Amira Hass

Amira Hass

Amira Hass is a Jewish Israeli journalist and author. Her book Drinking in the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege (2000) describes her experience as the first Israeli journalist to move to Gaza in 1993. Her articles about Israel-Palestine are published...

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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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Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau Ballano

Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau Ballano

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...

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Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf is a Jewish American public personality, author of eleven books, and journalist. In 2014, she described leaving synagogue when what she called an “Unholy War” in Gaza was not addressed. She wrote: “I mourn genocide in Gaza because I am the granddaughter of...

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The Punishment of Gaza

The Punishment of Gaza

In The Punishment of Gaza, veteran Israeli journalist Gideon Levy tracks the development of Israel policy between 2005 and 2009. He finds that Israel’s goal is to deny Palestinians the opportunity of forming an independent state; these policies have transformed Gaza...

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Jews Say No!

Jews Say No!

Jews Say No! is a New York City-based group that engages in community education, street theatre, and organizing. The group began during “Operation Cast Lead,” the Israeli attack on Gaza in December/January 2008-09. They gather every month on the Upper West Side of...

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Breaking the Silence

Breaking the Silence

Breaking the Silence is an organization of veterans who served in the Israeli military and share what they have witnessed and experienced in the Occupied Territories with the Israeli public. The organization stimulates public debate about young soldiers facing a...

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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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