Posts Tagged: Israel Human Rights
Black and Jewish: Braving the Pitfalls, Jews of Color Find Peace
JNS.org - It’s one of the few rap videos around that features a lead singer in frockcoat, tallis, and shtreimel -- paired with a cascade...
Reuters Blames Israel for Plight of Gaza Christians, Ignores Hamas Persecution
A December 10 Reuters piece written by Nidal al-Mughrabi rightly draws attention to the plight of Christians in the Gaza Strip. Yet the writer comes...
Peace with Israel Brings Improvements in Human Rights for Israel’s New Partners
One of the more absurd objections to Israel's normalization with new Arab countries was that since these countries are human rights violators, the new normalization...
Who Is Harming Palestinian Academic Freedom?
Not in Kansas Anymore: Academic Freedom in Palestinian Universities, by Cary Nelson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020) It is fundamental and axiomatic on the international...
Don’t Forget the Other Mideast Refugees: Mizrahi Jews
All refugees deserve a permanent home; governmental action is integral to the protection of this fundamental human right. Looking at the Middle East, we see...
Israel and the Palestinians: A Land for All
Those who see the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a purely political dispute over self-determination, territory, and security are missing the bigger picture. At its root, this...
Israel Respects Gay Rights; the Palestinians Do Not
The University of Pittsburgh’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) held a meeting in October on the topic of “pinkwashing” -- the accusation...
Bicyclists Pedal Thousands of Miles Across America to Aid Sick Kids in Israel
JNS.org - For 20 years, the “Wheels of Love” charity bike ride has created a community of riders from all over the world whose end...
Saeb Erekat: Why Israel Chose to Aid an Ailing Enemy
JNS.org - It’s the kind of story that drives a lot of friends of Israel nuts. One of its chief opponents, Palestinian Liberation Organization senior...
Israel Needs an Anti-Propaganda Agency
In October 2015, Israel’s political-security cabinet charged the Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy with the responsibility to fight the many delegitimization and boycott...
Palestinian Symbols (and Symbolism) Reveal a Bitter Mideast Truth
JNS.org - Partners for Progressive Israel, a left-of-center group that is part of the American Zionist Movement, is in the midst of a 12-session “digital...
You Won’t Get Peace by Weaponizing Lies Like ‘Apartheid’ Against Israel
On a long drive from my native Indiana to to the state of Virginia, I listened to a podcast wherein the interview subject began with...
Palestinian Gay Activists Hold Protest — in Haifa
AlQaws, the Palestinian LGBTQ group, will hold a protest against both Palestinian patriarchy and Israeli oppression on Wednesday. But they won’t be holding it in Ramallah...
Camp David 20 Years Later: The Oslo Delusion
JNS.org - It’s one anniversary that no one is celebrating. Twenty years ago this month, President Bill Clinton welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and...
