by Jesus of Nazareth Jerusalem of the Heavens, February 16 – OK, this is a relatively new one. I’ve been called all manner of things, and I’ll be the first to acknowledge no all those things are consistent with “Son ...
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Feed SubscriptionWe Call Jews ‘Settlers’ Not Because We Think It Justifies Killing Them, But Because *You* Do
By Jibril Rajoub, Palestinian Official Ramallah, February 7 – Each time one of our heroic fighters guns down, stabs, runs over, blows up, or otherwise harms Jews, our official and unofficial propaganda machines rush to characterize the targets as “settlers,” ...
Read More »Powerful Jewish Interests Kept Me From The Presidency Of This Synagogue
By Kenneth Roth, former Director of Human Rights Watch New York, January 26 – It’s happened again. Just weeks after America’s premier educational and research institution bowed to pro-Israel donors and rescinded its offer to me of a position, now ...
Read More »How Can I Make This About Palestine?
by Patricia Elton, Thomas Alva Edison Elementary School Annual Bake Sale Chair Effington, January 18 – This February will mark my second time in a row coordinating our institution’s biggest fundraiser of the year, but the first time I will ...
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Read More »Human Rights Demand Migrants Must Stay In Israel, A Horrible Racist Country
by Balila Haki, Btselem activist Tel Aviv, December 29 – I do not know how to make my organization’s position on this matter any clearer. Our assertion, born of dedication to moral sensitivity and global awareness, is and remains that ...
Read More »That War Could’ve Been An Email
by King Hussein of Jordan Amman, December 20 – OK, I’ll say it: our efforts were not entirely an exercise in futility, but they were a massive waste of resources, time, and manpower to accomplish next to nothing. In other ...
Read More »I Get To Reclaim My Ancestors’ Home Because They Sided With A Failed Genocide
by Issa Awad, Palestine Refugee Tulkarm, December 8 – The morality of the situation is clear: my forebears fled Haifa in anticipation of Arab liberators slaughtering the Jews of the city and making ample plunder available, but when that didn’t ...
Read More »You Zionists Are Trying To Kidnap What We Arabs Have Rightfully Stolen
by Vizzini Florin, November 30 – So. It is down to you – and it is down to me. There will be no negotiation. And you’re killing the Zionist project. There’s nothing to explain. You Zionists are trying to kidnap ...
Read More »Iranian Women Should Shut Up And Take It
by Linda Sarsour New York, November 21 – Bad-faith critics have seized on my understated response to events in the Islamic Republic in the last month-plus, depicting my alleged silence in the face of the unrest there as an endorsement ...
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