Jews Step Forward is a confessional documentary featuring 24 Jewish activists who “deconstruct Zionism” against a backdrop of searing, on-the-ground images and footage of atrocities perpetrated by Jewish citizens and military against Palestinian men and women....
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,...
Renowned Jewish voice and activist Peter Beinart writes about an alternative narrative where Israeli Jews have the right to equality, not supremacy, and Palestinian and Jewish safety are not mutually exclusive but intertwined. In Being Jewish After the Destruction of...
Simone Zimmerman is a Jewish American activist known for her advocacy against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. She co-founded IfNotNow, a movement of young American Jews calling for an end to U.S. support for the occupation and a reexamination of...
Antony Loewenstein is an independent journalist, photographer, blogger, and Australian best-selling author and filmmaker. Lowenstein has written books, such as The Palestinian Laboratory, My Israel Question and Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe....
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...
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,...
Israelis Against Apartheid is a group of more than 1,500 Jewish Israeli citizens who seek to end Israel’s apartheid system. They have released several open letters since October 2023 calling for the immediate end of Israel’s assault on Gaza, including the October 18,...
On October 18, 2023, Israelis Against Apartheid released an open letter calling for an “immediate end” to “the ongoing massive Israeli military assault on the people of Gaza.” With 1,800 Israeli signatures and counting, the letter makes it clear that many Israelis...
“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...