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...
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...
U.S. Congress member Kathy Manning (D-NC) visited Sderot with an Israeli tour and described her fear of Gazan rockets. If Americans Knew editor and writer Kathryn Shihadah made a video response to educating Manning on the history and context of Gaza and Sderot. Video...
Yonotan Shapira is a Former Captain of the Israeli Air Force (IAF) who has since become an outspoken activist and supporter of the call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. Shapira served in the IAF for 11 years as an officer in the Black Hawk...
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...
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...
Photographers joined the struggle in 2005 to stop Israel from building the West Bank occupation wall in the Palestinian town of Bil’in. These photographers then formed a group called Activestills, whose work has become a vital source of documentation about Israel’s...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In 2000, the heads of Jerusalem churches wrote a letter to the leaders at Camp David as they decided the status of Jerusalem. In 2017, these patriarchs once again wrote a letter, but this time it was directed to U.S. President Donald Trump. Jerusalem Christian church...
Controversy fell upon the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto in 2022 as debate swirled between accusations of antisemitism and anti-Palestinian racism. A confidential letter—addressed to Acting Dean Patricia Houston and signed by 45 Faculty...