Author: cody@goodshepherdcollectived.org

It’s critical to remember that while Israel’s use of home demolitions is a constant tool for indigenous displacement and erasure, the ebbs and flows of this formal policy’s execution are shaped by different political formations. A rise in home demolitions almost always corresponds to the power of the most fascist, right-wing elements in Israeli society.…

As we move toward Ramadan this year, Israeli forces and settlers are ramping up violence against Palestinian communities everywhere. While these escalations are a pattern of the Israeli state, they have increased with the new far right Israeli coalition controlling the government. Last week Israeli forces stormed Nablus in broad daylight, entering a busy market in the…

After much consideration and discussion, the members of GSC have done our utmost to explain in detail our split with Tariq, Awdah, and Eid Hathaleen and our disengagement from Um al Khair. Disengagement from Um al Khair: The Good Shepherd Collective disengaged from these men as a result of conflicts of principles on several levels,…

From the Israel Land Fund and their proxies waging war on Sheik Jarrah, to Ateret Cohanim physically squatting and laying claim to the Imperial Hotel at the Jaffa Gate, to Regavim advancing a program of ethnic cleansing in Masafer Yatta and Khan al Ahmar, the Israeli settler movement is organizing and orchestrating the takeover and colonization of…

Colonization, the erasure of Indigenous people — whether that be the programs carried out by the US, Canada, Australia, South Africa, or Israel — mandates relentless violence. This week, as the Israeli regime continued enacting a policy of dispossession and displacement, it demonstrated how vicious and unrestrained state violence is when tightening its grip over…

As the highest echelons of Israeli society called for unbridled violence to rain down onto Palestinians, Israeli forces immediately responded by killing 14 Palestinians over the next two weeks. Meanwhile, settlers and soldiers rampaged through Hebron, Nablus, and poured into the community of Jenin. As Jenin remains a target of Israeli violence, it’s important to remember the…

On Palestinian Land Day, March 30th, we were reminded of the great sacrifices generations of Palestinians have made resisting Israeli settler-colonialism and apartheid. On Land Day we paid homage to Khair Muhammad Yasin from Arrabeh, Raja Hussein Abu Riya, Khader Abd Khalaila, and Khadija Shuwahna from Sakhnin, Muhsin Yusuf Taha from Kafr Kana, and Rafat Zuhairi…

On Saturday, at the invitation of the people of Mufagara, activists from across the South Hebron Hills gathered in the village to stand in solidarity with residents against settler violence and attempted land theft. Good Shepherd Collective joined to document an event organized by the women of Youth of Sumud and community members. The event…

Hebron, Palestine — On Friday, August 27th, around 30 Palestinians and their allies held a protest in al Mufagarah in the South Hebron Hills to end settler violence and land theft as part of their Campaign to Defund Racism. The Israeli military (IOF) arrested Haj Suleiman al-Hathaleen of Um al Khair and detained several media…

Last week, Good Shepherd Collective worked together with a group of activist in al-Rakeez on the building infrastructure of the local residents. Many people will have recently remembered this village through the shooting of Harun by Israeli soldiers in his neck. While trying to keep the electric generator from being stolen by the Israeli Civil…