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...
Proudly Jewish comedian and podcaster Jonathan Randall explains why he does not believe that criticizing Israel makes him self-hating. Video title: Being a Jew against Palestinian oppression doesn’t make you a “self-hating Jew” Created by: Jonathan Randall Video...
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...
1948 and After: Israel and the Palestinians is a collection of essays by Israeli historian Benny Morris; the book explores Israeli decision-making and what caused the mass exodus from Palestine in 1948. Purchase the book here or borrow the book from your local library...
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...
Zochrot, founded in 2002 by Jewish-Israeli activists, is an organization that calls for Israel to recognize the Nakba and Palestinian refugees’ right of return. Zochrot has been instrumental in providing access to information about the Nakba in Hebrew. They launched...
Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) is a U.S. organization of Jewish activists who advocate for a just solution for Palestinian refugees. JVP organizers seek peace in the Middle East and an end to violence against civilians. Donate to JVP here. Join JVP Action, which seeks...
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib made history in 2008 as the first Muslim woman to serve the Michigan Legislature and the first Palestinian American woman elected to Congress. In 2022, Tlaib sponsored H.Res.1123 – Recognizing the Nakba and Palestinian refugees’ rights in...
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...
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...
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...