Prisoners of the Occupation
An excerpt from a play written with former Palestinian political prisoners and attacked and suppressed by Israel’s Ministry of Culture.
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From NYC to Tel Aviv: Becoming Israeli, Staying Progressive
A Q&A WITH HILLEL SCHENKER by Ron Skolnik BORN IN BROOKLYN, New York, in 1942, journalist Hillel Schenker arrived by boat in Israel in November 1963. Since the 1970s, he has been a major participant in the Israeli peace movement, including as a co-founder of Peace Now, and today serves as Israeli co-editor of the […]
Read MoreWhy Jerusalem? Why Not Beijing? Or Washington DC?
by Dan Brook GIDEON ARONOFF, the leader of Ameinu, was wise in saying that truth is not always wisdom. Of course Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, as is universally known. What other city would be its capital? But East Jerusalem is also the future capital of Israeli-occupied Palestine, as is perhaps less universally known. […]
Read MoreWhy Single Israel Out?
by Alan Rutkowski WHY SINGLE ISRAEL OUT? This is a question often posed to those of us, Jews and non-Jews, who oppose Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and advocate for Palestinian rights. After all, Israel is, as they say, the “only democracy in the region.” Of course, calling Israel a democracy glosses over the roughly […]
Read MoreIsrael’s One-Religion State Creating Rifts with American Jews
AMERICAN JEWS BELIEVE IN CHURCH-STATE SEPARATION; ISRAEL IS A THEOCRACY by Allan C. Brownfeld ISRAEL CALLS ITSELF a “Jewish” state. Yet for non-Orthodox Jews, who represent the vast majority of the American Jewish community, there is less religious freedom in Israel than anyplace in the Western world. While American Jews believe in separation of […]
Read MoreMy Path to Atheism
by Alan Rutkowski I RECENTLY HAD an epiphany: I don’t believe in God. For a very long time — most of my life, actually — I sort of thought I did. Religion has played a big part in my life. For some reason my mother, who was not religious at all, sent my sister and […]
Read MoreOn Art as Resistance
IN ISRAEL AND THE U.S. by Liya Rechtman WHAT DOES IT MEAN to protest when no one is listening? Or when our act of protest is portrayed as running counter to the “will of the people”? As I sit in Jerusalem watching the age of Trump unfold, it can feel like the walls are closing in. Here […]
Read MoreAfter 50 Years, Israel’s Occupation Seems Permanent
by Allan C. Brownfeld EVER SINCE 1967, Israel has occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem. As the world now marks 50 years of Israeli control of these territories — and its building of settlements housing approximately 700,000 people, in violation of international law — it appears that, to the current Israeli government, this occupation […]
Read MoreGolda’s Missed Opportunities for Peace
by Ralph Seliger AS WE commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Israel’s remarkable military victory in the Six Day War, June 5-10 of 1967, we note with a heavy heart that it also marks the beginning of Israel’s occupation over a non-Jewish population that neither welcomed nor accepts this situation. Still, Israel’s triumph over numerically superior […]
Read MoreThoughts on Jewish-Muslim Engagement in the Era of Trump
by Benjamin Kweskin I AM very heartened to see several national Jewish organizations across the political and ideological spectrum supporting American Muslims, a community clearly under attack and on the defensive amid the unprecedented McCarthyite witch-hunt by the current presidential administration regime and many of its emboldened supporters. Only ten days after the new US […]
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