If the U.N. appears to single Israel out, it is because the country owes its existence to that body and has repeatedly defied principles it agreed to when it gained membership at the U.N. “The failure to achieve an Arab-Israeli peace remains for the UN a deep internal wound as old as the organization itself, (…) a painful and festering sore consequently felt in almost every intergovernmental organ and Secretariat body,” Kofi Annan said.

If there was no other way to have Judaism exist without Apartheid Israel, I would have to go against Judaism, Jonathan Ofir writes. But that’s not the case. There is a way out. Judaism and Jews can exist without Apartheid – and therefore, I fight against Apartheid and for Judaism simultaneously.

The late Archbishop Desmond Tutu used his moral stature to call out and oppose Israeli apartheid, but the U.S. media seem embarrassed about this information. NPR completely leaves it out, while the New York Times and Washington Post and PBS News Hour bury it.

Prevented from traveling due to the coronavirus, Jewish Israelis flocked to Nazareth and Haifa this holiday season with many saying it was like “going abroad.” It is time for the Israeli public to face the fact that it is in the Middle East, and remove the barriers – both physical and mental – that keeps them from doing so.

A new song celebrates the mood of collective Palestinian defiance in 2021, and pays tribute to all those who have fallen.

This year was marked by a number of a political setbacks, but it also produced inspiring victories.

The Palestinian Authority is rife with corruption, which has now started to influence all parts of Palestinian society. The PA will only be forced to respect the rule of law if Palestinians demand it, and the international community cuts off funding until it does.

Palestinians in Gaza have been demonized to the point that their humanity is often lost. Through his photography Mahmoud Nasser seeks to capture the people of Gaza beyond images of pain and misery; to see them as the people they are.

Israeli author Einat Wilf tells the Democratic Party how to give the bad news to Palestinians. “I had to wrestle with the fact that I’m not a nice person. And I accepted it,” she says. So Americans must give “not pleasant” messages to Palestinians, that they need to accept that Zionism is a legitimate “indigenous” movement for Jewish liberation in the Middle East.

What does the end of South African apartheid tell us about how Israeli apartheid can end? That sanctions on Israel are required, and that a civil society mass movement is the only way to get there.