Observations from a November 2025 Study Tour
The heat has been turned up immeasurably in the West Bank, where a majority of the non-diaspora Palestinian population is finding it ever more difficult to live. The physical, psychological and spiritual violence from "religious settlers" reached a record high two weeks before... Read more
Recognizing that the state cannot do everything, it is opening up its economy to democratic worker owned cooperatives as well as small private businesses. Foreign investment is being invited to expand the economy. Some say this is a step toward capitalism. Others say it is a socialism for the 21st century based on a belief in the social consciousness of a revolutionary people that is invigorating civil society.