Israeli author Richard Forer speaks with Palestinian-American Yvette Bansal to dispel some common myths and share little-known facts about the Israel-Hamas conflict. Richard emphasizes Hamas’ desire and willingness to work toward peace with Israel. He highlights...
In Breakthrough: Transforming Fear Into Compassion, Richard Forer researches and examines the most common arguments from both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict. He shows that “the real enemy is the unexamined mind that projects its suffering onto the other.”...
Richard Forer is a Jewish American author and activist based in New Jersey. He is the author of Breakthrough: Transforming Fear Into Compassion - A New Perspective on the Israel-Palestine Conflict (2010) and Wake Up and Reclaim Your Humanity: Essays on the Tragedy of...
“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...