Psychoanalyst and trauma expert Ofra Bloch grew up in Israel and has volunteered with Doctors of the World, where she interviewed victims of torture and wrote their affidavits. In her first feature documentary Afterward, Bloch forces herself to confront her own...
Mondoweiss, an independent website devoted to informing readers about developments in Israel/Palestine, reports on young Jews speaking out against the mistreatment of Palestinian families. These young Jews are walking the talk of Jewish and American morality, saying,...
Ami Ayalon is an Israeli politician and the former head of the Shin Bet, Israel’s secret service. In 2019, he spoke at J Street and argued that Israel’s “unjust war” in Palestine will fuel “anti-Semitism around the world.” Ayalon implored American Jews speak up to...
Hedy Epstein (née Wachenheimer), born August 15, 1924 in Freiburg, Germany, was a rights activist and Holocaust survivor. On May 18, 1939, she escaped the horrors that were coming and went to England on a children's transport. She began to opposite Israel’s military...
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,...
California poet Robert Lipton, one of Richmond’s poet laureates, has witnessed violence in both Middle East and in his hometown and engages in anti-occupation work in Israel and the West Bank. He was in Israel and the West Bank with the International Solidarity...
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...
Bonnie Honig is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science at Brown University and author of several books, including Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (Cornell, 1993, Scripps Prize for Best First Book). In an article...
Yesh Gvul (literally, ‘There’s a Limit’) is an Israel political movement started in 1982 to support conscientious objectors to Israel's occupation and wars that are not defensive wars. The movement aims to sway public opinion against wars of choice and against the...
Dr. Ruchama Marton is a psychotherapist, psychiatrist, and the founder of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel. Marton is an unequivocal supporter of human rights. The violence she witnessed during her military service in Israel sparked her anti-militarist advocacy for...
Many interested in Israel-Palestine have asked the question: “Where is the Palestinian Mandela?” But Nelson Mandela’s grandson Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela has argued that this question emerges from a distortion of his grandfather’s legacy. Who Was Nelson Mandela?...
Palestine Open Maps (POM) is a platform that uses mapping technologies in collaboration with researchers to showcase visual stories of the geographical transformation of historic Palestine over the last 70+ years. The project combines 1940s British Mandate of...
Dr. Joshua Shanes, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Arnold Center for Israel Studies at the College of Charleston in South Carolina wrote an article for Haaretz titled “Liberal Zionists, Face the Facts: There’s Already Only One State From the...
Geraldo Rivera is an American journalist, attorney, author, and political commentator known for his regular appearances on FOX News programs. Rivera has decried the United States’ participation in Israel’s murdering of children and called for a cease-fire, saying:...
Alice Rothchild is a retired obstetrician-gynecologist who has been focused on understanding the Israeli/Palestinian conflict since 1997. She directed a documentary film, Voices Across the Divide, and writes essays and poetry about the conflict. In a 2021 article for...