Eli Johnson served as the Policy Advocacy Coordinator with AFSC's Office for Public Policy and Advocacy. Before joining AFSC, they were a Field Organizer for Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch where they educated and mobilized constituents against the Trans Pacific Partnership.

In September 2015, I joined colleagues from around the country on a delegation to the occupied Palestinian territories to meet with farmers, business people, politicians, and activists, in order to learn about how Israeli occupation impacts daily life for Palestinians living in the occupied territories.  Our delegation visited the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Jerusalem.  This is second in a series of articles on my reflections of my visit to Palestine.- Pedro