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:...
In the January 2009 offensive on Gaza, over 1,300 Palestinians were killed. More than 300 of them were children. This award-winning documentary follows the lives of four Gazan children over the course of a year and gives unique insight into the impacts of war. Year:...
Friends since childhood, young Palestinians Khaled and Said are recruited to carry out a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. After a last night with their families without being allowed to say goodbye, they are taken to the border with bombs strapped to their bodies....
Breaking the Silence is an organization of Israeli military veterans who share their stories to the Israeli public about their experiences as soldiers facing civilians in the Occupied Territories. The organization collects video testimonials from these soldiers for...
American Rachel Corrie was an advocate for poor and underserved populations from an early age. In this video, we see Rachel as a fifth grader imploring for equal treatment for those around us as well as those in third-world countries. We also see images from the...
Remembering Muslims Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust Mohammad Mesli barely knew his father--he died in 1961 when Mohammad was only a young boy. But a few years ago, he found a suitcase filled with documentation of his father’s secret life as an...
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...