{"id":35647,"date":"2017-11-09T10:51:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T15:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=35647"},"modified":"2017-11-14T12:54:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T17:54:41","slug":"cjp-alumnus-leads-just-walk-group-protest-balfour-declaration-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/cjp-alumnus-leads-just-walk-group-protest-balfour-declaration-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"CJP alumnus leads ‘Just Walk’ group to protest Balfour Declaration anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

When a group of British activists concluded their 147-day walk across Europe and the Middle East to mark the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Eastern Mennonite University alumnus Husam Jubran was with them.<\/p>\n

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Hasam Jubran in the West Bank, from the 2012 Peacebuilder magazine, a publication of EMU’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 2004 graduate of the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding<\/a>,\u00a0 a professional guide and nonviolence trainer based in the West Bank, led the group to their final destination on Nov. 2 \u2014 a day both celebrated and condemned worldwide as the first public acknowledgement of British support for the creation of Jewish homeland in Palestine.<\/p>\n

Read a Peacebuilder magazine<\/a> profile of Hasam Jubran.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The \u201cJust Walk to Jerusalem,” organized by the Amos Trust<\/a>, was a call for \u201cfull equal rights for everybody who calls the Holy Land home\u201d and a protest of military occupation of Palestinian territories and the blockade of Gaza, according to a news article<\/a> published by the Palestinian news agency WAFA. After a four-month-long walk across Europe, the walkers entered Hebron through Jordan \u201cto apologize to the Palestinian people for the \u2026 declaration that set the stage for Palestinian dispersion and displacement,\u201d according to the article.<\/p>\n

Interviewed for the WAFA coverage, Jubran said that Just Walk participants had \u201cexpressed regret and sorrow for the Palestinian people who had to suffer after they were forced out of their homes in a move supported by the British government.\u201d<\/p>\n

While in Hebron, the group of 60 witnessed and experienced hardships faced by Palestinians such as restrictions on travel, body searches and harassment, he said.<\/p>\n

Raised in the West Bank town of Beit Sahour and active in the First Intifada, Jubran came to EMU<\/a> in 2002 as a Fulbright Scholar. After graduating with concentrations on facilitation, mediation and nonviolence, he returned to Palestine and developed a conflict analysis and nonviolent organizing training course. For three years beginning in 2008, he continued developing programs through Birzeit University near Ramallah.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2017 Amos Trust\/Mark Kensett<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since 2011, Jubran has been a guide for Mejdi Tours<\/a>, which highlights \u201cdiverse cultural, religious, political, and ethnic narratives.\u201d Facilitating tourism, he said during an interview for EMU\u2019s Peacebuilder magazine in 2012, gives him \u201cthe leverage of reaching many people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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