Take it from the voter herself: Zohran Mamdani is a mensch. Activist and professor Rosalind Petchesky defends NYC Mayor Mamdani against Islamophobic and fearmongering attacks through her personal experience serving on his campaign and facing arrest with him for...
From Local Activism to a Global Rallying Cry In the shadow of Operation Cast Lead, the three-week war in Gaza in late 2008–2009, a group of Jewish peace activists came together to say to the Israeli Government “No. Not in our name.” Specifically, they have called for...
Renowned Jewish voice and activist Peter Beinart writes about an alternative narrative where Israeli Jews have the right to equality, not supremacy, and Palestinian and Jewish safety are not mutually exclusive but intertwined. In Being Jewish After the Destruction of...
Antony Loewenstein is an independent journalist, photographer, blogger, and Australian best-selling author and filmmaker. Lowenstein has written books, such as The Palestinian Laboratory, My Israel Question and Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe....
Yair Golan, former IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Maj. Gen., is an Israeli politician and leader of the Israeli Labor (Democratic) Party as well as a reserve major general in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) -- and an outspoken critic of the War in Gaza. In a May 2025...
Younger Jews Embrace Solidarity with Palestinian Families Younger Jews are increasingly speaking out against Israel and for Palestinian families’ human rights. In doing so, they are adhering to lessons Jewish values teach every generation – to stand with oppressed...
Jews Around the World Speak Out Against Israel’s Actions Jews around the world are voicing opposition to Israel and the country's aggressive military tactics. Journalists, activists, political staffers, and even retired IDF generals are calling out the dehumanization...
The Afrikaans word “apartheid”, which translates to “separateness”, entered the realm of international law in response to racist regimes in South Africa. Apartheid refers to an institutionalized system of segregation based on race. The 1973 United Nations...
Israelis Against Apartheid is a group of more than 1,500 Jewish Israeli citizens who seek to end Israel’s apartheid system. They have released several open letters since October 2023 calling for the immediate end of Israel’s assault on Gaza, including the October 18,...
Jewish students in Columbia were amongst the first to speak out in 2024 against Israel’s actions in the Gaza strip. In April 2024, on the first night of Passover, the students held a Seder dinner at the pro-Palestine and anti-genocide encampments on their campus. At...
“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 have always been against this.” —Omar El Akkad, Journalist Why We Record: Defying Fragmentation and Erasure in...
“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, recently toured the West Bank, after which he delivered a sobering assessment of the mistreatment of Palestinian...
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 in the displacement of Israel’s Arab residents during the...
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. He has focused extensively on the Israeli far-right, including the...
In 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; he threw out the traditional breakdown of Israeli politics in favor of a new alignment...