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How The Gaza War Made This Brooklyn Artist Commit Her Life To Activism

Apr 5, 2016

By LAURENT FINTONI The Fader In late January I profiled Brooklyn poet Aja Monet and asked: where does art end(...)

Five Reasons Refugees Are Good for U.S. Security

Apr 5, 2016

By David Bier The Huffington Post In the wake of the ISIS terrorist attack in Brussels, some U.S. politicians are(...)

COMING TO AMERICA: Syrian refugee experience

Apr 5, 2016

By Megan Baynes Worcester Magazine (Editor’s Note: This is the second in a two-part series looking at refugees living in(...)

Letter from a Former Zionist Who Supports Justice for Palestine

Apr 5, 2016

By Donna NevelAlterNet Speaking as a “former Zionist” is no longer strange. In fact, it’s become quite common within some Jewish(...)

Syrian Refugee chefs bring their recipes to NYC

Apr 5, 2016

By DEEPTI HAJELA THE WORLD LINK The kitchen hums with activity. Rachana Rimal is at one table, making momos, the traditional dumplings(...)

A Muslim teacher is visiting a D.C. school to share Arabic and his culture

Apr 5, 2016

By Perry Stein The Washington Post Hallie Martinez stood in front of a large easel reading foreign letters that, a few months(...)

The Palestine Political Action Committee Endorses Presidential Candidate Senator Bernie Sanders

Apr 5, 2016

The Palestine Political Action Committee (PalestinePAC) announced today that its board of directors voted unanimously to endorse Democratic Presidential Candidate(...)

President of University of Michigan says there's no place for anti-Muslim discrimination on campus

Apr 4, 2016

Last week's pro-Donald Trump chalk messages on the sidewalks at the University of Michigan have sparked a debate over free(...)

Palestine Marathon sparks a growing push for movement over politics

Apr 4, 2016

By Jacqueline Kantor The Washington Post The finish line at the biggest race in the West Bank featured fresh-squeezed orange juice and(...)

Time Travel: Arab Spring on the Ground in “The Square”

Apr 4, 2016

BY SOPHIA STEIN CULTURAL WEEKLY Just about a year ago, director Jehane Noujaim accepted the Audience Award at Sundance Film(...)

Fighting Israeli Occupying Forces Is “Terrorism.” Boycotting Is “Anti-Semitism.” What’s Allowed?

Apr 4, 2016

BY Glenn Greenwald Intercept_ THAT “TERRORISM” IS a malleable term of propaganda, with no fixed meaning or consistent application, is(...)

Sanders is in Jewish tradition that rejected exceptionalist nationalism of Zionism

Apr 4, 2016

Philip Weiss MondoweissJesse Alexander Myerson has an excellent meditation on Bernie Sanders’s throw-back Jewish identity at the Village Voice. There is(...)