Wheels of Justice

Haithem El-Zabri is a Palestinian-American activist who attended Birzeit University’s summer program during the First Intifada. At that time, a Palestinian student appealed to him “when you go back to the U.S., tell the American people what you saw here; tell them what the Israelis are doing to us; show them what their government is supporting.” Since then, he has been a dedicated activist and has volunteered with various student groups, and a wide range of local, national, and international solidarity groups. He has organized numerous events, including Seattle’s first Palestine Film Festival, produced the Nakba 2008 calendar, and co-written the booklet “Nakba: The Ongoing Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.” He has lived in Ramallah in 2006-7, where he worked with the U.N., Birzeit University, and helped start a grassroots movement to express opposition to some of the Palestinian Authority’s decisions and policies. Haithem also runs the Palestine Online Store, a project that he founded to make informational materials about the Palestinian issue more widely available and easily accessible.