Israeli and Palestinian women wage peace and share light
Women Wage Peace leaders speak at the People’s Peace Summit 2025 in Jerusalem. (M.A. Kirk)A Jewish friend, Dianne Monroe, wrote a play called "Lost Recipes" based on interviews with Israeli and Palestinian women, including our doctoral student, Rolla Alaydi. Decades ago, women had been friends, even nursing one another's babies. I then wondered: How were the recipes for friendship lost? That play helped my students and me recognize the value of placing Israeli and Palestinian stories side by side —…
Israeli and Palestinian women are collaborating on peace initiatives amid ongoing conflict. Dianne Monroe and Rolla Alaydi, a Jewish and a Palestinian woman, created a play and a cookbook, respectively, to highlight shared human stories and transform trauma into compassion. Rolla's nephew, Salem, shares his experiences from Gaza on Instagram, drawing parallels to Anne Frank's diary. Concurrently, Yael Admi of Women Wage Peace and Reem Al-Hajajreh of Women of the Sun led the "Barefoot Walk: Mothers' Call for Peace" in Rome on March 24, 2026, advocating for the protection of all children. This movement, which included a meeting with Pope Leo XIV, seeks global support for the petition stating, "No child should be raised to kill or be killed." These women's efforts, which became critical after the October 7, 2023, attacks, have earned them a Nobel Peace Prize nomination, emphasizing that "Love prevails over the forces that seek to divide us."
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