Middle East Chaos Is Not an Accident

Middle East Chaos Is Not an Accident

Award-winning journalist Jonathan Cook argues that the chaos in the Middle East is not an accident but is the end goal for Israel and American neocons. His book Israel and the Clash of Civilizations sheds light on inter-related geopolitical issues in the region, from...

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Speed Sisters

Speed Sisters

The Speed Sisters are the first all-woman race car driving team in the Middle East. Grabbing headlines and turning heads at improvised tracks across the West Bank, these five women have sped their way into the heart of the gritty, male-dominated Palestinian street...

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Occupation 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority

Occupation 101: Voices of the Silenced Majority

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is widely viewed in the US as one of the most complicated geopolitical disputes in the world. But there are also signs that Americans are unfamiliar with one of the core flashpoints of the conflict: the exact nature of Israel’s ongoing...

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Ottawa Forum on Israel/Palestine (OFIP)

Ottawa Forum on Israel/Palestine (OFIP)

On November 23, 2020, OFIP hosted a webinar with Dr. Rashid Khalidi discussing his book "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine." Dr. Khalidi is the Edward Said Chair of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University in New York. He has a PhD from Oxford University and is...

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Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions

Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions

Featuring Omar Barghouti, this conference-- presented by the Arab American Institute, the Foundation for Middle East Peace, and the John Brademas Center of New York University-- discusses the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement in support of human...

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Ron Shive (Full Interview)

Ron Shive (Full Interview)

Ron Shive, Senior Pastor of Burlington, North Carolina’s First Presbyterian Church, talks about what he learned from his extensive travels throughout the Middle East over the last decade. Pastor Shive shares how hearing that the Israel/Palestine conflict is “too...

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Where Is the Palestinian Mandela?

Where Is the Palestinian Mandela?

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?...

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Palestine Open Maps

Palestine Open Maps

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...

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Rachel Tetrault

Rachel Tetrault

Rachel Tetrault is a community organizer and campaigner who wrote a letter to Straight.com about Vancouver’s choice to adopt a contentious antisemitism definition. In the letter, Tetrault shares about her Jewish upbringing and facing Israel’s racism against...

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Anna Baltzer

Anna Baltzer

Anna Baltzer is a Jewish American award-winning speaker and organizer. She described her observations visiting the West Bank in a book Witness in Palestine: a Jewish Woman in the Occupied Territories and has toured the world presenting her experiences to more than 500...

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