Renowned Palestinian activist Iyad Burnat shares the latest from the occupied West Bank, including community responses to escalating settler violence and expanding illegal settlements. Iyad Burnat is born and raised in the Palestinian village of Bil’in in the West Bank. He leads the Bil’in Popular Committee against the Wall, which since 2005 has mounted weekly non-violent direct action against apartheid. He is also head of Friends of Freedom and Justice in Bil’in, a pro-Palestinian organization with the stated aims of building a “wide network of people from all over the globe who support Freedom and Justice for all.”

Iyad’s brother Emad Burnat made the award-winning documentary “5 Broken Cameras,” which screens July 5, 2026, at WFC.