False claims of anti-Semitism?
Duke University’s student newspaper The Chronicle published a November 16, 2021 letter by Duke Students for Justice in Palestine saying the foundation of Israel rests upon the expropriation of Palestinian land and displacement of the Palestinian people. In a response...
Lea Tsemel
Lea Tsemel is a Jewish Israeli human rights lawyer. She has represented political prisoners for five decades and was the subject of the 2019 movie Advocate (reviewed in the NY Times). Tsemel spoke on CANADA TALKS ISRAEL PALESTINE. She...
Israeli Apartheid
Writing in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Israeli author Gideon Levy points out inequities in how Jews and non-Jews are treated under Israeli law. “To put it briefly: After the Law of Return, this is the law that exemplifies more than any other the...
Sara Roy
Writing in CounterPunch, Sarah Roy, a Jew and child of Holocaust survivors, pens a strongly worded letter to President Biden: https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/05/21/a-letter-to-biden-on-gaza/. She asks why Biden isn’t doing more to stop the...- Why War? The Formation of Israel in Palestine
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 - 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… Read more: A Burglary Motivated by Racism - 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… Read more: Curt’s Hebron - Virginia Tech GPSS
- Jerusalem Christian Church Leaders Speak Up
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 - Antisemitism or Anti-Palestinian Racism at Temerty?
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? - 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… Read more: The Return of the Pogrom in Hawara - 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… Read more: Christians Against Israeli Violence - Fareed Khan
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