian-led on-the-ground resistance, achieving material gains by protecting land and building collective power.

• Bring global attention to specific areas, issues and activists they work and engage with during the delegation time.

• Gain a deeper knowledge of and connection to this work and on-the-ground communities, activists and experiences.

• Build skills and relationships to propel this work forward in their home communities.

We know that these delegations disrupt and destabilize the material and ideological systems that uphold the Israeli occupation, apartheid, and efforts to ethnically cleanse Palestinian communities. And these violent systems harm communities across all of Israel/Palestine. When we come together as a part of a network of joint civil resistance – across different identities, privileges, and proximities to power – we manifest new realities and possibilities, powerfully countering the systems of ‘divide and conquer’ and the narratives which sustain them.

Our community of activists comprises many genders, sexualities, races, ethnicities, nationalities, languages, socio-economic classes, levels of formal education, forms of religious observance, and organizational affiliations. We embrace this diversity and expect that all participating activists will act with openness and respect.

We come together under a common banner of solidarity and coresistance. We believe that in coming together across these differences, we gain greater collective power, and we challenge and push each other to become fuller and more developed justice-seekers.

We strongly encourage people to apply who have skills and experience in some of the following:

• Civil Disobedience and Direct Action

• Nonviolent Theory and Practice

• Cross-Community Organizing

• Human Rights Accompaniment and Documentation work

• Communications and Media

• Facilitation or Mediation

• Arabic and/or Hebrew Proficiency

• Experience in the region

We seek to center those most affected by structural oppression. We recognize that our organization has historically been majority white-Ashkenazi, Western, and Anglophone, and we warmly encourage Jews of Color, Mizrahi, and Sephardi Jews to apply and have scholarships available to support those who need it.

We don’t have any delegations planned at this time that are open to the public. Instead, please consider joining us for the Olive Harvest or Hineinu.

The best way to stay updated on our current and upcoming programs and make sure you don’t miss chances to join our work is by signing up for our newsletter and following us on Instagram.

We don’t have any delegations planned at this time that are open to the public. Instead, please consider joining us for the Olive Harvest or Hineinu.

The best way to stay updated on our current and upcoming programs and make sure you don’t miss chances to join our work is by signing up for our newsletter and following us on Instagram.

Fee for participation is offered on a sliding scale. The program cost is all-inclusive and subsidized. Fees cover housing, transportation, food, insurance, training, supplies, and more. The fee DOES NOT include airfare. Participants are responsible for making their own international travel arrangements to and from the region.

• Solidarity Rate is $3,200. This rate covers program This rate covers program costs and contributes toward CJNV’s operational expenses, as well as supporting our ability to subsidize costs for other activists. We ask all those who are able to pay the solidarity rate to help subsidize the cost of participation for those with fewer financial resources.

• Base Rate is $1,600. This rate covers program costs such as housing, food, transportation on the ground, and equipment, but it does not cover CJNV’s operational expenses.

• Subsidized Rate is $1,400.This is a subsidized rate that we offer in an effort to make this important solidarity work financially accessible for interested activists. If you are interested in applying for the subsidized rate, please fill out the corresponding questions in the application.

CJNV is committed to making solidarity activism financially accessible. We do not turn participants away based on ability to pay, though we do ask that participants pay as close to the top of the sliding scale as is possible for them. Our sliding scale programming is sustained by grassroots fundraising and volunteer support. If you are unable to pay any of these rates, please let us know in your application.

Participating activists are encouraged to crowd-fund to help offset the costs of their participation. In the past, participating activists have been able to raise the entire cost of their program through these platforms. CJNV staff can support individuals with their fundraising initiatives.