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...
Promised Land Museum Founder and physician, Steve Feldman, released a new book, Bent Toward Justice. The book tells the story of a Polish Jew in America who is confronted with an internal upheaval that challenges his beliefs about Palestinians being the enemy of the...
Research Reveals How Palestinian People Became Refugees How was it that Palestinian families became refugees? Noga Kadman’s book, Erased from Space and Consciousness: Israel and the Depopulated Palestinian Villages of 1948 (2015), answers this question with striking...
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....
Judaism on Our Own Terms (JOOOT, formerly Open Hillel) is a network of ideologically diverse Jewish students and student groups which aim to share resources across North American campuses. The resources are shared through guidebooks and zines, both of which can be...
The New York City chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) compiled thirteen testimonies by diverse JVP-NYC members and a set of discussion questions in the 2017 publication Confronting Zionism: A Collection of Personal Stories. The group shares their hope that the...
Dr. Mazin Butros Qumsiyeh is a Palestinian scientist and author who teaches at Bethlehem University. He founded the University’s Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability, and he is the founder and director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History....
“Historical disinformation, even of the most recent past, can do tremendous harm,” Israeli historian and University of Exeter professor Ilan Pappé writes in his latest book, Ten Myths About Israel, published by Verso Books in 2017. Pappé is an Israeli Jewish historian...
Khirbet Khizeh is a brief, fictional, 1949 novella by Israeli writer S. Yizhar about the violent expulsion of Palestinian villagers by the Israeli army. Considered a high point in Hebrew literature, it was published just months the author fought in the 1948...
In his debut book Blood and Religion, award-winning journalist Jonathan Cook discusses how and why Israel created a fortress state through the West Bank wall and Gaza’s separation: to counter the growing Palestinian population with a Jewish-only state. The book can be...
“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...