Welcome to Al-Aqsa Institute of Minnesota

Al-Aqsa Institute is a community service organization, incorporated under the laws of the State of Minnesota , by Arab-American peoples, Muslim and Christian alike, that promotes and works for a positive, well-informed awareness of the Middle East focusing attention on Palestine , its history, its people, its culture and its reality.

Its members seek to identify with oppressed peoples and to embrace victims of oppression, to resist discrimination, racism and the degradation of human life and rights and to be an unrelenting instrument on behalf of human dignity. They, in particular, seek recognition and validation of the human narrative to vindicate the suffering of the Palestinian people to render them part of an inclusive human history.

 Its members believe that the time has come for Muslims, Christians and Jews to begin to dialogue, to pursue new avenues for peace with justice, and to discover the common denominator on which their shared humanity can act for peacemaking. The basis for such dialogue is in the belief that all are human beings with equal rights without one side dominating over the other. They honor all who stand for the poor, the dispossessed, the oppressed, the powerless and all who witness courageously to a vision of political and social change in the cause of peace and justice in Palestine and Israel.