The Tent of Nations: one family’s story of peaceful resistance

Sumud is the Arabic word for ‘steadfastness’: the stubborn, patient insistence that, despite the odds, things will work out. The Tent of Nations, a small farm 7 kilometres south-west of Bethlehem, is a case study in Palestinian sumud. The story of the farm is one-of-a-kind but only by degree. The issues at the heart of the story – namely the threat Palestinians feel to their autonomy over, ownership of, and freedom within the land of their ancestors – play out for family after family, day after day, all throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territories.