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. “

The French writer Sylvain Cypel went to Israel as a young man to join the army and build the country. Now he is deeply dismayed by its rightwing nativism and indifference to international human rights law and has penned a lacerating book about the threat of Zionism to Palestinians and to Jewish tradition.

Rabbi Michael Davis sought to further his Arabic studies by visiting his teacher in Hebron. She took him to the armed Jewish-Israeli settler encampment in the heart of the Palestinian city. “Despite the show of military force, the hospitality of my hosts reminded me: an outstretched hand provides greater security than all the guns in the world.”

The spread on the Atta family’s dinner table can be commonly found on dinner tables throughout the Gaza Strip, where many families live below the poverty line. The family of five’s budget never exceeds 15 shekels ($4.87) for dinner.

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

Despite unbearable conditions under Israeli siege, youth from the Gaza Strip won many of the categories in this year’s prestigious Palestine National Music Competition. In seeking to explain this Ayman El-Hallaq writes, “Music, as far as I think, to such a group of Gazan children is more than a collection of melodies to be played on musical instruments; it is a way of survival, it has a healing effect as a treatment that soothes the injuries of life in Gaza.”