A veteran Palestinian activist embraces the Olmert/al-Kidwa plan for a two state solution. He outlines a key need for both Israelis and Palestinians to “gain control over their violent tendencies.”
While the world has been focusing on the Gaza war, Israel’s right-wing government has taken alarming new steps to expand West Bank settlements and their infrastructure.
Yonatan Zeigen, son of our dear friend and peace activist Vivian Silver who was murdered in kibbutz Be’eri on October 7, gave this beautiful speech at the Israeli-Palestinian Joint Memorial Ceremony that was held this week in Israel.
Most demonstrators may be against the existence of Israel as a country. This can be seen as anti-Zionism, but questioning the survival of a nation is actually worse than opposing an ideology (an “ism”).
Zahra Sakkejha and her peers wore purple T-shirts and held signs that read, “Free the Hostages, “Ceasefire Now,” “Diplomacy Now,” and “Not One More Drop of Blood!” They chanted, “In Gaza, in Tel Aviv, all the children want to live!”
While polls show widespread resistance to aid that will help hungry and homeless Gazans, there is an Israeli constituency that wants to help.
The deaths of children and other innocents in Gaza, mostly from US-supplied weaponry, are what’s driving campus protests. Too many non-combatants have died, but Israel is not trying to exterminate the Palestinian people.
This is a list of NGOs, some providing humanitarian relief in Israel and others in the Gaza Strip, which would benefit from financial support.
Project Shema “trains and supports the Jewish community and allies to understand and address contemporary antisemitism, with an emphasis on how anti-Jewish ideas can emerge in discourse around Israel and Palestine.”
There’s a refusal by some on the left to denounce Hamas as a violent terror group that not only committed a vile atrocity against Israelis, but has exercised authoritarian violence against Gazans for over 17 years. [Posted by permission of the Forward]
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