Some people regard Israel as evil. Others defend it as if it can do no wrong. As ardent opponents of the occupation who see no contradiction between being pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian, we know that some of what Israel’s critics say is true. And some of what its defenders say is also true.
Our goal is to present a third narrative, to weigh the claims and counter-claims in this ongoing debate in order to help those who want to pursue peace and justice for both Israelis and Palestinians.
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Arab & Jewish Israelis ‘Standing Together’
Bringing Arabs & Jews together is a rebuke to rejectionists on university campuses & social media. BDS added Standing Together to its boycott list, damning it for “normalizing” interactions with Israeli Jews—a threat to sclerotic orthodoxies of left & right, alike.
Would One State be ‘Binational’ or ‘Eliminationist’?
Despite my disagreement with some of Prof. Khalidi’s views, I appreciate his anguish over the ongoing suffering of his people, and hope against hope that they and the people of Israel will emerge from their mutual horrors with a two-state peace.
The “Zionism/Anti-Zionism” Debate: Bad for Israel, Bad for Palestine
For as long as I can recall, a feverish debate has been waged about the merits and demerits of something called “Zionism” and another something called “Anti-Zionism”. … a framing that primarily serves the most extreme viewpoints on either side of the Israel-Palestine question and that entrenches a binary zero-sum game mentality.
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Two-State Solution’s Dead? What’s the Alternative?
… there are roughly seven million Israeli Jews and seven million Palestinian Arabs living in the borders of the British Mandate. … The most workable way to share is to divide the land … also the only way to achieve, for both sides, the minimum of national rights that both have legitimately pursued.
Protests in and about Gaza
Analyzing two pieces in The Forward: a review of a documentary film about the anti-Israel protests at Columbia, and an article about the anti-Hamas protests in Gaza.
Israeli Right-wing Gov’s Grotesque Agenda
The protesters’ banner reads: “It’s time for a government of Recovery.” This analysis is by the national chair of Canadian Friends of Peace Now, who joins us as a contributing writer.
Israel has had enough of Netanyahu
Netanyahu knows [that if] elections were to be held tomorrow, he’d be thrown out of office. … and he’d likely wind up spending time in jail, like his predecessor, the former prime minister Ehud Olmert.
When reality truly overwhelms your worst imaginings
This is a Cri de Coeur from Israel for the government to end this nightmare by completing the deal it originally signed to release the remaining hostages, currently abandoned and left to their torturous fate.
The Govt’s Wrong, But Khalil’s No Champion of Free Speech
Khalil is no hero. It’s just that the way the government is mistreating him is unacceptable, unforgivable, and terrifying.