Miko Peled spoke at a conference, “The Israel Lobby: Is it Good for the U.S.? Is it Good for Israel?” published as a special supplement to the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (his talk begins on page 44). “The myth of Israel as a democracy has no factual...

Duke University’s student newspaper The Chronicle published a November 16, 2021 letter by Duke Students for Justice in Palestine saying the foundation of Israel rests upon the expropriation of Palestinian land and displacement of the Palestinian people. In a response...

Lea Tsemel is a Jewish Israeli human rights lawyer. She has represented political prisoners for five decades and was the subject of the 2019 movie Advocate (reviewed in the NY Times).  Tsemel spoke on CANADA TALKS ISRAEL PALESTINE. She...

Writing in CounterPunch, Sarah Roy, a Jew and child of Holocaust survivors, pens a strongly worded letter to President Biden: https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/05/21/a-letter-to-biden-on-gaza/. She asks why Biden isn’t doing more to stop the...

In this interview with Jewish Insider, U.S. Representative from Michigan Andy Levin describes how his Judaism informs his views: https://jewishinsider.com/2021/03/andy-levin-michigan-antisemitism-judaism/. He says we “can’t win the battle against...

In 1948, prior to the creation of the State of Israel, Albert Einstein was solicited by the Stern Gang to raise money and support for its terrorism against the British and the Palestinians. He would have no part of it, as he writes in this pointed letter....

Hungarian-Canadian physician Gabor Maté is a Holocaust survivor. Many in his family perished in Nazi death camps. Mate is an addiction expert, speaker and author. Mate, in a 2014 Toronto Star opinion article, described how the beautiful...

With the latest round of violence, people, from MS-NBC reporter Ali Velshi to comedian John Oliver, are speaking out, including more Jewish voices calling for an end to the mistreatment of Palestinian families. As published in the Jewish...

Writing Ultra-Orthodox Jews Draw the Line in Tikkun Daily, Ronnie Barkan and Joshua Tartakovsky present a truly Jewish perspective: https://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2014/04/04/ultra-orthodox-jews-draw-the-line/ Barkan is a longtime Jewish Israeli...

Writing in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Israeli lawyer and political activist Michael Sfard describes Israel’s treatment of Palestinians as Apartheid: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-yes-it-s-israeli-apartheid-even-without-annexation-1.8984029...

Jeff Halper is an outspoken Israeli Jew who co-founded the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD). He has written for The Nation.  Halper recently offered a detailed plan for resolving Israel/Palestine issues, taking a truly Jewish...

The identification of Israel’s treatments of Palestinians under Israel’s control as apartheid is not a recent phenomenon. Here, Rabbi Brian Walt, a rabbi who grew up in Apartheid South Africa, shares his...

Writing in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Israeli author Gideon Levy says Israel controls the lives of 6 million Palestinians in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza with a system of “discrimination, oppression, dispossession and separation on the basis of nationality” that...

The Refuser Solidarity Network provides support to Israel’s military refusers including funds for demonstrations outside prison, legal fees, media campaigns that tell conscientious objector’s stories to the general public, and education programs for Israeli...

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that Avrum Burg– formerly chairman of the Jewish Agency, Knesset Speaker, and Israel’s acting president– asks that his Jewish nationality be annulled because his conscience tells him what Israel is doing is...

Published by Interlink Books in 2020, in Wrestling with Zionism Daphna Levit compiles Jewish voices, from the birth of zionism until the present day. These include Theodor Herzl, Ahad Haam, Martin Buber, Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Noam...

Jewish groups and individuals from across the globe applauded a letter published in The Guardian regarding the definition of antisemitism by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and the way this definition has been...

Just Peace for Israel/Palestine (JPIP) is a group of people committed to supporting a peaceful and lasting resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian situation. JPIP works 1, to educate ourselves and inform others about the history of Palestine and Israel, and...