Perspectives
Pro-Israel Groups That Tried to Cancel Palestine Writes Festival Incite Hatred Against Palestinians
On the eve of the historic Palestine Writes literature festival this past weekend, the Philadelphia air felt heavy with the pollution of vitriol and hatred. Attacks on the festival’s organizers, speakers, and supporters were expected, because there’s almost never a time or place in the United States when Palestinians can speak freely and without fear about their own life experience and dreams…
New York State Should Revoke Charitable Status of Groups that Fund Extremist Israeli Settlers
I have never known freedom. Not one day. I was born in Atuwani, a village in the West Bank shaped by Israeli military occupation and settler violence. Every day we risk beatings, incarceration, or even death, just to harvest our fields, graze our livestock, and build our homes. If you go to YouTube and search “settler violence, South Hebron Hills” you will see page after page of video…