by nikki-admin | Mar 23, 2023 | Historical
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....
by nikki-admin | Feb 7, 2023 | Historical
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...
by nikki-admin | Dec 31, 2022 | Historical
Israel was founded on the idea that 20th century Jewish settlers arrived in the Holy Land and, through hard work, transformed its empty swamps into fertile gardens. Early Zionist thinker Israel Zangwill wrote in 1901: “Palestine is a country without a people; the Jews...
by nikki-admin | Sep 17, 2022 | Historical
Remembering Muslims Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust Mohammad Mesli barely knew his father–he died in 1961 when Mohammad was only a young boy. But a few years ago, he found a suitcase filled with documentation of his father’s secret life...
by nikki-admin | Jun 23, 2022 | Historical
U.S. Media Coverage of Israel-Palestine Conflict Is Changing In a recent article in The Washington Post in May 2021, Eva Najjar, a UX designer currently based in Haifa but from the Palestinian village of Rama, wrote about the attacks in Gaza that started on May 9th....
by nikki-admin | May 1, 2022 | Historical
Ten Myths about Israel: A Book Review “Historical disinformation, even of the most recent past, can do tremendous harm,” Israeli historian and University of Exeter professor Ilan Pappé writes in his latest book, Ten Myths About Israel, published by Verso...
In 2018, Wikimedia Israel gathered archival images from the early 20th century with expired copyrights and published about 28,000 images to Wikipedia’s platform for free, public access. […]
Rami Elhanan is a 7th generation Jerusalemite who describes himself as Jewish, Israeli, and “before everything else […] a human being.” In 1997, his 14-year-old daughter was […]
Breaking the Silence is an organization of veterans who served in the Israeli military and share what they have witnessed and experienced in the Occupied Territories. Read, […]
Justin Sadowsky is a civil rights attorney for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Legal Defense Fund. Sadowsky has played a key role in fighting the United […]
Suzanne Weiss is a member of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East. She gave a speech at the 2022 Al Quds rally for Palestine, […]
Ayelet is a 16-year-old trans teen and activist in the Mesarvot network, an Israeli organization that supports war resisters and political objectors. She wrote a letter to […]
Judy Haiven is a Jewish writer and activist living in Nova Scotia. She was formerly a professor of business and management at Saint Mary’s University. Haiven is […]
Sari Bashi is a Jewish Israeli lawyer and Program Director at Human Rights Watch. In her book Maqluba – Upside Down Love (in Hebrew), she describes how […]
Etan Nechin is an Israeli journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, Haaretz, Vice, Jacobin, Jewish Currents, and more. He is the online editor […]
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield are the Jewish American founders of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. The duo came under fire in 2021 when they announced they […]