Sumud, an Arabic word, embodies the ability to withstand hardship and maintain a sense of identity and purpose despite the challenges of…
An American president, a convicted felon, welcomed, for the third time this year, an indicted Israeli war criminal to the White House;…
We often have to heed the past to sort out the present. The urgency of “now” demands it. We need historical wisdom…
The Talmud contends that “Whosoever saves a single life is as if he had saved the whole world; whosoever destroys a single…
As the world watches, one of history’s greatest crimes has taken form. Inaction, complicity and silence in the face of genocide have…
Two hundred forty nine years ago, at the beginning of the American Revolution, it was the prose of a newly arrived immigrant…
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”Voltaire, Enlightenment author and philosopher (1694-1778) Since the 1979 Iranian Revolution,…
In the Orwellian world in which we now dwell, countries and groups that uphold international law are labeled terrorists or supporters of…
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight. Bob Marley, Jamaican composer…
To begin to correct the injustices that generations of Palestinians have faced, and to become “a society that can live with its…
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