Palestinian widows are surviving against terrible odds: their homes and towns are the battlegrounds of war, while they lose family members, neighbors, and friends to Israeli bombings. Many Palestinian women are enduring the additional burden of losing their husbands,...
The Bisan Center for Research and Development is a Palestinian nonprofit working to enhance the socio-economic future of Palestinian people through the “critical development of knowledge”. Founded in 1989, the Bisan Center serving women, youth, and working-class...
The Union of Palestinian Women Committees Society (UPWC) is community organization with a self-described “progressive feminist” outlook. They were founded in 1980 and focus on building a “democratic Palestinian civil society free of all forms of discrimination in...
The Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) is a Palestinian NGO that works on “agricultural land development and implementation of water interventions to capacity building, development of rural women’s livelihoods, legal awareness, emergency response and other...
The Union of Palestinian Women Committees Society (UPWC) is a community organization that focuses on empowering women and ending gender discrimination. In the video linked here, the organization highlights one of its women’s empowerment projects, Beta Agricultural...
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...
Proudly Jewish comedian and podcaster Jonathan Randall explains why he does not believe that criticizing Israel makes him self-hating. Video title: Being a Jew against Palestinian oppression doesn’t make you a “self-hating Jew” Created by: Jonathan Randall Video...
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz was a Jewish writer, political activist, and the founding executive director of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice. In her book The colors of Jews: racial politics and radical diasporism (2007), she described radical diasporism—where Jews...
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...
Actress Emma Watson, best known for her role as Hermione in the Harry Potter series, shared a photo on her Instagram account from a pro-Palestine rally with the phrase “Solidarity is a Verb.” Israel’s former ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon accused Watson...
“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...