Palestinian children look out from their window in a section of a damaged apartment block, which was partially destroyed by Israel in 2014 in Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip, Feb. 22, 2016. Hatem Moussa | AP
Opinion & Analysis

What I Saw in Gaza Changed Me Forever

My true liberation as a Jewish person is bound up with the liberation of Palestinian people.

by Ned Rosch

How I Became an Anti-Israel Jew

“Was this what they died for? My relatives, all those Jews, all those thousands of names on the memorials? Was this horror of a racist, repressive state the result of their deaths?”

How I Became an Anti-Israel Jew

Bear with me. This is very difficult to write, but write it I must, however much the putting of words on paper intensifies the pain.

When I was a small girl on a street corner in Budapest, watching a convoy of camp inmates being returned, I cried. No, not tears. By

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Marika Sherwood

Marika Sherwood

Hungarian-born Marika Sherwood is the author of a number of books and articles. Her most recent books are After Abolition; Britain, The Slave Trade and Slavery from 1562 to the 1880s (2007); Origins of Pan-Africanism: Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa and the African Diaspora (2010); Malcolm X: Travels Abroad (2011); World War II: Colonies and Colonials. (2013). Her current research is on the beginning of the Cold War in the Gold Coast in 1948.

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Israel, Zionism And Judaism: Separating A National Identity From A Religious One

“Judaism is a religion and Zionism is a movement. For a lot of people, they don’t have a connection to a Jewish institution or community, so they look at Israel as a Jewish community,” an organizer for Jewish Voice for Peace tells MintPress.

Israel, Zionism And Judaism: Separating A National Identity From A Religious One

RAMALLAH --- Dan Cohen didn’t always write about Israeli apartheid or the Palestinian struggle. The Jewish journalist was raised in a community of Zionist-filled ideologies in Arizona, and it wasn’t until just a few years ago that he decided to dedicate his life to challenging the media’s narrative by gathering the truth

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Israel’s ‘Jewish State’ Bill Divides Nation

The bill is a variant of a proposal that would’ve made the same definition, but guaranteed equal rights for all ethnic and religious minorities. Netanyahu’s version removed all mentions of equal rights.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to push his bill to change the nation’s Basic Laws to define Israel as an exclusively Jewish State, despite growing signs that the wildly controversial bill is splitting the coalition, and indeed

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Muslim, Jewish Religious Leaders Offer Hope for Peace

In spite of the deeply entrenched Israel-Palestine conflict, religious leaders from both sides are working to bridge the divide.

Muslim, Jewish Religious Leaders Offer Hope for Peace

“The very word ‘peace’ has become negatively charged for many people,” observed Rabbi Amy Eilberg at a recent public lecture at Hamline University that brought together a rabbi and a qadi -- an Islamic judge -- from Israel to highlight peacemaking efforts on the part of religious leaders in Israel.

I brought a group

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