"The only recognizable feature of hope is action" - Grace Paley
Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern: “We are a proud nation of more than 200 ethnicities, 160 languages, and amongst our diversity we share common values, and the one we place currency on...
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.” – Martin Luther King in Birmingham jail, 1963 Our right...
Stanley Heller is executive director of the Middle East Crisis Committee (CT). He can be reached at mail@thestruggle.org. Our former vice president [of Middle East Crisis Committee], Mazin Qumsiyeh, is in Naples, Italy on...
From the U.S.-Mexico border to Palestine, the U.S. and Israel are separating kids from their families and imprisoning them. Decent people are outraged by the Trump administration’s abusive treatment of children, ripping them from...
>> NEW HAVEN Shelly Altman, chairman of Jewish Voice for Peace New Haven, was one of three people from the protest march who went inside DeLauro’s offices, looking to meet with the congresswoman. But DeLauro...
>> NEW HAVEN “Israel’s expertise in using lethal force and mass surveillance and racial profiling in decades of rule over Palestinians shouldn’t be the model for policing anywhere,” demonstration organizer and JVP member Susan...
The visit this week of former Israeli U.N. Ambassador Ron Prosor to the Slifka Center at Yale is a good time to reflect on Israel’s management of its relationship with Gaza since it “ended...
The hunger strike of Local 33 at Yale makes me think about a much larger hunger strike going inside the prisons of Israel. A few weeks ago Omar Barghouti’s Gandhi Peace Award acceptance speech...
Having just this month bicycled the length of the West Bank in Palestine from Jenin in the north to Hebron in the south, I feel no need to play “they say, I say” with...
Published in the New Haven Register April 30, 2017 The Israeli government’s policies towards Palestinians, and the behavior of some Israeli settlers, do not reflect the Jewish moral code by which I was raised....
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