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Marianne Dhenin: Educators Worry Palestine Censorship Could Reshape Public Education Entirely

New efforts to shut down honest discussion of Palestine could restrict everything from literature to science classes

November 30, 2025 · 11 Comments

Mattea Kramer: How Trump Uses Our Fear of Antisemitism to Further His Fascist Agenda

An Unexpected Con to End Free Speech

November 25, 2025 · 8 Comments

Adam Patric Miller: The Sound of a Teacher’s Silence

As a person of Jewish heritage I can’t be silent about a genocide. Jews aren’t the only people who’ve been threatened with annihilation.

November 3, 2025 · 6 Comments

Adam Patric Miller: October 14

I walk for miles at night
arguing with a half-century old friend
who talks about the Middle East
like it’s a problem to be solved

October 16, 2025 · 7 Comments

David Lauterstein: Lulav

I am a Jew. I am ashamed of those wanting to kill.
The people of Gaza shake their own bodies
in six directions, with nowhere to go,
their only harvest, soil.

October 7, 2025 · 9 Comments

Rabbi Angela Buchdahl:  The Cries of Isaac and Ishmael

We can feel brokenhearted for the suffering of the children of Isaac and of Ishmael. We must.

September 28, 2025 · 13 Comments

Jessica Corbett: Spain Joins Italy in Sending Ship to Protect Gaza-Bound Sumud Flotilla

The UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories implored other countries “to mobilize their fleet to grant the flotilla safe sailing to Gaza, and deploy a real humanitarian convoy to break the blockade.”

September 26, 2025 · 3 Comments

Hend Salama Abu Helow: Olive Trees Tie Palestinians to Our Homeland. Israel Treats Them as a Threat

They feared the olive trees — the trees that know, more than anyone, who the true owners of this land are.

September 7, 2025 · 11 Comments

Naomi Shihab Nye: A Palestinian Might Say

What?
You don’t feel at home in your country,
almost overnight?

September 5, 2025 · 14 Comments

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies: How the UN Can Act Decisively to End Genocide in Gaza

What is urgently needed is for the General Assembly to hold an Emergency Special Session to vote on a UN protection force, as well as a UN-led arms embargo, trade boycott, and divestment from Israel. 

September 4, 2025 · 5 Comments

Wayne Hsiung: The 10,000-Year Famine

The failure of storytelling leads to calamity. Hannah Arendt, in her studies of atrocities, notes that they are typically the result of inattention rather than malice.

September 3, 2025 · 5 Comments

Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi: Those With Chronic Illness in Gaza Say They’re Denied a Bare Minimum to Survive

This is an engineered famine — deliberate starvation under Israeli siege: Markets are empty. Aid trucks are blocked. Weeds are being boiled for soup.

September 2, 2025 · 5 Comments

Todd Friedman: Two Poems

Israel, you have become like Joseph’s brothers
who abandoned him in an empty cistern
and then sat down to a feast.

September 2, 2025 · 13 Comments

Matthew J. Parker: How Courage, Kindness, and Creative Iconoclasm Can Counter the Tramp of Fascist Feet

I’m alarmed by this new wave of attacks on our institutions.

August 27, 2025 · 2 Comments

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