Why War? The Formation of Israel in Palestine

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 Gaza, causing damage the equivalent of 2 nuclear bombs. The military operation is in retaliation to a Hamas-led...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Why War? The Formation of Israel in Palestine

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 Gaza, causing damage the equivalent of 2 nuclear bombs. The military operation is in retaliation to a Hamas-led...

read more
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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