[Note: Subaiah was kind enough to share her feelings about being an Ambassador for her school's Olive Branch Award. Solutions Not Sides is running a matched fundraising campaign so that 10 other schools can join Subaiah's next academic year. Every donation is doubled during the week 10th-17th April - so for everyone £1 you donate, we receive £2! You can find out more and donate at this link.]

By Saed, a Palestinian SNS speaker from the West Bank

[Editors note: This is the first in a new series from Palestinians and Israelis looking at contemporary culture, film, TV, music and more.]

In Israel we are currently watching the dramatic fallout of the election of the most extreme right-wing government in its history. Meanwhile, in Palestine, elections have not taken place for nearly two decades, with an extremist government in Gaza and an authoritarian regime in the West Bank.

As protests in Israel continue to escalate in their scale and innovative use of tactics, our Israel Coordinator Eran Nissan wrote about why he thinks protest is still an important tool in bringing about positive change in society.

The protests are primarily against the Israeli government's efforts to introduce very controversial judicial reform but also against wider issues of corruption and the accountability of politicians, and for a smaller number of protestors this also include Israel's ongoing occupation and control of Palestinians & Palestinian territory.

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The effects and trauma of the situation in Palestine-Israel can be far-reaching and people in Britain can be touched and experience emotional and mental pain because of it. It can also, occasionally, spill over into incidents of physical violence.