We are proud to announce our new partnership with the Mothers of Sumud Garden! The link to donate is here and continue reading for more information about who Mothers of Sumud are and why we began this partnership.
Founded in 2020, the Mothers of Sumud (MOS) Garden is a women and youth-led community gardening project, and a site of Palestinian-Jewish co-resistance against the Israeli occupation and apartheid. It aims to create safe spaces for Palestinian mothers and children to enjoy themselves, socialise, and grow fresh produce for their meals, and has a dual purpose of symbolising and expressing Palestinian ‘steadfastness’ (sumud) in their decades of ceaseless resistance against Israeli settler encroachment.
The garden is located in Area C of the West Bank, which means since 1967 it has been under military occupation by the IDF, and the community have been facing harassment, violence and destruction at the hands of Israeli settlers, increasingly over the past year.
Attacks on the garden have included cutting water lines, smashing solar panels, uprooting olive trees, destroying water pipes and setting fires. For nine months in the past year, the MOS community were unable to access their garden without being shot at by the settlers nearby. This is all against a backdrop of daily practices of settler violence.
The Dirty Weekenders committee wholly support the Palestinian struggle against occupation, apartheid and genocide, and the wider fight for Palestinian liberation and the right of return. In partnering and working with the Mothers of Sumud, we hope to shine a light on the Israeli violence outside of Gaza as well as within, as well as on Palestinian practices of community care, land stewardship and agriculture as forms of nonviolent resistance. By supporting this project, and sharing the story of MOS and At Tuwani, we are joining these communities to affirm the hopeful vision of a just, green and free Palestine.