One of the easiest and most enjoyable ways of supporting the Palestinian people is buying Palestinian products, for yourself and for gifts. There are many places online to do that and we have a few featured here. Many of these products have been imported from Palestine and are available to order from sources in the US. Some are solidarity products, such as pins and T-shirts, that are produced outside of Palestine.
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Through a combination of extensive education and training, organic and fair trade certification, and community empowerment programs, Canaan Fair Trade, a Palestinian commercial enterprise, enables small farmers and women organized in village cooperatives to pool their resources and have direct access to long-term global market opportunities. Specifically the initiative creates economic stability for rural Palestinian communities caught in the midst of conflict by cultivating local and global partnerships that are invested in creating economically viable and environmentally sustainable farming in Palestine. Canaan combines traditional farming practices with cutting edge innovations in farming and production through research and development to enhance product yield and quality, resulting in premium products that are competitive in global markets. As a result small farmers and women are able to earn a living, maintain their relationship to their land, and provide a future for their children.
Palbox is most of all an act of solidarity with Palestinians. The proceeds from the sale of Palbox products go to the Northern California chapter of the International Solidarity Movement, which supports Palestinian nonviolent resistance against Israeli occupation, destruction and confiscation of Palestinian land and property and violation of Palestinian human rights.
Launched in December 2003, Palestine Online Store is an activist project dedicated to making Palestine-related materials more widely available and to increasing public awareness of the necessity for peace and justice for the Palestinian people. While the project started out with a focus on informational resources such as books and DVDs, it has expanded to include apparel, jewelry, handcrafted items, and food products. Whenever possible, we source these materials directly from Palestine, providing economic support to local farmers, artists, and others who struggle against unprecedented challenges. Our goals are to increase awareness of and connection with Palestine and to benefit the artisans, farmers and other producers/suppliers who remain steadfast in the motherland.
Our Palestinian Art products currently include Wall Calendars, Posters, Books and Greeting Cards. We will be regularly introducing new items such as bookmarks, T-shirts, and a variety of Palestinian Art stationeries. We will continue to channel a percentage of the proceeds from all our current and future projects to Palestinian cultural organizations and to help support local artists.
Welcome to Sindyanna of Galilee, a unique non-profit organization led by a team of Arab and Jewish women working to create social change from the ground up. Our goals are to produce outstanding olive oil and other premium food products, while enhancing Arab-Jewish cooperation, promoting Fair Trade, creating economic opportunities for Arab women, and assisting local growers and producers.
Choosing meaningful gifts handcrafted by women artisans & cooperatives in Palestine enables women to generate income & sustain their households under the very challenging circumstances they live in. We work with over 30 women's cooperatives, artisans and designers whose pieces tell the story of Palestinian traditions and heritage. Often times, the stories behind the products are as beautiful as the handicrafts themselves. We are based in Ramallah, Palestine, with partners from across the country. Thank you for choosing to shop ethically and support our work!
This is our guide to buying Palestinian products around the world. Priority is given to sites that sell fair trade goods, goods produced in Palestine, and that raise money for advocacy and social causes.
Founded in 2014, West Bank Apparel is a clothing brand established right in the West Bank. Although their products are mainly inspired by the Palestinian culture and nationality, WBA also has a variety of pieces representative of countries around the world like Afghanistan, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Pakistan, Syria, and Yemen.
They donate a minimum of 15% of their profits towards supporting Palestinian orphans and refugees, as well as other humanitarian causes through programs carried out by Islamic Relief USA as well as PCRF and UNRWA. Visit their website to shop their unique products and to support an important cause at the same time.
Based in Los Angeles, California, West Bank Hoodie was founded by Palestinian Americans prideful of their Palestinian homeland and identity. Whether you are a proud Palestinian yourself, or a supporter of their cause, you can find a range of contemporary statement pieces to express yourself in. Shop their products to show your Pali pride, here.
Nol Collective is an intersectional feminist, political fashion brand that encompasses and reflects Palestinian culture, ethical practices, and social justice. Their products are manufactured by women cooperatives and small family-run businesses across Gaza and the West Bank. Shop their unique pieces and support these local businesses, here.
They donate 10% of their profits to charitable organizations and other projects like documentaries, anti-surveillance work, student activism, domestic and international legal advocacy, refugee empowerment, and other political work that supports the long-term, strategic liberation of Palestine. Connect with and celebrate your watan through their products, here.
Located in Ramallah, Palestine, Nadine Khalili creates handmade, unique jewelry pieces that are custom-made from high-quality gold-filled and gold-plated wires. For her website launch, she is currently offering 15% off on all products at checkout. Shop her beautiful collection of accessories, here.
From thobes, prayer outfits, and hoodies to jewelry, purses, wall art, and home decor, Falastini Brand shares high-quality designs of Palestinian-influenced products that carry its heritage with a modern twist. Shop their affordable falastini products, here.
Designed by tradition, Dar Collective is a unisex apparel brand that creates products emblematic of different regions and cultural identities around the world. In its Palestine series, it offers a wide selection of clothing and decorative pieces with different Palestinian designs and motifs. Browse their Palestine series, here.
Bringing you the best of Palestinian handicrafts, Handmade Palestine supports fair trade and showcases products handmade by over 25 talented artisans, cooperatives, and designers from Palestine. For example, one of the cooperatives they work with is Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children, which creates beautiful products to support a deaf school in Gaza.
Darzah is a Fair Trade certified, non-profit, ethical fashion brand that works with women artisans in the West Bank to create 100% authentic, handmade and hand-embroidered Palestinian products. Each and every Darzah purchase goes towards employment programs, artisan salaries, and job training in the West Bank. Make an impact by supporting the economic empowerment of women in the West Bank through their beautifully crafted pieces, here.
"Our aim is to delight our customers with premium quality products that are fairly traded, organically grown and sourced from small-scale farmers while supporting farming communities through trade rather than aid."
This impelled me to buy olive oil, medjoul dates, maftoul (couscous) and almonds, all of high quality, from Palestine. They are imported by Zaytoun, a non-profit organisation established to support Palestinian farming communities by helping to increase the market for their olive oil products and other artisanal produce.
When Human Rights Watch called on companies to stop supporting human rights violations by purchasing diamonds from Zimbabwe or oil products from Sudan or logging products from Myanmar, human rights defenders cheered. But when Human Rights Watch makes similar recommendations regarding the Israeli occupation, the authors of this bill try to punish any who wish to comply. Of all the human rights abusers in the world, this bill would single out Israel for special protection.
One other danger of this bill is that it will contribute to anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bigotry in the United States. Imagine an Arab-owned company in New Jersey. It imports various products from, say, Jordan. But was its decision to import from Jordan rather than Israel a purely business decision or was it based on a motivation to boycott Israel? Are the State Investment Council and the Director of the Division of Investment and the "independent research firm" retained by them now going to try to determine why the company imported Jordanian rather than Israeli figs?
Some Jewish-Americans chose not to buy Volkswagens because of past German crimes. Some Korean-Americans, believing that Tokyo has not properly atoned for its crimes against "comfort women," may shun Japanese products. They have every right to do this, and no one investigates them for it. But if any Palestinian-American-owned companies feel uncomfortable investing in or buying from Israel, a country whose oppression of their people was not just in the past, S1923 would authorize examining their motives and punishing them.
This industry, however, was in the main domestic and small workshop industry, each enterprise employing only a few workers. Thus of the 309,000 handicraft and industrial workers in 1913, about 208,000 were domestic workers. The number of piece workers among the total handicraft workers was even greater, their number reaching 247 thousand. Large manufacturing works employing some scores of workers were exceptional. In Syria and Palestine combined (at that time both had common administrative boundaries) there were less than 100 works employing more than 50 workers each, and about 12 employing more than a hundred workers. The only larger-scale industry was silk spinning. In 1912 there were 169 spinning works with 9,547 spindles, an average of 56 spindles per factory. There were 89 works with more than 50 spindles, and 20 with 100 and more. Each spindle employed one worker. Although these industries were small and primitive, the quality of their products was not poor at all. Syrian cloths and metal goods from Damascus workshops had a high repute in the markets of the Middle East and even outside them. Lebanese silk spinning and weaving held a leading position, and metal, soap and leatherworks also held their own easily.
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