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...
Christians Against Israeli Violence: Churches Call to End U.S. Military Aid to Israel On March 10, 2023, ten U.S.-based Christian groups published a letter directed to President Biden and Congress calling on the end of U.S. military aid to Israel. The letter reads:...
Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA) is a Christian organization that seeks peace and justice in the Holy Land and liberation in Palestine through education, advocacy, and nonviolent action. FOSNA promotes the vision of Sabeel (meaning “the way” in Arabic), which...
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...
Amnesty International (AI), the world’s largest human rights organization, released a report in 2022 titled “Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity.” The report details AI’s investigation into Israel’s treatment...
In February 2023, the mayor of Barcelona, Spain announced that the city temporarily suspended all institutional ties with Israel. Barcelona equally froze its 25-year-old twinning agreement with the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau wrote a letter to...
Noam Chomsky is a renown Jewish American academic, linguist, and political activist. Chomsky is a prolific writer who has published many books and articles and has become a public intellectual. In a 2023 interview with Al Jazeera about Palestine and Israel, Chomsky...
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...
Rabbinic Students' Letter Nearly 90 American rabbinical and cantorial students wrote a public letter in 2021 calling on the Jewish American community to hold Israel accountable for its human rights abuses. The group represents a large percentage from non-Orthodox...
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...
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...