Nick Corbishley is a writer and journalist based in Barcelona who blogs on the website Naked Capitalism. In one post, he writes about Columbian President Gustavo Petro’s refusal to condemn Hamas and its impact on Columbia’s relationship with Israel. Nick points out...
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...
Ada Colau Ballano is a Spanish activist and politician who assumed office as Mayor of Barcelona in 2015. Barcelona had been twinned with Tel Aviv and Gaza for 25 years until Ada Colau announced that the city would suspend its relationship until Israel ended the...
Interview with Dr. Burhan Ghanayem, Board Chair of Voices for Justice in Palestine Burhan traveled to the Occupied Palestinian West Bank from late September to mid-October 2022. The interview has been edited for clarity. The Interviewer is Rev. J. Mark Davidson,...
British playwright Caryl Churchill was awarded the European Drama Prize in April 2022 only for the award to be rescinded in October in retaliation for Churchill’s continued support of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. More than 170 actors,...
“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...