Huia (“Identity”, in Arabic) is a peace initiative to secure the mutual recognition of both the Palestinian and Israeli identities and their shared belonging to the same land.
Identity—or Huia—is the core of this crisis, and its only solution. Huia was founded by Ali Abu Awwad in 2025 to extend his life’s experience, nonviolence, and core principles for peace towards durable solutions to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
We envision life for the Palestinian and Israeli people grounded in dignified peace, security, mutual recognition, and belonging to our shared land. Our work starts at home in the West Bank, with political organizing, training, and capacity building for future leaders grounded in nonviolence ideology. We then engage civil society and political leadership regionally and globally in partnerships that increase understanding of the core of this crisis—the recognition of identity—and build support for solutions. We tell our story around the world, engaging global citizens and inspiring them to join us and choose to be pro-solution, helping to support an environment for accountability and lasting peace.
Help us raise global consciousness and build political will for a strategic path to lasting peace for the Palestinian and Israeli people. You can learn more about Ali and Huia's work here: https://www.huiaidentity.org/