The Tragic Killing of a Palestinian-American Journalist On the morning of May 11, 2022, American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh went to the occupied West Bank town of Jenin with other journalists to film an Israeli military raid. Without warning, Israeli forces shot her...
Who Can Be Trusted to Tell? Top Israeli Intellectuals Urge Human Rights Groups to Investigate War Crimes Last May, more than 180 Israeli scientists and intellectuals wrote a letter to the International Crime Court (ICC) urging it not to accept the state’s rejection of...
Defense for Children International - Palestine (DCIP) is an independent, local Palestinian child rights organization dedicated to defending and promoting the rights of children living in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. DCIP released a...
In a letter dated November 8, 1948, just 10 days after the Al-Dawayima massacre, S. Kaplan shares the testimony of an Israeli soldier who witnessed (in his words) “the horror of the recognition that such level of barbarism can be reached by our educated and cultured...
Ayelet is a 16-year-old trans teen and activist in the Mesarvot network, an Israeli organization that supports war resisters and political objectors. She wrote a letter to the Refuser Solidarity Network to share her accounts of Israel’s pinkwashing (displaying...
Judy Haiven is a Jewish writer and activist living in Nova Scotia. She was formerly a professor of business and management at Saint Mary’s University. Haiven is a founder of Equity Watch, a human rights organization dedicated to fighting bullying and discrimination in...
Sari Bashi is a Jewish Israeli lawyer and Program Director at Human Rights Watch. In her book Maqluba – Upside Down Love (in Hebrew), she describes how she met and fell in love with her Palestinian husband. They are currently raising their children in the West Bank....
Etan Nechin is an Israeli journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, Haaretz, Vice, Jacobin, Jewish Currents, and more. He is the online editor of The Bare Life Review: a Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Literature. In a 2020 op-ed for Forward,...
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield are the Jewish American founders of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. The duo came under fire in 2021 when they announced they would halt ice cream sales in the illegally occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. Cohen responded: “If I care...