Rabbi Miriam Grossman

Rabbi Miriam Grossman

Rabbi Miriam Grossman of the Kolot Chayeinu/Voices of Our Lives congregation in Brooklyn, New York, is an educator and organizer who leads through Jewish ritual. She teaches that following a Jewish theology means protecting the human rights of all people, including...

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My Name Is Rachel Corrie

My Name Is Rachel Corrie

Israel Social TV interviews the director and actors of the play “My Name is Rachel Corrie.” The play is based on American activist Rachel Corrie’s diary and takes place among the resistance movement to Israel’s home demolitions of 2003. The video is in Hebrew with...

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Inside Palestine Refugee Camps

Inside Palestine Refugee Camps

Journalist Abby Martin shows two of the most attacked refugee camps in the West Bank: Balata and Aida camps. She interviews Palestinian refugees in these camps to understand their perspectives. Video title: Empire Files: Inside Palestine’s Refugee CampsCreated by:...

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Palestinians Throwing Rocks in Protest

Palestinians Throwing Rocks in Protest

Many argue that Palestinians represent a grave threat to Israelis. This is a myth. Palestinian civilians experience systemic oppression by living under Israel’s military occupation. Warfare between the two parties is asymmetrical. When a Palestinian civilian throws a...

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Door Keys Symbolize the Right to Return

Door Keys Symbolize the Right to Return

Many Palestinian refugees who were forced to leave their homes in 1948 and 1967 still hold their keys. The key has become an important symbol of the Nakba and the never-ending hope to return home. Feature photo: Palestinian man who fled his home in 1948 holding his...

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Conquering Land in 1967

Conquering Land in 1967

The 1967 Six-Day War: A War of Self-Defense? The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs describes the 1967 Six-Day War—in which Israel captured and occupied East Jerusalem, West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, and Sinai Peninsula—as “a war of self-defense” and a war in...

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The Separation Wall

The Separation Wall

Israel began constructing the Separation Wall in 2002 as a security measure to protect Israelis against “terrorism.” However, the International Court of Justice, at the request of the United Nations, declared that the wall is illegal for the following reasons: it is...

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Where Is the Palestinian Mandela?

Where Is the Palestinian Mandela?

Many interested in Israel-Palestine have asked the question: “Where is the Palestinian Mandela?” But Nelson Mandela’s grandson Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela has argued that this question emerges from a distortion of his grandfather’s legacy.  Who Was Nelson Mandela?...

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Palestine Open Maps

Palestine Open Maps

Palestine Open Maps (POM) is a platform that uses mapping technologies in collaboration with researchers to showcase visual stories of the geographical transformation of historic Palestine over the last 70+ years. The project combines 1940s British Mandate of...

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Rachel Tetrault

Rachel Tetrault

Rachel Tetrault is a community organizer and campaigner who wrote a letter to Straight.com about Vancouver’s choice to adopt a contentious antisemitism definition. In the letter, Tetrault shares about her Jewish upbringing and facing Israel’s racism against...

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Anna Baltzer

Anna Baltzer

Anna Baltzer is a Jewish American award-winning speaker and organizer. She described her observations visiting the West Bank in a book Witness in Palestine: a Jewish Woman in the Occupied Territories and has toured the world presenting her experiences to more than 500...

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