From Local Activism to a Global Rallying Cry In the shadow of Operation Cast Lead, the three-week war in Gaza in late 2008–2009, a group of Jewish peace activists came together to say to the Israeli Government “No. Not in our name.” Specifically, they have called for...
Qaqun was a Palestinian village once located near the city of Tulkarm in the West Bank. It is surrounded by natural wonders like Mount Nablus and the Sharon Plain and had once been inhabited by mostly Palestinian families. The village of Qaqun, along with hundreds of...
In this video posted by X user @ivan_8848, Israeli veterans talk candidly about the massacres they committed during the 1948 Nakba. This video post shows several elderly Jewish men detailing the forcible removal of Palestinian families from their villages and...
Since October 7, 2023, the world has watched the government of Israel drop more than 6,000 bombs and launch more than 7,000 missiles into the territory of Gaza, causing damage the equivalent of 2 nuclear bombs. The military operation is in retaliation to a Hamas-led...
Promised Land Museum Curator Dr. Steven Feldman recently spoke with Peter Larson of Canada Talks Israel Palestine (CTIP) about rethinking the Israeli-Palestinian relationship. “American Jews have been on the front lines of anti-discrimination efforts inside the USA”,...
Ten Myths about Israel: A Book Review "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...
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...
What Does Brennan’s Letter to Biden Mean for Palestinian Statehood? It isn’t every day that a past director of the C.I.A personally writes a letter to the President. In Joe Brennan’s recent article in The New York Times, he asks Joe Biden to help facilitate...
In 1922, the League of Nations held a census of Palestine. In its introductory report, the census takers describe dividing up well-defined quarters to reflect the different religions that cohabitated in the same villages. The data shows 78% of Palestine’s inhabitants...
“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...