There has been some consternation this week about comments that the (Israeli-government-paid) Rabbi of Beit El settlement made about the terrible fire at Paris’s Notre Dame cathedral. Rabbi Shlomo Aviner …
Statement issued by the Palestinian National Movement inside the Israeli occupation jails
[The following is a translation into English by Yousef al-Jamal of the text of the Arabic-language statement issued by the prisoners’ leaders. It provides valuable background to recent developments inside …
On Palestinian Prisoner Day: A Whole Captive Population Longing For Freedom
By Yousef M. Aljamal* NEWSFLASH!! Palestinian prisoners just ended their mass, open-ended hunger strike after they managed to force the Israeli Prison Service to install landlines in prisons which will …
Palestinian prisoners in Israel’s jail: Facts and resources
Prepared with the help of Yousef al-Jamal According to the Ramallah-based prisoners-rights organization Ad-Dameer, as of March 2019, 5,450 Palestinian political prisoners are in Israeli jails and they are scattered …
In Israel, it is governmental racism
by Amos Gvirtz* Israel’s extreme right-wing government has led to the normalization of racism and hypocrisy. The gap between the government’s internal racism and its war against anti-Semitic racism abroad …
Abu Artema speaks about Great March of Return at Carnegie Endowment
Every week for the past year, scores of thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have taken part in the nonviolent protests called the “Great March of Return.” But how …
Quandt, Tamimi are guests on JWE podcast episodes
In the second half of each of the two latest episodes of the “Story/Backstory” podcast, Just World Ed president Helena Cobban presented a conversation with an invited guest. In Episode …
Timely UN report says IDF soldiers likely committed war crimes and worse against Gaza’s march
At the end of February, a Commission of Inquiry established by the UN’s Human Rights Council issued a preliminary report on Israel’s response to the first nine months of the …
JWE’s new materials on Gaza, Hamas, and one-state proposal
As we approach the first anniversary of the Palestinians’ Gaza-based “Great March of Return ” mass nonviolent action, Just World Educational has been preparing a lot of GMR-related informational resources …
Episode 2 of “Story/Backstory” looks at US role in Palestine-Israel peacemaking
This week, in Episode 2 of our “Story/Backstory” project, JWE President Helena Cobban explored Washington’s 45-year-long monopolization of all peacemaking between Israel and its Arab neighbors (with a special focus …