“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...
Filmmaker Maurice Jacobson spent two years living in Gaza and has now returned to the United States to dispel myths and showcase the reality of life in Gaza through his documentary “We All Live in Gaza.” His documentary, which will be completed in Winter 2026, was...
“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,...
Jews Around the World Speak Out Against Israel’s Actions Jews around the world are voicing opposition to Israel and the country's aggressive military tactics. Journalists, activists, political staffers, and even retired IDF generals are calling out the dehumanization...
If Not Now defines itself as a “movement of American Jews organizing our community for equality, justice, and a thriving future for all.” For them, “all” includes Palestinians and Israelis across the world. They work against the myth that “Palestinian rights and...
J Street is a nonprofit that organizes pro-peace and pro-democracy Americans to promote U.S. policies that embody their “deeply held Jewish and democratic values.” They work within the American political system to connect the Jewish community with elected officials...
The New Israel Fund (NIF) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring “complete equality to all” citizens of Israel by promoting democratic values, building coalitions, and empowering activists that can "drive meaningful social change in Israel.” The group...
Standing Together describes itself as a “progressive grassroots movement mobilizing Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel against the occupation.” They advocate for peace, equality, and social justice as the largest grassroots organization bridging connections...
Eitan Bronstein Aparicio is the Founder of Zochrot, a Tel Aviv-based organization dedicated to “disseminating historical information about the Palestinian Nakba.” He served as Director from its founding in 2002 until 2011. Aparicio is the author of numerous articles,...
Army Intel Officer Major Harrison Mann is Jewish and worked at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) during President Joe Biden’s administration. Democracy Now writes that Mann is “the first military and intelligence officer to publicly resign over the Biden...
“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...