Anna Rajagopal was fired from her position with Hebrew Union College’s Jewish Language Project out of fear her anti-Zionist politics would alienate donors. Her story reveals the culture of fear within Jewish institutional life.
September 29 marks 100 years since Britain was assigned the role of Mandatory Power in Palestine. Despite a hundred years of bloody conflict and grief, the international community’s obligation to decolonize Palestine continues today.
The Balfour Declaration violated Britain’s legal obligations as set out by the Covenant of the League of Nations. This establishes a legal basis for the Palestinian people to demand reparations from the UK.
Following weeks of protest at Gaza’s border fence, the “Revolutionary Youth” have suspended actions following Qatari and Egyptian “mediation” to halt protests.
The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society said in a statement that the Israeli Prison Service was “obstructing lawyer visits” to hunger-striking prisoner Kayed al-Fasfous.
The Palestine Writes Literature Festival was a liberated space for Palestinians to speak and dream freely. It was an unequivocal display of love for a land and her people, their history and their future.
AIPAC’s favorite Senate Democrat, New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez, may lose his seat following a second major corruption scandal. This could be an opportunity for Palestinian rights advocates.
The Biden administration’s move to allow Israel into the U.S. Visa Waiver Program delivers a massive PR win to a Netanyahu government facing widespread protest at home and abroad.
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee is suing the U.S. government over Israel’s entry into the U.S. Visa Waiver Program. “Admitting Israel into the Visa Waiver Program would be an endorsement of discrimination against Palestinian and Arab Americans,” says ADC Director Abed Ayoub.
Mondoweiss U.S. correspondent Michael Arria speaks to Antony Lowenstein about his new book “The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World”.