Now, please think of fundraising one last time this year—and thanks to our runners who’re taking a final shot at providing 35 university scholarships this year. We’ve raised just over $30,000, approximately 30 scholarships. We’re close and a couple of sizable donations are on the way.

For anyone waiting for the right moment to make your fundraising push: the time is Now. Palestine—the people, the land, the truth that everyone is equal—needs our support.

• If you need a sign, Palestinian Christians released their Kairos II statement on November 14, 16 years after Kairos I. Whereas Kairos I called out Israel’s occupation as a sin against God and humanity, Kairos II names what’s happening in Palestine as genocide and ethnic cleansing conducted by a settler-colonial enterprise: Kairos II  
• Kairos is a Greek word with the meaning (spiritually) of “an opportune time” or “the right time.”

Education truly makes a difference. Let’s test that assertion: in your own experience, what degrees and learning experiences could you subtract without losing your identity and profession?

• For Palestinians, education is an opportunity for bettering themselves and their communities, for rebuilding, and for articulating their existence and their rights. Education is the foundation for resisting oppression and elimination.

And yes, our contribution makes a difference. Any one of us can provide a Palestinian with a university scholarship—the tuition for one year, for approximately $1000. We don’t expect that, but simply to do what’s sustainable, whether (for our runners) to ask your friends for donations or to contribute yourself.

Thanks to all who have contributed! Here’s where you can give on our Iqraa page on the UPA website:  Iqraa-UPA Partnership.