The Middle East Studies Association Releases a Statement on Palestine and Israel
The Board of Directors of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) of North America released a statement on Palestine and Israel shortly after the events of October 7, 2023. They condemn Israeli forces’ ongoing attack on the Gaza strip while acknowledging that Hamas...
Colonization of Palestine: Dispelling Myths about the 1948 Nakba
Doctor Writes Book: History of the Colonization of Palestine Two common statements used to justify the Nakba of 1948 – Palestine was a “Land without a People for a People without a Land” and “Zionists made the Desert Bloom” – are address and explained in Dr. Jamil A....
Israel Designates Six Organizations as Terrorist Groups
Jewish Voices Respond to Protect Human Rights Israel has declared six Palestinian organizations as terrorist groups. The groups include civil society associations, human rights institutions, and unions operating in the West Bank. Some religious leaders, politicians,...
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:...
Israeli Air Force Pilot Refuses to Commit War Crimes
Yonotan Shapira is a Former Captain of the Israeli Air Force (IAF) who has since become an outspoken activist and supporter of the call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. Shapira served in the IAF for 11 years as an officer in the Black Hawk...- Why We Record: Defying Fragmentation and Erasure in Palestine
“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will… Read more: Why We Record: Defying Fragmentation and Erasure in Palestine - Pardo: Ashamed to Be Jewish
“What I saw today made me feel ashamed to be Jewish” – Don Pardo, former Director of Mossad Tamir Pardo, the former Director of Mossad from 2011–2016,… Read more: Pardo: Ashamed to Be Jewish - IDF Intelligence Report Contradicts Israeli Narrative
The Akevot Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research published a previously suppressed IDF intelligence report dating from 1948. This report contradicts the Israeli narrative about the major factor… Read more: IDF Intelligence Report Contradicts Israeli Narrative - David Sheen: Investigative Journalist
David Sheen is a Toronto-born, Haifa-based investigative journalist, who has worked for dozens of local, regional, and international news outlets, from Haaretz to Electronic Intifada, since 2010.… Read more: David Sheen: Investigative Journalist - Israeli Politics Decoded: a talk by David SheenIn the Knesset, who is left-wing? Who is right-wing? Are these terms even useful? Investigative journalist, David Sheen, gave a series of lectures for an international audience;… Read more: Israeli Politics Decoded: a talk by David Sheen
- No Other Land Wins Oscar for Best Documentary Feature
Documentary Chronicles Destruction of Palestinian Community The 2024 Documentary, No Other Land, won the United States’s highest film award for a documentary feature, netting an Oscar at… Read more: No Other Land Wins Oscar for Best Documentary Feature - Burying the Nakba
Burying the Nakba features an investigative report by Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz that uncovered a vast conspiracy by the Israeli government to conceal evidence of the Nakba –… Read more: Burying the Nakba - Jews Step Forward: A Documentary
Jews Step Forward is a confessional documentary featuring 24 Jewish activists who “deconstruct Zionism” against a backdrop of searing, on-the-ground images and footage of atrocities perpetrated by Jewish… Read more: Jews Step Forward: A Documentary - Sykes-Picot Proposal
In May 1916, British diplomat Mark Sykes and French diplomat François Georges-Picot concluded a secret agreement partitioning much of the Arab lands of the Ottoman Empire into… Read more: Sykes-Picot Proposal - Balfour Declaration
The British Government issued the Balfour Declaration in 1917 — a public statement expressing support for a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine. This marked… Read more: Balfour Declaration