Where Is the Palestinian Mandela?
Many interested in Israel-Palestine have asked the question: “Where is the Palestinian Mandela?” But Nelson Mandela’s grandson Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela has argued that this question emerges from a distortion of his grandfather’s legacy. Who Was Nelson Mandela?...
Palestine Open Maps
Palestine Open Maps (POM) is a platform that uses mapping technologies in collaboration with researchers to showcase visual stories of the geographical transformation of historic Palestine over the last 70+ years. The project combines 1940s British Mandate of...
“There’s Already Only One State from the River to the Sea”
Dr. Joshua Shanes, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Arnold Center for Israel Studies at the College of Charleston in South Carolina wrote an article for Haaretz titled “Liberal Zionists, Face the Facts: There’s Already Only One State From the...
Wallace Shawn
Playwright and actor Wallace Shawn, best known for his role as Vizzini in The Princess Bride, translated an Anti-Defamation League (ADL) ad that blamed Palestinians for Israel’s mass slaughter of Gazan children. The ad featured and endorsed a statement from the former...
Rafael Silver
Rafael Silver is a Jewish Israeli and a combat veteran of the Israeli army. In a 2022 Mondoweiss op-ed, Silver shared why he left Israel and moved to Canada: “I felt that I could no longer be a part of a system that practices apartheid against the Palestinian...
Miriam Margolyes
British-Australian actress and writer Miriam Margolyes, best known for her award-winning role in The Age of Innocence, shared in an interview about her life as a Jewish anti-Zionist. She said: “We have to be able to criticize Israel.”
Tantura Women, Children, Elderly
The expulsion of Tantura women, children, and elderly from Furaydis to Jordan as the Red Cross supervises June 1948 Courtesy of Israel State Archives from Ben Rothenberg Collection Via Forward.com
Tantura
“Tantura” is a documentary by Israeli director Alon Schwarz which examines why it is taboo to discuss the Nakba in Israel. Tantura is the name of a Palestinian village in which, one week after the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, Jewish forces massacred more...
1948 Nakba War of Independence
Testimonies and classified documents about Israel’s atrocities from the 1948 Nakba/War of Independence, including previously obscured massacres, are beginning to be revealed despite attempts to conceal them. While Israel’s Malmab unit (Hebrew acronym which stands for...
Breakthrough: Transforming Fear into Compassion
In Breakthrough: Transforming Fear Into Compassion, Richard Forer researches and examines the most common arguments from both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict. He shows that “the real enemy is the unexamined mind that projects its suffering onto the other.”...
Wake Up and Reclaim Your Humanity
Wake Up and Reclaim Your Humanity shares the author’s spiritual awakening that transformed him from a staunch supporter of Israel to a person who gained clarity on the roots of suffering in the region. Richard Forer encourages the reader to examine historical...
Why Are Palestinian Christians Leaving Jesus’ Birthplace?
Video title: “Why Are Palestinian Christians Leaving Jesus’ Birthplace? [Pt. 1] AJ+ journalist Dena Takruri interviews Palestinian Christians in Bethlehem to understand why so many native Christians have left the Holy Land over the past several decades. Created by:...
Palestinian-American Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
Video Title: “Inside Israel’s Cover-Up & U.S. Response to Murder of Palestinian-American Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh” Six months after the killing of veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, Israel continues to deny responsibility and take accountability. This...
How Palestinians Are Becoming Doctors in Cuba for Free
Video Title: “How Palestinians Are Becoming Doctors in Cuba for Free” One of the largest contingents of medical students at Cuba’s free medical schools are from Palestine. BreakingThrough News journalist Kei Prisker speaks to Palestinian medical students at Cuba’s...
Farha
Farha is a historical drama based on a true story of a Palestinian girl’s coming-of-age during the Nakba, which is the 1948 displacement of Palestinians from their homes. The film was directed by Darin J. Sallam and premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2021....
G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection
The G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection—formerly known as the Matson Photo Service Collection—contains more than 23,000 glass and film negatives, transparencies, and photographic prints. The photos were created by the American Colony Photo Department, which...
Israel Pre-State Photos by David Serry
David Serry had taken thousands of photos over his lifetime between 1913 and 1981, which feature his Jewish perspective of Middle Eastern descent community in Palestine and Israel. His son, Shlomo Serry, discovered the negatives in the early 2000s and has been working...
Jewish Life in Palestine Prior to the Creation of the Israeli State
Curator Limor Cohen searched dozens of archives in Israel for photos of Jewish life in Palestine prior to the creation of the Israeli state. The photos were presented at the 10th annual PHOTO ISRAEL International Photography Festival in Tel Aviv in conjunction with...
War Crimes by the United Kingdom
Palestinians subjected to war crimes by the United Kingdom have presented a 300-page dossier of evidence, asking for a formal acknowledgement of and apology for the abuses committed by British forces during their rule from 1917 to 1948. The BBC has reviewed the...
Israel State Archives
Five years after requesting access to documents looted from Palestinian institutions during the 1948 war, the Israel State Archives provided historian Shay Hazkani with a list of files which will remain concealed until 2040 in the name of national security. Some of...
Israeli Civil Administration
Haaretz obtained an Israeli Civil Administration internal document which includes a map and Excel sheet titled “Operations Room C.” The document lists 1,168 tip-offs submitted via the online form “Report on Suspected Violations of Planning and Construction Laws”...
New Gallup Poll: Increased American Sympathy for Palestinians
On March 16, 2023, Gallup published the results of a poll that measured American sympathy for Palestinians, Israelis, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority. For the first time, more Democrats (49% versus 38%) sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis....
Journalist Gideon Levy: The Most Controversial Reporter in Israel
Gideon Levy is one of the most famous and controversial journalists in Israel. The Independent has described him as both “the most hated man in Israel” and the “most heroic.” Levy, in turn, describes Israelis as living in a “bubble”—unaware of their government’s...
Israel Deadly Racism?: Killing Unarmed Black and Palestinian Civilians
Israeli Journalist Etan Nechin: A double standard for recognizing racism? Anti-Black and Anti-Palestinian Racism in the U.S. and Israel In a 2020 op-ed for Forward, Israeli journalist Etan Nechin asked the question “Why do Jews recognize the racism of George Floyd’s...
Rachel Tetrault
Rachel Tetrault is a community organizer and campaigner who wrote a letter to Straight.com about Vancouver’s choice to adopt a contentious antisemitism definition. In the letter, Tetrault shares about her Jewish upbringing and facing Israel’s racism against...
Anna Baltzer
Anna Baltzer is a Jewish American award-winning speaker and organizer. She described her observations visiting the West Bank in a book Witness in Palestine: a Jewish Woman in the Occupied Territories and has toured the world presenting her experiences to more than 500...
Seth Morrison
Seth Morrison serves as the Treasurer of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), and he co-founded the Las Vegas JVP chapter. While formerly active in Zionist organizations like the Jewish National Fund, Morrison became exposed to issues of Palestinian human rights and has...
Geraldo Rivera
Geraldo Rivera is an American journalist, attorney, author, and political commentator known for his regular appearances on FOX News programs. Rivera has decried the United States’ participation in Israel’s murdering of children and called for a cease-fire, saying:...
Alice Rothchild
Alice Rothchild is a retired obstetrician-gynecologist who has been focused on understanding the Israeli/Palestinian conflict since 1997. She directed a documentary film, Voices Across the Divide, and writes essays and poetry about the conflict. In a 2021 article for...
Bernie Sanders
Senator Bernie Sanders is an American politician from Vermont who became interested in politics due to his Jewish background: he learned that as a result of Adolf Hitler winning an election, 6 million Jews were murdered including many of his relatives in Poland....
Matan Arad-Neeman
Matan Arad-Neeman is an Israeli-American who worked for President Biden’s presidential campaign in Arizona. He was one of more than 500 staffers who wrote a letter to the President calling for the end of American support for Israel’s occupation: “I am horrified by the...
Rabbi Miriam Grossman
Rabbi Miriam Grossman of the Kolot Chayeinu/Voices of Our Lives congregation in Brooklyn, New York, is an educator and organizer who leads through Jewish ritual. She teaches that following a Jewish theology means protecting the human rights of all people, including...
Ilan Goldenblatt
Ilan Goldenblatt was the Israel-born Chief of Staff to Canadian former Member of Parliament Paul Manly. Manly shared a blog post written by Goldenblatt to describe his stance on Israel-Palestine: based on his experience as a Jewish Israeli, he recognized Israel’s...
Joe Roberts
Joe Roberts is a veteran political strategist and columnist in both the U.S. and Canada. He is the Executive Director of the Centre for Canadian Progress, the co-host of the political podcast New Left Radio, and the Managing Director at Jewish Currents Magazine. In...
Ilan Baruch and Alon Liel
Ilan Baruch and Dr. Alon Liel are two former Israeli ambassadors to South Africa. Dr. Liel also served as the Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Baruch and Liel wrote an op-ed for GroundUp arguing that Israel’s occupation is an apartheid...
Joshua Shanes
Dr. Joshua Shanes, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Arnold Center for Israel Studies at the College of Charleston in South Carolina wrote an article for Haaretz titled “Liberal Zionists, Face the Facts: There’s Already Only One State From the...
Benjamin Moser
In “A trip to Hebron,” Benjamin Moser describes how the apartheid he witnessed transformed him into an advocate for Palestinian rights. Moser says, "Before you can start to feel the justice of the Palestinian cause, you have to go through a lot of steps." He describes...
Mira Sucharov
Dr. Mira Sucharov is Professor of Political Science and University Chair of Teaching Innovation at Carleton University. She is the author of Borders and Belonging: A Memoir (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), a book about her personal experiences with Israel/Palestine, and...
My Name Is Rachel Corrie
Israel Social TV interviews the director and actors of the play “My Name is Rachel Corrie.” The play is based on American activist Rachel Corrie’s diary and takes place among the resistance movement to Israel’s home demolitions of 2003. The video is in Hebrew with...
First Pictures from Palestine: Jerusalem Historical Impressions, 1900-1918
Historical film by Europeans visiting the Holy Land showing people and environments between 1903 and 1918. This video shows historical film footage of the Holy Land between 1903 and 1918 by Bengt von zur Mühlen. It features observations of daily life, including Jews...