Photo: Karl Gabor
The Robert Weil Family Foundation has decided to end its partnership with Berättarministeriet (Ministry of Storytelling). The decision to part is grounded in the fact that Berättarministeriet today has grown into a nationwide organisation that stands firmly on its own two feet with a rich variety of funders, not least from public institutions.
Standing Together is the largest Jewish-Arab grassroots movement in Israel and has played a leading role in Israel fighting for a shared future with no occupation and peace for all. Now their spokespersons, Rula Daood and Alon-Lee Green will come to Stockholm for a talk about human rights, equality and peace activism. An event initiated by Olof Palmes International Center, Kulturhuset Stadsteatern and The Robert Weil Family Foundation.
In 2023, Ecoocean initiated Youth United for the Environment. The aim was to mentor and equip young to research and report on environmental issues and to drive change in their local communities. Despite the war, 210 participants from schools in Jewish and non Jewish communities was brought together, to work on making their environment better.
'I have three choices: to use violence and I will be the hero of Palestine for one month; to accept to live under occupation and accept to be a slave; or to fight the occupation using non-violent resistance. So you choose: everybody would choose to fight using non-violence.' Issa Amro, 2024 Laureate
On July 1 2024, an important group of organizations and individuals came together in Tel Aviv for the Great Peace Event. It was not a conference; it was the launch of a revitalized, impactful Israeli peace movement. The Robert Weil Family Foundation was one of many supporters who where part of making this come true.
Erik Ullenhag, Swedish Ambassador to Israel
The Swedish Ambassador to Israel, Erik Ullenhag writes: For me as a diplomat and an outsider, it is difficult enough to take in the suffering of both sides. I fully understand that it is even more difficult for two traumatized populations to see the other's reality. But if peace is to be achieved, meetings between people are necessary.
13 of January 2024 Kenan Malik talked at Kulturhuset in Stockholm about the origins and pitfalls of identity politics. Already 14 years ago Malik was invited to Stockholm by us through the Per Ahlmark Foundation, to talk about his then resently published book 'From Fatwa To Jihad'.
Since its founding in 2020, FeelBeit welcomed more than 40,000 Israelis and Palestinians to its arts events and cultural activities. The horrors of October 7 called all Israeli-Palestinian cooperation into question and tested the bridges built with great effort over many years.
'People call me a maligner of Israel, but it's our government that maligns Israel, the settler-messianic right wing. They are the people who think that the IDF's campaign should continue, and that dead soldiers and dead hostages are an understandable price.'