In conjunction with CFJ-Beit Ummar, our sister organization, we provide sustainable community development and educational programs to help Beit Ummar's residents cope with the oppressive conditions imposed by the Israeli occupation.
Spring 2026 CFJ Dispatch Newsletter
Summer 2025 CFJ Dispatch Newsletter
Spring 2025 CFJ Dispatch Newsletter
CFJ Colorado's mission is to raise public awareness of Beit Ummar, a West Bank Palestinian town in the Hebron District with a population of 22,000, and support its non-violent development in the face of a brutal Israeli occupation. Nestled in Areas B and C under the control of the Israeli military and surrounded by six illegal settlements, Beit Ummar is a microcosm of rural Palestinian life. By educating the public about the Israeli occupation, we seek to end it.
We have worked throughout Colorado to bring more information about the political situation in Palestine to various communities. Our members have spoken in churches, with student groups, and on radio programs. They participate in plays, created a travel Palestine museum, and appear on radio programs. In 2025, we sponsored a major event to highlight the intersectionality between the struggles of Palestinians and Black Americans.
To keep our 1,100 Facebook followers up to date on what is happening in Beit Ummar and surrounding towns, we regularly post news stories and on-the-ground reports from CFJ in Beit Ummar and nearby towns. Follow us on Facebook.
CFJ fundraising supports the Ramadan project that seeks to alleviate hunger among families as their livelihoods are taken away as the occupation undermines the economic base of Beit Ummar and surrounding towns by closing entrances, cutting off access, and destroying crops.
With more than $3,000 raised by CFJ-Colorado, Ramadan food baskets reached 58 families in Beit Ummar, an estimated 290 people.
CFJ Colorado believes working with other social activist, church, Palestinian, and Jewish groups in Colorado is an important part of our educational and political work. We were instrumental in developing coalition work in Colorado, which began with a two-day event at a local Denver church in October 2022. It attracted hundreds of Colorado residents to learn about Palestinian culture and life under the Israeli occupation. This led to the formation of the Colorado Palestine Coalition (CPC). Since then, the CPC has become the main organization in Colorado campaigning for human rights in Palestine and changing US policy toward Israel.
CFJ Colorado has raised over $140,000 so far to build the first formal kindergarten in Beit Ummar. We also partner with an organization planning to establish a major non-violent center to be located next to the kindergarten.
To give children a respite from the daily horrors of the occupation, we fund a summer camp that teaches computer technology. We also fund efforts by a women’s agricultural cooperative, purchase backpacks and supplies for school children, and provide emergency aid for families experiencing duress from Israel’s attempt to economically stifle the town.
See past projects in our Archive
Track ongoing developments and follow our work as we put your donations to good use. Learn more about the overarching political issues surrounding the town of Beit Ummar.
West Bank
August 14, 2026
Two shot with live fire in Sa’ir, third run over and assaulted in Beit Ummar before Israeli army arrested him, according to Red Crescent and local sources.
Beit Ummar
June 22, 2026
Israeli forces killed two Palestinian teenagers and wounded two young men on Sunday night, in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank.
CFJ Colorado
June 16, 2026
CFJ-Colorado calls out Diana DeGette, John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet for failing to examine the ethnic cleansing in Beit Ummar.
Israel’s illegal policies are designed to make Beit Ummar unlivable. Our goal is the opposite. We aim to make life more tolerable until the world community demands that Israel complies with international law and ends its brutal occupation.
By focusing on a single town, we use the example of life in Beit Ummar as a stark example of life under occupation in the West Bank, while also helping to alleviate suffering through the generous donations of our followers. Beit Ummar, is located in the Hebron District which is a main target of Israeli military raids and radical settler attacks.
All donations go to support the work of CFJ in Beit Ummar.
Get in touch.
Visit our Facebook page, where we regularly post news stories and on-the-ground reports from CFJ in Beit Ummar and nearby towns.
Reach out to us at cfjcolorado@gmail.com for additional information.
Our address is PO Box 12235, Denver, CO 80212.
We also encourage you to view the Center for Freedom and Justice webpage which is published directly from Beit Ummar at https://c4fj.org/en/about-us.
If you agree that every human being has a right to self-determination and freedom from oppression, and if you are concerned for Palestinians suffering under the yoke of occupation, please donate to our cause and help us influence U.S. policy towards Israel and Palestine. Together, we can ensure humane treatment for all and spread the understanding that peace can only come about through tolerance and cooperation.
