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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Gideon Levy

Gideon Levy

Gideon Levy is an award-winning Israeli journalist and author, best known for writing opinion pieces and a weekly column in the Haaretz newspaper. His book, The Punishment of Gaza, uncovers how Israel’s occupation of Palestine has shown its utmost brutality in Gaza. ...

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Daphna Levit

Daphna Levit

Daphna Levit, a writer who was born in Israel and served in the army, is co-author of Israeli Rejectionism: A Hidden Agenda in the Middle East Peace Process (2011) and Wrestling with Zionism: Jewish Voices of Dissent (2020), which shares a chronology of Jewish voices...

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Denis Goldberg

Denis Goldberg

Denis Goldberg was a Jewish, South African, anti-apartheid activist accused alongside Nelson Mandela in the Rivonia Trial and imprisoned for 22 years. Goldberg became a vocal critic of Israel and a supporter of the Palestinian cause, saying: “There is no doubt in my...

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Gideon Levy

Gideon Levy

Gideon Levy is a columnist for the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz. In this video, Israeli journalist Gideon Levy argues that Israel is on its way to becoming a fascist state. Read more about Gideon Levy at the Promised Land Museum. You can see our previous post on Gideon...

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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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The Return of the Pogrom in Hawara

The Return of the Pogrom in Hawara

On February 26, 2023, more than 400 Jewish settlers terrorized the Palestinian village of Hawara in the Occupied West Bank. For hours, the settlers set buildings and cars on fire and threw stones at inhabitants and their homes. The Israeli police and military forces...

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