A Burglary Motivated by Racism

A Burglary Motivated by Racism

Haaaretz journalists Gideon Levy and Alex Levac reported on a West Bank burglary case in 2020 in which a small Palestinian business was repeatedly burglarized by Jewish settlers. Was this burglary motivated by racism? Mohammed Mahmadi, 29, left his restaurant job in...

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Curt’s Hebron

Curt’s Hebron

Curtis Bell, President of Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East, spoke to the First Unitarian Church’s Department of Social Justice about his two months in Hebron and what he learned about the Palestinian experience under Israeli occupation. Video...

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Virginia Tech GPSS

Virginia Tech GPSS

The Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS) at Virginia Tech passed a resolution in October 2021 demanding that the University’s administration enact an academic boycott of Israel and institutions “complicit in maintaining the Israeli occupation.” The...

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The Return of the Pogrom in Hawara

The Return of the Pogrom in Hawara

On February 26, 2023, more than 400 Jewish settlers terrorized the Palestinian village of Hawara in the Occupied West Bank. For hours, the settlers set buildings and cars on fire and threw stones at inhabitants and their homes. The Israeli police and military forces...

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Christians Against Israeli Violence

Christians Against Israeli Violence

Christians Against Israeli Violence: Churches Call to End U.S. Military Aid to Israel On March 10, 2023, ten U.S.-based Christian groups published a letter directed to President Biden and Congress calling on the end of U.S. military aid to Israel. The letter reads:...

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Fareed Khan

Fareed Khan

Fareed Khan is the founder of the anti-racist activism group Canadians United Against Hate/Canadiens Unis Contre la Haine. He is also the Director of Advocacy and Media Relations and the co-founder of the Rohingya Human Rights Network. In the letter shared below, Khan...

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Tom Freudenheim

Tom Freudenheim

Tom Freudenheim is a Jewish American who blogs at www.freudenheim.com. He recently wrote a letter to the Promised Land Museum, which reads as follows: “I’m devoted to the Forward, so when I read the article about you I was puzzled as to why I hadn’t known about you...

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Judaism on Our Own Terms

Judaism on Our Own Terms

Judaism on Our Own Terms (JOOOT, formerly Open Hillel) is a network of ideologically diverse Jewish students and student groups which aim to share resources across North American campuses. The resources are shared through guidebooks and zines, both of which can be...

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Friends of Sabeel North America

Friends of Sabeel North America

Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA) is a Christian organization that seeks peace and justice in the Holy Land and liberation in Palestine through education, advocacy, and nonviolent action. FOSNA promotes the vision of Sabeel (meaning “the way” in Arabic), which...

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Jewish Settlements Archival Project

Jewish Settlements Archival Project

Title: Jewish Settlements Archival Project, Taub Center for Israel Studies, New York University. The Taub Center for Israel Studies at New York University has been working on a project which maps and catalogs all available historical data relating to Israeli...

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Amnesty International Apartheid Report on Israel

Amnesty International Apartheid Report on Israel

Amnesty International (AI), the world’s largest human rights organization, released a report in 2022 titled “Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity.” The report details AI’s investigation into Israel’s treatment...

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Barcelona Suspended Institutional Ties with Israel

Barcelona Suspended Institutional Ties with Israel

In February 2023, the mayor of Barcelona, Spain announced that the city temporarily suspended all institutional ties with Israel. Barcelona equally froze its 25-year-old twinning agreement with the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau wrote a letter to...

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Nadia Saah

Nadia Saah

Nadia Saah is a board member of Jewish Currents. In this moving photo essay, she shares her family’s story of their harrowing experiences during the 1948 Nakba (the Catastrophe). The essay compiles 11 more stories from other Palestinians on the 75th anniversary of the...

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Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is a renown Jewish American academic, linguist, and political activist. Chomsky is a prolific writer who has published many books and articles and has become a public intellectual. In a 2023 interview with Al Jazeera about Palestine and Israel, Chomsky...

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George Marx

George Marx

George Marx is a Jewish blogger who writes on his websites www.GeorgeMarx.org, www.WorkingTowardsEndingRacism.org, www.EndThePatriarchy.org, and www.CaringWhitemen.com. In one blog post titled “Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, American Muslims for Palestine and Respect,” Marx...

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Amira Hass

Amira Hass

Amira Hass is a Jewish Israeli journalist and author. Her book Drinking in the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege (2000) describes her experience as the first Israeli journalist to move to Gaza in 1993. Her articles about Israel-Palestine are published...

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U.S. Rabbinical and Cantorial Students

U.S. Rabbinical and Cantorial Students

Rabbinic Students' Letter Nearly 90 American rabbinical and cantorial students wrote a public letter in 2021 calling on the Jewish American community to hold Israel accountable for its human rights abuses. The group represents a large percentage from non-Orthodox...

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Torah Jews

Torah Jews

Torah Jews is a website whose mission is to clarify the distinction between Zionism and Judaism. The website is rooted in the Torah and explains how traditional Judaism states that the Jewish people are “in exile by Divine Decree and may emerge from exile solely via...

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Self-Hating Jew?

Self-Hating Jew?

Proudly Jewish comedian and podcaster Jonathan Randall explains why he does not believe that criticizing Israel makes him self-hating. Video title: Being a Jew against Palestinian oppression doesn’t make you a “self-hating Jew” Created by: Jonathan Randall Video...

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Virtual Delegations

Virtual Delegations

Eyewitness Palestine offers immersive in-person and virtual journeys in Palestine/Israel to create transformative experiences, foster connections, and build movements. Virtual tours are recorded and can be purchased at this link. Video title: Virtual Delegations...

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VJP Intern Amber Smith

VJP Intern Amber Smith

Amber Smith is a member for Voices for Justice in Palestine (VJP) who traveled to Palestine-Israel in October 2022 and shared what she witnessed in a VJP e-newsletter. She described the heavy militarization of the Israeli occupation forces, the way good quality water...

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Shatzi Weisberger

Shatzi Weisberger

Shatzi Weisberger was a Jewish American death educator, nurse, and activist. She advocated for justice through the civil rights movement, the anti-nuclear movement, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, Black Lives Matter, and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP). She became a...

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Rabbi Barry H. Block

Rabbi Barry H. Block

Rabbi Barry H. Block serves the Congregation B’nai Israel in Little Rock, Arkansas and has served as Board member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. He is also editor of The Mussar Torah Commentary: A Spiritual Path to Living a Meaningful and Ethical Life...

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Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz was a Jewish writer, political activist, and the founding executive director of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice. In her book The colors of Jews: racial politics and radical diasporism (2007), she described radical diasporism—where Jews...

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Trevor Young

Trevor Young

University of Toronto’s Trevor Young is the Dean of the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, the Vice-Provost of Relations with Health Care Institutions, the Professor and former Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, a Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and...

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Wolfe Erlichman

Wolfe Erlichman

Wolfe Erlichman is a member of Independent Jewish Voices Canada. In a public statement, he criticizes the way the Holocaust has been used to promote a commitment to Israel instead of promoting universal human rights. He calls on Jewish Canadians to stand up for...

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Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau Ballano

Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau Ballano

Ada Colau Ballano is a Spanish activist and politician who assumed office as Mayor of Barcelona in 2015. Barcelona had been twinned with Tel Aviv and Gaza for 25 years until Ada Colau announced that the city would suspend its relationship until Israel ended the...

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Steve Berman

Steve Berman

Steve Berman has been involved with several Jewish communal organizations and works in the commercial real estate business. He was formerly on the Board of Councilors for The Carter Center. In a 2023 op-ed for Forward, Berman described his relationship to Israel and...

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Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf is a Jewish American public personality, author of eleven books, and journalist. In 2014, she described leaving synagogue when what she called an “Unholy War” in Gaza was not addressed. She wrote: “I mourn genocide in Gaza because I am the granddaughter of...

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Gabor Maté

Gabor Maté

In March 2023, Britain’s Prince Harry was interviewed by Gabor Maté about his mental health struggles. Pro-Israel groups called the interview an “inappropriate choice” due to Maté’s vocal support of Palestinian rights, associating both Maté and Prince Harry with...

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Jalal Abukhater

Jalal Abukhater

Jalal Abukhater is a Palestinian writer and political scientist based in Jerusalem. In a February 2023 op-ed for The Guardian titled “There’s no cycle of violence in Jerusalem—only Israel’s lethal oppression of my people,” Abukhater describes the power imbalance of...

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+972 Magazine “The Landline”

+972 Magazine “The Landline”

+972 Magazine is an online, nonprofit magazine run by independent Palestinian and Israeli journalists. The magazine spotlights overlooked communities who struggle against occupation and apartheid. “The Landline” is their weekly newsletter. In a May 2023 newsletter,...

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