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...
Yonotan Shapira is a Former Captain of the Israeli Air Force (IAF) who has since become an outspoken activist and supporter of the call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. Shapira served in the IAF for 11 years as an officer in the Black Hawk...
Shatzi Weisberger was a Jewish American death educator, nurse, and activist. She advocated for justice through the civil rights movement, the anti-nuclear movement, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, Black Lives Matter, and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP). She became a...
University of Toronto’s Trevor Young is the Dean of the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, the Vice-Provost of Relations with Health Care Institutions, the Professor and former Chair of the Department of Psychiatry, a Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and...
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...
Ada Colau Ballano is a Spanish activist and politician who assumed office as Mayor of Barcelona in 2015. Barcelona had been twinned with Tel Aviv and Gaza for 25 years until Ada Colau announced that the city would suspend its relationship until Israel ended the...
Boycott (2021) is an award-winning documentary by Just Vision that chronicles one of the most consequential U.S. First Amendment battles, during which 35 states passed laws to silence boycotts and nonviolent means of pressuring Israel to end its human rights abuses....
Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA) is a nonsectarian Christian nonprofit organization which strives for peace and justice in Palestine through education, advocacy, and nonviolent action. Sabeel (which means “the way” in Arabic) is an international peace movement...
Suzanne Weiss is a member of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East. She gave a speech at the 2022 Al Quds rally for Palestine, in which she expressed solidarity with the Palestinians who are resisting Israel’s oppression, bombardment, blockades, and...
Etan Nechin is an Israeli journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, Haaretz, Vice, Jacobin, Jewish Currents, and more. He is the online editor of The Bare Life Review: a Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Literature. In a 2020 op-ed for Forward,...
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...
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:...
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...
Tom Freudenheim is a Jewish American who blogs at www.freudenheim.com. He recently wrote a letter to the Promised Land Museum, which reads as follows: “I’m devoted to the Forward, so when I read the article about you I was puzzled as to why I hadn’t known about you...