Writer Robert Rosenthal, publisher of The Progressive Jew, breaks down the powerful myths that the Israeli government and allied organizations use to deny Palestinian people agency and keep Jewish supporters uninformed as to the reality of Palestinian suffering. He...
“Israel is an ethno-democracy. A democracy for Jews only.” Those were the words that stood out to Professor Emerita Hasia Dinar on her journey of questioning and rupture with her childhood faith she had placed in the state of Israel. In her confessional video,...
Jews Around the World Speak Out Against Israel’s Actions Jews around the world are voicing opposition to Israel and the country's aggressive military tactics. Journalists, activists, political staffers, and even retired IDF generals are calling out the dehumanization...
Jewish people, communities, and organizations around the world are calling for an end to Israel’s violence against Palestinian people. Since Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has killed more than 26,000 Palestinian men, women, and children while displacing nearly 2 million...
Liberation theology is a Christian theological and social movement that prioritizes the liberation of the oppressed. Coined by Peruvian Roman Catholic priest and theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez in this 1968 lecture “Hacia una teología de la liberación” (“Towards a...
Formed in 1924, The Palestine Jewish Colonization Association began as a reorganization of the Jewish Colonization Association, originally established in 1891. The group’s self-described goals stated the colonization of Palestinian land, facilitating the emigration of...
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...
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...
Retired marketer Seth Morrison used to support and fund Zionist organizations. Now, he is an activist who boycotts them in support of the Palestinian right to return. As a liberal Jew from Long Island who grew up with a desire to help fix the world’s problems,...
Rabbi Brant Rosen publicly denounced Israel’s institutional oppression of Palestinians and founded the anti-Zionist synagogue Tzedek Chicago in 2015. Even without calling it apartheid, Rosen notes that other Jewish organizations see that annexation “would enact an...
“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...