Many interested in Israel-Palestine have asked the question: “Where is the Palestinian Mandela?” But Nelson Mandela’s grandson Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela has argued that this question emerges from a distortion of his grandfather’s legacy. Who Was Nelson Mandela?...
Ilan Baruch and Dr. Alon Liel are two former Israeli ambassadors to South Africa. Dr. Liel also served as the Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Baruch and Liel wrote an op-ed for GroundUp arguing that Israel’s occupation is an apartheid...
Investigative journalist David Sheen spoke on December 12, 2018 at De Balie in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He describes how Israeli political leaders and parties support apartheid in Israel/Palestine. Hear his analysis here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9h1xoOY63Q....
B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, is an independent, non-partisan organization in Jerusalem funded solely by donations which documents and publishes research, statistics, testimonies, and reports on Israel’s human...
Benjamin Moser is a world-renown writer: he was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for his book Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for his latest book Sontag: Her Life and Work. He’s also a Jewish...
With a comparison between apartheid South Africa and the Israel/Palestine conflict, this documentary traces the future of one conflict from the past of another. Weaving the history of apartheid into the complex issues facing Israelis and Palestinians, it highlights...
Former Ambassadors Call It Like They See It Apartheid in Israel is controversial when it comes to contemporary discussions of the country. Apartheid is a system of rule that is inherently unequal and discriminatory anathema to a free and democratic society. Systematic...
Human Rights Watch (HRW), a well-respected nonprofit organization which investigates and documents abuse happening around the world, released this report in 2021 which evaluates Israel across three categories: crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution, its...
Michael Sfard is an Israeli human rights lawyer and political activist. He is also the legal advisor to Yesh Din, an Israel-based nonprofit organization that works to protect the human rights of Palestinians living under Israeli military occupation. Established in...
Raised in South Africa, Rabbi Brain Walt has written about how his upbringing makes it impossible for him to “ignore Israel is an apartheid state.” He has also written in-depth about his spiritual and ethical journey to find a Judaism without Zionism. The...
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 letter—addressed to Acting Dean Patricia Houston and signed by 45 Faculty...
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 cars on fire and threw stones at inhabitants and their homes. The Israeli police and military forces...
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:...
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...
Tom Freudenheim is a Jewish American who blogs at www.freudenheim.com. He recently wrote a letter to the Promised Land Museum, which reads as follows: “I’m devoted to the Forward, so when I read the article about you I was puzzled as to why I hadn’t known about you...