Palestinian Children's Artwork Rachel Accurso, the acclaimed early childhood educator and YouTuber known as Ms. Rachel, presented an exhibition and sale of artworks by children from Gaza in New York City called Colors that Survived. The one-day (January 13, 2026)...
Electronic Intifada Executive Director, Ali Abunimah, writes a poignant and stirring letter that chronicles daily life in Gaza under the Israeli occupation. He implores readers to see the images that “Israel has sealed off from international media,” explaining that...
Filmmaker Maurice Jacobson spent two years living in Gaza and has now returned to the United States to dispel myths and showcase the reality of life in Gaza through his documentary “We All Live in Gaza.” His documentary, which will be completed in Winter 2026, was...
New York-based peace group, Jews Say No, rallied 700 activists from more than 30 peace organizations in March 2010 to stand in opposition to the $1,000-per-plate fundraiser dinner for Friends of the IDF at the Waldorf-Astoria on Park Avenue. Starting by reading the...
The United Nations Committee Against Torture (UN CAT) published its findings on the Israeli government’s abuses against Palestinian detainees, calling the independent findings “war crimes, crimes against humanity, and [part of] the actus reus of genocide.” The report...
Renowned Jewish voice and activist Peter Beinart writes about an alternative narrative where Israeli Jews have the right to equality, not supremacy, and Palestinian and Jewish safety are not mutually exclusive but intertwined. In Being Jewish After the Destruction of...
Simone Zimmerman is a Jewish American activist known for her advocacy against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. She co-founded IfNotNow, a movement of young American Jews calling for an end to U.S. support for the occupation and a reexamination of...
Antony Loewenstein is an independent journalist, photographer, blogger, and Australian best-selling author and filmmaker. Lowenstein has written books, such as The Palestinian Laboratory, My Israel Question and Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe....
Yair Golan, former IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Maj. Gen., is an Israeli politician and leader of the Israeli Labor (Democratic) Party as well as a reserve major general in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) -- and an outspoken critic of the War in Gaza. In a May 2025...
In this January 10, 2025 blog post, Rabbi Brant Rosen connects the week’s Torah portion, Parshat Vayechi, to the legacy of Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime Minister assassinated following the Oslo Peace Accords, and the entirety of the Zionist enterprise. Although...
“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...