Fareed Khan is the founder of the anti-racist activism group Canadians United Against Hate/Canadiens Unis Contre la Haine. He is also the Director of Advocacy and Media Relations and the co-founder of the Rohingya Human Rights Network. In the letter shared below, Khan...
The International Jewish Collective for Justice in Palestine (IJCJP) is a coalition of dozens of Jewish groups from around the world. IJCJP was formed in 2022 to share their disagreement with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition...
Wolfe Erlichman is a member of Independent Jewish Voices Canada. In a public statement, he criticizes the way the Holocaust has been used to promote a commitment to Israel instead of promoting universal human rights. He calls on Jewish Canadians to stand up for...
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...
In this French news report, the story of a Muslim Imam who saved Jews from the Holocaust in Nazi-Occupied France is revealed. Learn more about this story at the Promised Land Museum.Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk4a-0aO7ks&ab_channel=ShalamFrVideo...
Voices Across the Divide is a powerful documentary and oral history project exploring the Israeli/Palestinian conflict through rarely heard personal stories. Narrated by Alice Rothchild, an American Jew raised on the tragedies of the Holocaust and the dream of a...
An introduction to daily life in Palestine by eyewitness Anna Baltzer, a staff person at the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights and the granddaughter of Holocaust refugees. This superb and well-organized film is so intimate that it feels like a conversation with the...
Remembering Muslims Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust Mohammad Mesli barely knew his father--he died in 1961 when Mohammad was only a young boy. But a few years ago, he found a suitcase filled with documentation of his father’s secret life as an...
Magician Joshua Jay interviews Werner Reich, author of The Death Camp Magicians. Reich is a magician who learned his first trick as a prisoner at Auschwitz. Reich speaks of the horrors of the death camps and of the Jewish principle of Tikun Olam. Walking the talk,...
As reported in Mondoweiss, David Kattenburg gives his Jewish perspective on the mistreatment of Palestinian families. His view is rooted in being a child of Holocaust survivors. Kattenburg contrasted how his background informed his moral choice in speaking out against...
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...
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...