Analysis
What If Kobe Bryant Were an Imprisoned Palestinian Soccer Player?
Imagine if a member of Team USA Basketball—let’s say Kobe Bryant—had been traveling to an international tournament only to be seized by a foreign government and held in prison for three years without trial
United Methodist Church’s shameful failure to divest from injustice
This week, amidst the incredible ongoing mass hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners, some of them on the brink of starvation, the United Methodist Church failed to pass a resolution to divest from three major beneficiaries
Boycotting Israel in Kuwait: The Long Way Back
As the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel continues to grow internationally, it is lagging in the Arab World – particularly within Gulf monarchies
BDS for Palestinian Rights: “Equality or Nothing!”
The BDS movement is not asking for anything heroic from people of conscience. It is merely asking them to desist from complicity in oppression.
Justice requires action to stop subjugation of Palestinians
Today, regrettably, the time has come for similar action to force an end to Israel’s long-standing occupation of Palestinian territory and refusal to extend equal rights to Palestinian citizens
Should US churches divest from Israel?
As two US churches consider resolutions, we examine the BDS movement and ask if it helps or hinders peace efforts.
Why BDS doesn’t come with a map
In recent reactions to BDS, writers have offered criticism. This criticism, however, which views the question of Palestine through the prism of Zionism, is incapable of grappling with a movement that views the same question through a humanist perspective of rights
Why Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Should Be Used to Target Israeli Apartheid
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has been a significant instrument in the campaign to tear down Israel’s democratic facade
How detention without charge links Israel and apartheid South Africa
Of the more than 700,000 Palestinians that have been in jail since 1967, tens of thousands of those have been detained under administrative detention, including hundreds of children under the age of 16
Why We Need an Open Debate on Israel
Is Israel a threat to world peace? German writer Günter Grass has been blasted as an anti-Semite this week for making just such a claim in a new poem. Grass has kicked off an important — and long overdue — debate. And, he’s right
