by nikki-admin | Jul 30, 2023 | Other Voices, Back room
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...
by nikki-admin | Jul 6, 2023 | Other Voices, Back room
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...
by nikki-admin | Jun 4, 2023 | Other Voices, Back room
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...
by nikki-admin | Jun 4, 2023 | Other Voices, Back room
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...
by nikki-admin | Jun 4, 2023 | Other Voices, Back room
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...
by nikki-admin | May 24, 2023 | Other Voices, Back room
Amer Zahr is a Palestinian American comedian, speaker, writer, academic, and adjunct professor of law at University of Detroit-Mercy. Watch his YouTube videos here.
Since October 7, 2023, the world has watched the government of Israel drop more than 6,000 bombs and launch more than 7,000 missiles into the territory of… Read more: Why War? The Formation of Israel in Palestine
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… Read more: A Burglary Motivated by Racism
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… Read more: Curt’s Hebron
In 2000, the heads of Jerusalem churches wrote a letter to the leaders at Camp David as they decided the status of Jerusalem. In 2017, these patriarchs… Read more: Jerusalem Christian Church Leaders Speak Up
Controversy fell upon the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto in 2022 as debate swirled between accusations of antisemitism and anti-Palestinian racism. A confidential… Read more: Antisemitism or Anti-Palestinian Racism at Temerty?
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… Read more: The Return of the Pogrom in Hawara
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… Read more: Christians Against Israeli Violence
