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Disrupting the Narrative: Israel and Palestine (Part I)

Posted on August 26, 2015August 25, 2015 by Abigail Clauhs

Abigail recently returned from a two-week-long Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East (UUJME) human rights delegation to Israel and Palestine. UUJME’s mission is “to promote pea... Read More

The Only Terrorist in Israel

Posted on August 3, 2015August 2, 2015 by Wilfredo Amr Ruiz

The only terrorist in Israel is one of Arab descent. At least, that is how it is portrayed by the media and dominant ideologues to the impressionable public either in a willful or extremely irresponsi... Read More

Arab Like Me: Rachel Dolezal and My Anxious Jewish Mask

Posted on July 30, 2015July 29, 2015 by Ilona Gerbakher

Am I the Jewish Rachel Dolezal? I was sitting in my East Jerusalem apartment in a Moroccan djellaba, Abdel Halim Hafez warbling from the stereo, sipping mint tea and reading a New Yorker article about... Read More

The Self-Hating Jew/The Islamophobe

Posted on May 7, 2015May 6, 2015 by Ilona Gerbakher

I haven’t written publicly about my life in Israel since I moved here. The truth is I’m scared to face the inevitable backlash that follows any time you write anything about this country. ... Read More

Faith, Race, and Terror

Posted on August 14, 2012August 13, 2012 by Phillipe Copeland

Article first published as Faith, Race, and Terror on Blogcritics. It’s mourning in America again. Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote that the blood of the innocent cries forever. We join our cries wi... Read More

Averting Your Eyes: The Devastating Consequences of Ignoring Women’s Rights

Posted on April 3, 2011April 3, 2011 by Danielle Elizabeth Tumminio

I was walking down the crowded, cobblestoned streets of Jerusalem’s Old City when a bearded man with narrow eyes reached out his hand and tried to grab my breast. I did not know him. I had not... Read More