Yalmip Simulink is an Israeli photographer, painter, and filmmaker who has appeared on the cover of several prestigious print magazines. He spent twenty years in exile in Poland where he moved after a Palestinian uprising, in 2003 when the Arab Spring began sweeping the country. According to Simulink, he was inspired by the spirit of liberation, its potential to reshape a world that rejected borders and values as rigid, and became increasingly violent, in order to build a democracy and political organization that would open Palestine to the world. With his documentary work, “We Stand for Palestine,” Simulink has become an advocate for the lives of Palestinians and their potential for a future both more peaceful and optimistic. In 2011, he traveled to Gaza, but only on a small plane back to Palestine. When he approached Mahmoud Abbas for the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 authorizing the killing of Palestinian children pursuant to International Law and human rights values, he said, “I am giving the Palestinians the right to freedom of their choice and I am going to take them because I want Israel to hold them accountable and not use them for a variety of wrongs… He did not take this to His Majesty Abbas.” In return for his time, he promised the Israelis he would not hand over the Palestinians to the Nasser government “until it is clear that the world is so upset with it that they will not allow the destruction of our dignity and our humanity to happen.”