“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...
Mark Braverman is the program director for Kairos USA, a Christian group dedicated to taking a “bold, prophetic stand against the unjust policies that oppress Palestinians.” Mark Braverman is a Jewish American with family roots in the Holy Land. Raised in the Jewish...
“Israel is an ethno-democracy. A democracy for Jews only.” Those were the words that stood out to Professor Emerita Hasia Dinar on her journey of questioning and rupture with her childhood faith she had placed in the state of Israel. In her confessional video,...
Younger Jews Embrace Solidarity with Palestinian Families Younger Jews are increasingly speaking out against Israel and for Palestinian families’ human rights. In doing so, they are adhering to lessons Jewish values teach every generation – to stand with oppressed...
The Afrikaans word “apartheid”, which translates to “separateness”, entered the realm of international law in response to racist regimes in South Africa. Apartheid refers to an institutionalized system of segregation based on race. The 1973 United Nations...
Jonathan Glazer, a British film director and screenwriter, recently came under fire for his speech at the Oscars. After winning an award for directing the Holocaust film The Zone of Interest, the Jewish filmmaker discussed the ongoing war in Gaza. He states, “Right...
Since October 2023, nearly 2 million Palestinian people have been displaced within the Gaza strip, many of whom had their homes destroyed by airstrikes from Israel. One video shows the scale of devastation in just one neighborhood in northern Gaza. The video was taken...
Jewish people, communities, and organizations around the world are calling for an end to Israel’s violence against Palestinian people. Since Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has killed more than 26,000 Palestinian men, women, and children while displacing nearly 2 million...
Liberation theology is a Christian theological and social movement that prioritizes the liberation of the oppressed. Coined by Peruvian Roman Catholic priest and theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez in this 1968 lecture “Hacia una teología de la liberación” (“Towards a...
Since October 7, 2023, the world has watched the government of Israel drop more than 6,000 bombs and launch more than 7,000 missiles into the territory of Gaza, causing damage the equivalent of 2 nuclear bombs. The military operation is in retaliation to a Hamas-led...
“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...