Research Reveals How Palestinian People Became Refugees How was it that Palestinian families became refugees? Noga Kadman’s book, Erased from Space and Consciousness: Israel and the Depopulated Palestinian Villages of 1948 (2015), answers this question with striking...
Jewish Voices Respond to Protect Human Rights Israel has declared six Palestinian organizations as terrorist groups. The groups include civil society associations, human rights institutions, and unions operating in the West Bank. Some religious leaders, politicians,...
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...
Since October 7, 2023, the world has watched the government of Israel drop more than 6,000 bombs and launch more than 7,000 missiles into the territory of Gaza, causing damage the equivalent of 2 nuclear bombs. The military operation is in retaliation to a Hamas-led...
Haaaretz journalists Gideon Levy and Alex Levac reported on a West Bank burglary case in 2020 in which a small Palestinian business was repeatedly burglarized by Jewish settlers. Was this burglary motivated by racism? Mohammed Mahmadi, 29, left his restaurant job in...
In February 2023, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government transferred civil authorities over the West Bank from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to a new minister within the Ministry of Defense. According to Foreign Affairs, “[t]his administrative change...
Nadia Saah is a board member of Jewish Currents. In this moving photo essay, she shares her family’s story of their harrowing experiences during the 1948 Nakba (the Catastrophe). The essay compiles 11 more stories from other Palestinians on the 75th anniversary of the...
George Marx is a Jewish blogger who writes on his websites www.GeorgeMarx.org, www.WorkingTowardsEndingRacism.org, www.EndThePatriarchy.org, and www.CaringWhitemen.com. In one blog post titled “Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, American Muslims for Palestine and Respect,” Marx...
The Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) is a non-profit organization that provides facts, analysis, experts, and digital resources about Palestine and Palestinians for journalists. It was founded in 2005 by a group of Americans who were concerned about...
The One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC) is an initiative launched in 2018 by Palestinian and Israeli Jewish activists and academics working towards the establishment of a single democratic state in historic Palestine in which all Palestinian refugees and their...
“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...