New York Jewish Agenda

New York Jewish Agenda

The New York Jewish Agenda (NYJA) amplifies Jewish voices with shared values to promote social justice, combat antisemitism, and support a democratic vision of Israel. The NYJA also engages with critical issues that affect the New York community. NYJA hosted a...

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Khaled Elgindy

Khaled Elgindy

Khaled Elgindy is a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute (MEI) and director of the MEI program on Palestine and Israeli-Palestinian Affairs. He is the author of the book Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump (2019). Elgindy has served...

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Jewish Voice for Peace

Jewish Voice for Peace

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...

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Geraldo Rivera

Geraldo Rivera

Geraldo Rivera is an American journalist, attorney, author, and political commentator known for his regular appearances on FOX News programs. Rivera has decried the United States’ participation in Israel’s murdering of children and called for a cease-fire, saying:...

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Alice Rothchild

Alice Rothchild

Alice Rothchild is a retired obstetrician-gynecologist who has been focused on understanding the Israeli/Palestinian conflict since 1997. She directed a documentary film, Voices Across the Divide, and writes essays and poetry about the conflict. In a 2021 article for...

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Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders

Senator Bernie Sanders is an American politician from Vermont who became interested in politics due to his Jewish background: he learned that as a result of Adolf Hitler winning an election, 6 million Jews were murdered including many of his relatives in Poland....

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A Burglary Motivated by Racism

A Burglary Motivated by Racism

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...

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Curt’s Hebron

Curt’s Hebron

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...

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Virginia Tech GPSS

Virginia Tech GPSS

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...

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