Dr Said Zeedani is an associate professor of philosophy at Al-Quds University. This article is published in +972. As any political solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict seems to have been pushed beyond the horizon by…
Author: AJDS
Tom Pessah is a sociologist and activist. (translated by Yoni Molad). Originally published in +972 Seventy years after the violent displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, it is time to undo the…
Donna Nevel is a community psychologist and educator living in the US. She is a coordinating team member (along with Nava EtShalom, Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark, and Rabbi Alissa Wise) of the Facing the Nakba project….
Sivan Barak is a social worker and member of the AJDS committee. Her chapter in beyond tribal loyalties. This is an excerpt from Sivan’s chapter in Beyond Tribal Loyalties. A Palestinian friend recently responded…
Rebecca Vilkomerson is the executive director of Jewish Voice for Peace. (Photo Credit: Christopher Hazou) Originally published in Ha’aretz. Liberal Zionists: If you oppose injustice, white supremacy, Muslim bans and deportations in America, oppose them in Israel as…
(originally published in Asian American Writers Workshop) A hijacked plane in 1969 lands in Damascus. This means a plane was unable to fly away, to Tel Aviv. I read about the incident in the…
(Complete article published May 16, 2018 by Literary Hub) Yesterday, the global Palestinian community marked the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the catastrophic destruction of the Palestinian homeland and dispossession of over 750,000 Palestinians from…
How do we, as left-wing Australian Zionists, confront and balance the commemoration of the Nakba and the celebration of 70 years of Israel’s independence? When looking towards the future, how can we consolidate an egalitarian,…
Ilana Sumka lives in Belgium and is an educator, writer and activist working to end the Israeli occupation. Jordy Silverstein lives in Australia and is an historian and writer, and author of Anxious Histories: Narrating…
Larry Stillman is an academic who trained at Hebrew University and Harvard. He leads a community development project in Bangladesh with Oxfam. This is an edited version of the original article published in Arena magazine,…