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...
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...
The Union of Palestinian Women Committees Society (UPWC) is community organization with a self-described “progressive feminist” outlook. They were founded in 1980 and focus on building a “democratic Palestinian civil society free of all forms of discrimination in...
Naim Stifan Ateek is a Palestinian priest and active leader in the Christian community advocating for justice in Palestine. He is a prominent figure in the religious community and is the first to articulate a Palestinian theology of liberation in his book Justice, and...
Nurit Peled-Elhanan is a Jewish philologist, activist, translator, and Professor of language and education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her teaching and research advocates for inclusive education in both Israel and Palestine by highlighting how textbooks in...
Howard Lisnoff wrote about “The Long View of Palestine, Israel and War” in a piece for Counter Punch. In the article, he reflects on the history of Zionism in Israel and the dehumanization of Palestinians. He aptly points out that critiquing Zionism and occupation...
In an Opinion piece for Moment Mag, David K. Shipler reflects on the weight of history and memory in shaping the ongoing violence the Israeli government is waging against the people of Palestine. As a former Jerusalem bureau chief for The New York Times, David speaks...
Susan Webber, under her Naked Capitalism pen name Yves Smith, reposted and commented on an article by Aidan McQuade titled “Gaza: Did the West Learn Nothing from the Peace Process in Ireland?” Originally posted on OpenDemocracy.net, the article compares the U.K.’s...
Jewish people, communities, and organizations around the world are calling for an end to Israel’s violence against Palestinian people. Since Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has killed more than 26,000 Palestinian men, women, and children while displacing nearly 2 million...
Liberation theology is a Christian theological and social movement that prioritizes the liberation of the oppressed. Coined by Peruvian Roman Catholic priest and theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez in this 1968 lecture “Hacia una teología de la liberación” (“Towards a...
“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...