Self-Hating Jew?

Self-Hating Jew?

Proudly Jewish comedian and podcaster Jonathan Randall explains why he does not believe that criticizing Israel makes him self-hating. Video title: Being a Jew against Palestinian oppression doesn’t make you a “self-hating Jew” Created by: Jonathan Randall Video...

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+972 Magazine “The Landline”

+972 Magazine “The Landline”

+972 Magazine is an online, nonprofit magazine run by independent Palestinian and Israeli journalists. The magazine spotlights overlooked communities who struggle against occupation and apartheid. “The Landline” is their weekly newsletter. In a May 2023 newsletter,...

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Rami Elhanan

Rami Elhanan

Rami Elhanan is a 7th generation Jerusalemite who describes himself as Jewish, Israeli, and “before everything else […] a human being.” In 1997, his 14-year-old daughter was killed by Palestinian suicide bombers. He shared his story and how he was able to find peace...

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Ayelet

Ayelet

Ayelet is a 16-year-old trans teen and activist in the Mesarvot network, an Israeli organization that supports war resisters and political objectors. She wrote a letter to the Refuser Solidarity Network to share her accounts of Israel’s pinkwashing (displaying...

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Sari Bashi

Sari Bashi

Sari Bashi is a Jewish Israeli lawyer and Program Director at Human Rights Watch. In her book Maqluba – Upside Down Love (in Hebrew), she describes how she met and fell in love with her Palestinian husband. They are currently raising their children in the West Bank....

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Parents Circle – Families Forum

Parents Circle – Families Forum

The Parents Circle – Families Forum (PCFF) is a joint Israeli-Palestinian organization founded in 1995 composed of over 600 families who have lost an immediate family member to the ongoing conflict. This grassroots organization promotes reconciliation in order to...

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Jewish Voice for Peace

Jewish Voice for Peace

Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) is national organization composed of Jewish Americans and allies who “support full equality for Palestinians and Jewish Israelis grounded in international law and universal principles of human rights.” While JVP is a Jewish faith-based...

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Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn

Playwright and actor Wallace Shawn, best known for his role as Vizzini in The Princess Bride, translated an Anti-Defamation League (ADL) ad that blamed Palestinians for Israel’s mass slaughter of Gazan children. The ad featured and endorsed a statement from the former...

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Tantura Women, Children, Elderly

Tantura Women, Children, Elderly

The expulsion of Tantura women, children, and elderly from Furaydis to Jordan as the Red Cross supervises June 1948 Courtesy of Israel State Archives from Ben Rothenberg Collection Via Forward.com

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A Burglary Motivated by Racism

A Burglary Motivated by Racism

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...

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Curt’s Hebron

Curt’s Hebron

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...

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Virginia Tech GPSS

Virginia Tech GPSS

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...

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