“We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For”

Nearly from its inception, the Hashlamah Project has had chapters, study circles, contacts, or affiliated communities across North America, Europe, Australia, Israel, Palestinian communities, and the wider Middle East and North Africa. Learn more about the chapters in our founder's doctoral dissertation, Persistence of Jewish-Muslim Reconciliatory Activism in the Face of Threats and “Terrorism” (Real and Perceived) From All Sides. 

This dissertation concerns how Jewish-Muslim and Israel-Palestine grassroots activism can persist in the face of threats to the safety, freedom, lives, or even simply the income and employment of those engaged in acts of sustained resistance. At the heart of the study are the experiences of participants in the Hashlamah Project. Across chapters and even nations, members faced similar threats and found universally-applicable solutions emerging for confronting those threats and persisting in the face of them. The study showed an array of widely-employed methods for navigating threats in high risk activism, and persevering with such work in the face of these threats. This dissertation is available in open access at AURA: Antioch University Repository and Archive, http://aura.antioch.edu/ and OhioLINK ETD Center, https://etd.ohiolink.edu/.