Peace for Palestine Initiative

Peace for Palestine is an LFFP initiative born out of the strong conviction that we must work for peace around the world. Peace cannot exist without our care both for those immediately around us and those around the world. The initiative’s purpose is to stand in solidarity with our friends experiencing a genocide in Gaza and provide support for our friends here in the DMV who are heartbroken due to the unbelievable violence.

How to get involved

Bi-weekly focus circles: LFFP provides bi-weekly virtual focus circles for students, activists, and everyone else to share and listen about global events that are on our hearts and minds. This circle is open to anyone who wants to share their thoughts and feelings about what is happening in Gaza and other parts of the world. The goal of this group is to forge a community of vulnerability, solidarity, and healing.

Presence at pro-ceasefire demonstrations with partner organizations in the DMV area: Details coming soon.

​Preparation for a peace camp at Tent of Nations, a farm in Palestine’s West Bank that is committed to peace and understanding: ​Details coming soon.

Peace Camp at Tent of Nations

Tent of Nations is a Palestinian educational, ecological farm founded in 1916. The farm now hosts hundreds of visitors and volunteers from around the world each year, teaching agriculture, environmentalism, and empowerment to Palestinians and those from around the world. Tent of Nations has always been a proponent of peace in the region, despite repeated attacks on persons and property by Israeli settlers. LFFP plans to send a delegation with the consent of Tent of Nations. This delegation would have the opportunity to learn the lessons that Tent of Nations teaches about peace with others, ourselves and the land. They would get to see firsthand what Palestinian life is like under occupation. In return, the delegation would run a summer peace camp for Palestinian children and bring home the stories of those that they meet.