John Dugard was born in Fort Beaufort, Cape Province, South Africa in 1936.He completed his law degrees at Cambridge University, became a Professor of Law at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and eventually became dean at the School of Law and director...
In this January 10, 2025 blog post, Rabbi Brant Rosen connects the week’s Torah portion, Parshat Vayechi, to the legacy of Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime Minister assassinated following the Oslo Peace Accords, and the entirety of the Zionist enterprise. Although...
Al-Haq is an independent Palestinian non-governmental organization (NGO) based in Ramallah, West Bank in occupied Palestine. Established in 1979, the NGO promotes human rights by documenting violations against the “individual and collective rights of Palestinian”...
The Bisan Center for Research and Development is a Palestinian nonprofit working to enhance the socio-economic future of Palestinian people through the “critical development of knowledge”. The video below features a recorded conversation between the center’s staff and...
Addameer Association is a prisoner support group and human rights organization founded in 1991. In this video, several Palestinian men and women share their stories of administrative detention, arrest, and imprisonment in the occupied territories of Palestine. Family...
Al-Haq is an independent Palestinian non-governmental organization based in Ramallah, West Bank in occupied Palestine. Established in 1979, the NGO (non-governmental agency) promotes human rights by documenting violations against the “individual and collective rights...
In this episode of The Big Picture Podcast, host Mohamed Hassan speaks with Richard Boyd Barett, an Irish lawmaker and anti-war activist. Barett has been an advocate for an end to apartheid in both South Africa and Palestine, often leading rallies and marches across...
“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...