As we approach the third anniversary of the horrific Hamas attacks, Israel’s violent backlash is still ongoing. In addition to the ongoing genocide in Gaza it has engaged in military actions against Lebanon and Syria—as well as a losing, catastrophic…
In ‘NAZA,’ Israeli whistleblowers’ revelations about civilian deaths in Gaza reflect a longer history of Palestinian isolation
There’s a powerful scene in Moroccan-French-Israeli filmmaker Simone Bitton’s 2004 documentary “Wall,” which tells the story of the construction of the West Bank barrier, a 448-mile – or 721-kilometer – network of walls and fences dividing large parts of the…
U.S. ambassador calls settlers who sieged Palestinian homes in Qusra ‘terrorists’
The West Bank settlement movement’s leadership joined with one of its most prominent defenders, U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee, in condemning an Israeli settler outpost set up in a Palestinian family’s yard.
Between Isaac and Ishmael: An American family divided, hope unbroken
When Ethan was sitting across from me, I heard something soft in his face, something that does not match the weight he carries. His voice had the calm of a man who has known both love and loss and still…
Staunch Israel critic and Gaza trauma surgeon Adam Hamawy wins NJ-12 primary
Adam Hamawy, the staunch Israel critic who served as a trauma surgeon in Gaza, is expected to join Congress after winning the Democratic primary in New Jersey’s 12th district on Tuesday.
Palestinians in Gaza mark anniversary of 1948 mass expulsion and say today’s catastrophe is worse
Blink and you might miss the few stone walls that are all that’s left of the village that Yusuf Abu Hamam’s family was forced to flee when he was an infant in 1948.
How Nakba Day can help us understand Palestine
On May 15, thousands will gather at churches and mosques, on campuses and on streets throughout Chicago to observe a day most Americans never heard of. It’s called Nakba Day. The day commemorates the Zionist expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians from their…
The answer to who should control Palestine was obvious
“I hate Mr. Balfour’s pronouncement. … To my mind it’s a wholly artificial scheme divorced from all relation to facts, and I wish it the ill success that it deserves.” — Gertrude Bell One of the many entirely valid…
Insanity in the name of God
The pronouncements of President Donald Trump these days are so outrageous that it would be a form of parody if it were not for the fact that he is commander in chief of the most powerful army in the world…
These US Jews wanted to show solidarity with Palestinians. Israel deported them.
On the morning of March 24, Sophie Drukman-Feldstein, an American Jew and activist, was arrested and jailed for a simple gesture: Hissing at a flock of Jewish settlers’ sheep to get them to move off a Palestinian family’s land where…
In occupied Palestine, the eyes don’t lie
“Jesus spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. ‘Go,’ Jesus told him, ‘Wash in the pool of Siloam.’ So the man went and washed and came home seeing.” This story…
The church should be more like Ms. Rachel
The recent anniversary of the adoption of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child on Nov. 20 begs the question: How can the church faithfully live out the calls of World Children’s Day while the war in Gaza…