The United Nations Committee Against Torture (UN CAT) published its findings on the Israeli government’s abuses against Palestinian detainees, calling the independent findings “war crimes, crimes against humanity, and [part of] the actus reus of genocide.” The report...
Younger Jews Embrace Solidarity with Palestinian Families Younger Jews are increasingly speaking out against Israel and for Palestinian families’ human rights. In doing so, they are adhering to lessons Jewish values teach every generation – to stand with oppressed...
On October 18, 2023, Israelis Against Apartheid released an open letter calling for an “immediate end” to “the ongoing massive Israeli military assault on the people of Gaza.” With 1,800 Israeli signatures and counting, the letter makes it clear that many Israelis...
In this video posted by X user @ivan_8848, Israeli veterans talk candidly about the massacres they committed during the 1948 Nakba. This video post shows several elderly Jewish men detailing the forcible removal of Palestinian families from their villages and...
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...
Yonotan Shapira is a Former Captain of the Israeli Air Force (IAF) who has since become an outspoken activist and supporter of the call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. Shapira served in the IAF for 11 years as an officer in the Black Hawk...
Testimonies and classified documents about Israel’s atrocities from the 1948 Nakba/War of Independence, including previously obscured massacres, are beginning to be revealed despite attempts to conceal them. While Israel’s Malmab unit (Hebrew acronym which stands for...
Palestinians subjected to war crimes by the United Kingdom have presented a 300-page dossier of evidence, asking for a formal acknowledgement of and apology for the abuses committed by British forces during their rule from 1917 to 1948. The BBC has reviewed the...
This play is adapted from the testimonies of Israeli soldiers from Israeli veterans’ organization Breaking the Silence, whose vivid memories of the realities of occupation continue to haunt them. See more about Breaking the Silence here:...
For the first time, six former heads of the Shin Bet agency, Israel’s secret service in charge of overseeing Israel’s war on terror, publicly share their reflections on their actions. Year: 2013 Time: 101 minutes Watch the film’s trailer:...
“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...