In February 2023, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government transferred civil authorities over the West Bank from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to a new minister within the Ministry of Defense. According to Foreign Affairs, “[t]his administrative change...
The One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC) is an initiative launched in 2018 by Palestinian and Israeli Jewish activists and academics working towards the establishment of a single democratic state in historic Palestine in which all Palestinian refugees and their...
Jews Say No! is a New York City-based group that engages in community education, street theatre, and organizing. The group began during “Operation Cast Lead,” the Israeli attack on Gaza in December/January 2008-09. They gather every month on the Upper West Side of...
CODEPINK is a feminist grassroots organization that strives to end U.S. warfare and imperialism. CODEPINK supports peace and justice in the world, and advocates for redirecting resources to life-affirming programs like healthcare and education. Participate in upcoming...
Interview with Dr. Burhan Ghanayem, Board Chair of Voices for Justice in Palestine Burhan traveled to the Occupied Palestinian West Bank from late September to mid-October 2022. The interview has been edited for clarity. The Interviewer is Rev. J. Mark Davidson,...
British playwright Caryl Churchill was awarded the European Drama Prize in April 2022 only for the award to be rescinded in October in retaliation for Churchill’s continued support of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. More than 170 actors,...
In older episodes, Katie Miranda interviews academics, journalists, and activists who engage with the Palestinian struggle for freedom. Newer episodes feature interviews with people who have overcome great obstacles. The archive of podcast episodes can be found here...
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...
Gideon Levy is one of the most famous and controversial journalists in Israel. The Independent has described him as both “the most hated man in Israel” and the “most heroic.” Levy, in turn, describes Israelis as living in a “bubble”—unaware of their government’s...
Benjamin Moser is a world-renown writer: he was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for his book Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for his latest book Sontag: Her Life and Work. He’s also a Jewish...
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...