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...
Award-winning journalist Jonathan Cook argues that the chaos in the Middle East is not an accident but is the end goal for Israel and American neocons. His book Israel and the Clash of Civilizations sheds light on inter-related geopolitical issues in the region, from...
Noga Kadman’s book Erased from Space and Consciousness: Israel and the Depopulated Palestinian Villages of 1948 uses official archives, kibbutz publications, and field research to reconstruct the history of Arab erasure in 418 depopulated villages. In an interview...
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...
Historian Adam Raz wrote the book Looting of Arab Property in the War of Independence, published in Hebrew in 2020 by Israeli publishing house Carmel in association with the Akevot Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research. In the book, Raz uncovers how...
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...
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...
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...
In 2000, the heads of Jerusalem churches wrote a letter to the leaders at Camp David as they decided the status of Jerusalem. In 2017, these patriarchs once again wrote a letter, but this time it was directed to U.S. President Donald Trump. Jerusalem Christian church...
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...