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Why Baby Boomers Are Out of Touch on Israel/Palestine
Baby Boomers have struggled to evolve their views on Palestine.
A brief history of peace talks, Israel & the Palestinians
Who is to blame for failures in 2000, 2001 & 2008?
What a Jewish State means for Palestinians
The Jewish State systematically dominates Palestinians—whether they live in Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem or Israel.
How Israeli Violence Radicalized Hamas
Israel’s long-standing policy of disproportionate and indiscriminate violence has had a radicalizing effect on Palestinian militant groups.
Why the Oslo Peace Process Failed
The idea of the two-state solution was an idea born out of the Oslo Process, which laid the faulty foundation for everything to follow.
"There is no moral equivalency between Israel & Hamas."
It would be difficult to exaggerate just how important this argument is in Israel’s public relations war.
Why the Israeli Military has a 100% failure rate “eradicating” Palestinian violence
To eradicate Palestinian violence, Israel must address the root causes of it.
The forgotten Palestinian hostages held in Israeli concentration camps
Israeli abductees v. Palestinian abductees, a tale of two peoples
A Brief History of Israel's Expulsion Policies
Zionist thinkers from the 1890s until 1948 asked themselves the same question: How to establish a Jewish state in a land that is mostly non-Jews?
Do Israelis support genocide?
Israeli genocide scholar Raz Segal has concluded that what is happening right now in Gaza amounts to genocide
A Brief History of Israel's Wars on Gaza, 2008-2023
Israel committed war crimes in 2008, 2012, 2014, 2018-9 & 2021
How to Write Palestinian History
Meet Saleem Elrayes, the #1 antique book dealer in Palestine
A Brief History of Zionist Anti-Semitism
A vicious campaign is underway to conflate criticism of Israel with antisemitism, and it is succeeding at silencing Israel’s critics. So let’s set the record straight.
Jewish anti-Zionism before 1948
Fact Check: The Jewish people ≠ the State of Israel. So let’s do a deepish dive into Jewish criticism of the Zionist movement before 1948.
When Palestinians embraced Jewish history
In the wake of Mahmoud Abbas's bigoted comments last week, I want to share an under appreciated episode of Palestinian history.
How Israel de-developed Palestine
Let’s talk about Israel’s occupation in the early years, specifically, it’s economic policies.
What did the Palestinian 🇵🇸 flag 🇵🇸 look like before 1964?
The first question I had when I saw these beautiful hand-drawn flags was — where did they come from?
Who called Palestine, “Palestine” in the 1870s?
The word Palestine appears regularly in Ottoman archival documents, published texts, atlases & maps from the the 1870s onwards.
72% of Aid to Palestinians Ends Up in Israel
An estimated 72% of aid intended for Palestine ends up benefitting the Israeli economy.
Was there conflict in Palestine between Jews & Arabs before Zionism?
In 1880, Palestine’s religious communities had been living in relative harmony for decades.