Hannah Mermelstein – Palestine speaker
Hannah Mermelstein is a co-founder of Birthright Unplugged www.birthrightunplugged.org, which brings mostly North American Jews to Palestine to expose them to realities of life under occupation and encourage them to become part of the solution; and brings Palestinian youth who live in refugee camps to Jerusalem, the sea, and their ancestral villages.
Hannah Mermelstein worked with the International Women’s Peace Service
(www.iwps.info) in the West Bank for 8 months between 2003-2005, joining
Palestinians in nonviolent resistance against occupation and documenting and
intervening to interrupt human rights abuses. In 2005 she co-founded a
program called Birthright Unplugged (www.birthrightunplugged.org). Hannah feels called to work to stop the
injustices that are happening in her name as a Jew and with her money as an
American. While in the US, Hannah is involved in local organizing and
activism, and has spoken about her experiences at universities, high
schools, churches, synagogues, and homes.