FORUM: Israel’s history indeed ‘complicated’
I remember May, 1948. I was nearly 7, in a Jewish Sunday school class, when our teacher told us that many Jewish people had left Europe to start a new life in Palestine, and...
Category: Op-Eds
Who Are the Terrorists?
By Nina Stein On Friday, August 28, Iyad Burnat, a resident of the West Bank Palestinian village of Bil’in, was ambushed and brutally beaten by Israeli soldiers. His crime: participating in a peaceful, non-violent...
Why Does Connecticut Continue to Invest in Israel?
The decision on June 30 of the million-member United Church of Christ to join in measures of BDS — boycotts, divestments and sanctions — to pressure the Israeli government is of great, perhaps historic...
To heal the world, start with the truth
An op-ed by Bob Gelbach and Shelly Altman (July 2014): The tragic murder of three Israeli boys has brought anguish to Israelis and to many Americans, in particular American Jews. We count ourselves among them. One...
