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...
U.S. Congress member Kathy Manning (D-NC) visited Sderot with an Israeli tour and described her fear of Gazan rockets. If Americans Knew editor and writer Kathryn Shihadah made a video response to educating Manning on the history and context of Gaza and Sderot. Video...
Dr. Steven Feldman, curator of the www.PromisedLandMuseum.org, is an academic dermatologist in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and one of the foremost experts on patients’ adherence to treatment. He gave an invited lecture to the Dermatology Department at the...
Justin Sadowsky is a civil rights attorney for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Legal Defense Fund. Sadowsky has played a key role in fighting the United States’ “terror watchlist,” defending the rights of incarcerated Muslim Americans, and defeating...
The One Democratic State Campaign (OCSC) is an initiative launched in 2018 by Palestinian and Israeli Jewish activists and academics. The campaign works toward the establishment of a single democratic state in historic Palestine in which all Palestinian refugees and...
Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) is national organization composed of Jewish Americans and allies who “support full equality for Palestinians and Jewish Israelis grounded in international law and universal principles of human rights.” While JVP is a Jewish faith-based...
On March 16, 2023, Gallup published the results of a poll that measured American sympathy for Palestinians, Israelis, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority. For the first time, more Democrats (49% versus 38%) sympathize with Palestinians than with Israelis....
Gideon Levy is one of the most famous and controversial journalists in Israel. The Independent has described him as both “the most hated man in Israel” and the “most heroic.” Levy, in turn, describes Israelis as living in a “bubble”—unaware of their government’s...
Investigative journalist David Sheen spoke on December 12, 2018 at De Balie in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He describes how Israeli political leaders and parties support apartheid in Israel/Palestine. Hear his analysis here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9h1xoOY63Q....
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...
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...
Curtis Bell, President of Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East, spoke to the First Unitarian Church’s Department of Social Justice about his two months in Hebron and what he learned about the Palestinian experience under Israeli occupation. Video...
The Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS) at Virginia Tech passed a resolution in October 2021 demanding that the University’s administration enact an academic boycott of Israel and institutions “complicit in maintaining the Israeli occupation.” The...
In 2000, the heads of Jerusalem churches wrote a letter to the leaders at Camp David as they decided the status of Jerusalem. In 2017, these patriarchs once again wrote a letter, but this time it was directed to U.S. President Donald Trump. Jerusalem Christian church...
Controversy fell upon the Temerty Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto in 2022 as debate swirled between accusations of antisemitism and anti-Palestinian racism. A confidential letter—addressed to Acting Dean Patricia Houston and signed by 45 Faculty...