Tom Freudenheim is a Jewish American who blogs at www.freudenheim.com. He recently wrote a letter to the Promised Land Museum, which reads as follows: “I’m devoted to the Forward, so when I read the article about you I was puzzled as to why I hadn’t known about you...
Torah Jews is a website whose mission is to clarify the distinction between Zionism and Judaism. The website is rooted in the Torah and explains how traditional Judaism states that the Jewish people are “in exile by Divine Decree and may emerge from exile solely via...
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...
Wrestling with Zionism is a theater project incubated by Jewish Voice for Peace – New York City in which JVP-NYC members share their personal stories about Israel-Palestine. Video title: Wrestling with Zionism Created by: Jewish Voice for Peace Video length: 00:04:46...
The New York City chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) compiled thirteen testimonies by diverse JVP-NYC members and a set of discussion questions in the 2017 publication Confronting Zionism: A Collection of Personal Stories. The group shares their hope that the...
Diana Neslen is a practicing Jewish woman who was investigated for antisemitism by UK Labour after she tweeted “the existence of the state of Israel is a racist endeavour and I am an antiracist Jew.” Labour dropped the case after Neslen threatened to sue. She said: “I...
Dr. Joshua Shanes, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Arnold Center for Israel Studies at the College of Charleston in South Carolina wrote an article for Haaretz titled “Liberal Zionists, Face the Facts: There’s Already Only One State From the...
Rabbi Miriam Grossman of the Kolot Chayeinu/Voices of Our Lives congregation in Brooklyn, New York, is an educator and organizer who leads through Jewish ritual. She teaches that following a Jewish theology means protecting the human rights of all people, including...
This video is the first known film of Palestine from the early 20th century, shared by the Spielberg Jewish Film Archive of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It was filmed in 1911 by Murray Rosenberg of the English Zionist Federation and dedicated to Theodor Herzl,...
In the early 1900s, Palestine experienced waves of Jewish migration and colony-building, including the founding of Tel Aviv in 1909 and the creation of the Haganah (the Jewish paramilitary organization) in 1920. On August 15, 1929, Zionist groups organized a great...
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...