Writer Robert Rosenthal, publisher of The Progressive Jew, breaks down the powerful myths that the Israeli government and allied organizations use to deny Palestinian people agency and keep Jewish supporters uninformed as to the reality of Palestinian suffering. He...
“Israel is an ethno-democracy. A democracy for Jews only.” Those were the words that stood out to Professor Emerita Hasia Dinar on her journey of questioning and rupture with her childhood faith she had placed in the state of Israel. In her confessional video,...
Doctor Writes Book: History of the Colonization of Palestine Two common statements used to justify the Nakba of 1948 – Palestine was a “Land without a People for a People without a Land” and “Zionists made the Desert Bloom” – are address and explained in Dr. Jamil A....
Jacob Nammar is a Palestinian author who shares his memories of pre-1948 Palestine and the Nakba in his book Born in Jerusalem, Born Palestinian. In this video, he describes how after his family was expelled from their home and forced into an armed “open prison zone”...
Khaled Elgindy is a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute (MEI) and director of the MEI program on Palestine and Israeli-Palestinian Affairs. He is the author of the book Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump (2019). Elgindy has served...
In Breakthrough: Transforming Fear Into Compassion, Richard Forer researches and examines the most common arguments from both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict. He shows that “the real enemy is the unexamined mind that projects its suffering onto the other.”...
Wake Up and Reclaim Your Humanity shares the author’s spiritual awakening that transformed him from a staunch supporter of Israel to a person who gained clarity on the roots of suffering in the region. Richard Forer encourages the reader to examine historical...
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...
“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...