The new book “A Land With A People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism” shares voices and visions rarely heard on the question of Zionism’s impact on Palestinians and Jews.
Alison Glick’s novel, The Other End of the Sea, tells a gripping love story of two people caught in unbearable conditions.
We are cosponsoring a talk by French author Sylvain Cypel on Tuesday February 15 at noon. “Will diaspora Jews gradually emancipate themselves from a thug nation that claims that it alone can speak in the name of Judaism?” he writes. “More and more American Jews are awakening to the idea that its political rightward drift is a calamity, and that the consequences for them could be disastrous. And that explains the anger of those among them who turn their back on Israel.”
Scientists for Palestine and the Bisan Center for Research and Development are launching “The Bisan Lecture Series” which aims at the full integration of Palestine into the global learning community.
Unemployment is a nightmare for all university graduates in Gaza. Studying so hard and being so ambitious, I never imagined myself one day without work, Ghada Hania writes. Yet after graduation, I searched a lot for jobs, and tried to volunteer at institutions to get experience. But all my efforts were in vain. I mumbled to myself, “Never can I accept such a spectacular failure anymore.” I decided in that moment to follow my passions.
In his new book, “The State of Israel Vs. The Jews,” Sylvain Cypel paints a too-hopeful portrait of the anti-Netanyahu wing of American Jewish life as a virtuous broad tent united in their opposition to racism. What actually exists is a hodgepodge of intercommunal bickering, toothless fingerwagging, and hand-wringing– and this against an ever growing backdrop of Jewish only roads, deliberate bombings of civilian infrastructure and Associated Press offices, as Cypel himself meticulously documents. And in assigning importance to that Jewish argument, Cypel fails to treat Palestinians as autonomous political actors in the struggle.
A new documentary featuring at Sundance this weekend demolishes the official denial of the Tantura massacre, when more than 200 Palestinians in a seaside community were gunned down by a Zionist militia days after the establishment of Israel in 1948. Members of the militia were successful in 2000 in quashing a crusading academic’s documentation of the atrocities.
Udi Aloni reflects on his new film, “Why is We Americans?” and how meeting the Baraka family in Newark, NJ gave him the opportunity to finally learn about the America he wanted to be a part of.
A new cafe in Gaza is a meeting place with a message — “we have a home and we will return to it.”
Given the reality of the historic and ongoing injustice at the core of Zionism, Congregation Tzedek Chicago has concluded that it is not enough to describe itself simply as “non-Zionist.” In a statement explaining the decision its board of director’s writes, “We believe this neutral term fails to honor the central anti-racist premise that structures of oppression cannot be simply ignored; on the contrary, they must be transformed. “