Invitation to29th Farkha Festival in Palestine 2026 –
Fighting against Genocide and Apartheid
Summer 2026 in Farkha/ West Bank, Palestine
March 13, 2026
Dear Comrades and Friends,
the Festival Committee, the Youth of the Palestinian People Party (former Palestinian Communist Party), and Albad Cultural Center have decided that despite, or rather because of, the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestine, a Farkha Festival will take place this year. Because resistance means life.
We invite you to participate in one week of volunteer work, political discussions and workshops about the Palestinian struggles towards liberation and justice and the right of self determination, struggles of Palestinian women, left perspectives and cultural activities in the village of Farkha in Palestine.
The 29th edition of the Farkha Festival will be held in August 2026. Before the festival starts we will organize a three day long political tour to places and regions of resistance in Palestine to learn more about concrete local struggles directly from political activists and organizations on the ground, in order to know more how to continue the internationalist struggle.
Farkha Festival is rooted in and inspired by the work of the communist leader Tawfeeq Zayyad, a national poet and politician who was elected mayor of Nazareth in 1973. Tawfeeq played a key role in pressuring the occupation government to end its repression towards Palestinians – those who remained in their homes after the Nakba „1948 war„ and now live inside Israel. Because Tawfeeq tried to bring about change from within, he was constantly threatened by the occupying forces, his projects for the community of Nazareth were rejected, and his funding was significantly cut. Nevertheless, he managed to gather thousands of people every year to organize volunteer festivals in Nazareth and, with the help of the volunteers’ labor, to implement the Nazareth municipality’s plans without much state funding.
After having taken part in volunteer festivals in Nazareth, comrades brought the idea back home to Farkha. The Farkha Festival, has since focused on the collective works in the village, in renovating the main school, kinder gardens, and the public spaces, also trying to protect the lands threatened from confiscation, and a joint work in the ecological community garden project “Qamr Al-Balad” and has set itself the goal of linking precisely political struggles for liberation in Palestine with other local and international struggles, as well as with issues of environmental and climate justice. This includes the promotion of sustainable ecological agriculture, the cultivation of native plants and the passing on of this knowledge to the next generation, as well as the political debate on women’s rights, gender relations and decolonial struggles. With this spirit and tradition of resistance we want to invite you to join our resistance to dismantle the Israeli regime of genocide and settler colonialism in Palestine.
Farkha Festival has always been a place of international solidarity with the struggling Palestinian people, but also with struggles around the world – whether in occupied Kurdistan, occupied Western Sahara, the Basque country or elsewhere.
We are looking forward to welcome you!
Here you find summarized the most important information:
FARKHA FESTIVAL takes place in August 2026 in Farkha/West Bank, Palestine. The accommodation and all services during the festival will be provided to everyone for free. However, donations are highly appreciated.
THREE POLITICAL DAY TRIPS directly before the start of the festival for international volunteers. The tours will most probably take place in Nazareth, Jerusalem, Hebron and/ or in the Jordan Valley. The exact locations and further information will be announced as soon as the program is available. During these three days accommodation, transportation and food expenses need to be covered by the participants. We will collect a fix amount from you and pay for all of us. It will be around 150€ p.p. – depending on the number of participants and accommodation costs.
To make our planning a little easier, please let us know – via email – as soon as possible whether you would like to participate in the Festival AND in the Political Day Trips – OR only in the Festival: solidarity247@posteo.de
Please register not later than May 15, 2026.
For registration we need…
· name
· email address
· mobile number (we use signal)
· your organization (if applicable)
· city and country (to connect you with other participants, e.g. to coordinate your travels)
· languages you speak (to ask you in case for support in translation)
· your motivation: how you heard about us and why you would like to participate
Please don’t hesitate to contact us for further information.
We will contact you individually or via your organization to confirm your participation after your registration.
It is our honor to welcome you in our village. We greatly appreciate your support and solidarity.
Farkha Festival Committee