HEDY EPSTEIN (1924-2016): HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, PALESTINIAN RIGHTS CHAMPION, ANTI-ZIONIST.

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- West Orange, NJ, Town Council: Don’t Celebrate an Apartheid State! March 22, 2023
- Tell the ADL: your lies will never silence the movement for Palestinian liberation! June 29, 2022
- Open Letter Against Rutgers MOU With Tel Aviv University January 20, 2022
- Jews for Palestinian Right of Return: Solidarity with Khaled Barakat and Palestine Free Speech in Germany July 27, 2019
- Open Letter to New Jersey Legislature: Vote NO on Fake “Prohibiting Anti-Semitism” Bill July 24, 2019
- Stop Ban of Palestine Children’s Book at Highland Park NJ Public Library! May 22, 2019
- Tell Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Stand By Your Principles — Stand With Palestine! July 22, 2018
- In the Spirit of Dr. King: Condemn the Land Day Massacre — No Arms for Apartheid Israel! April 4, 2018
- Anti-Zionism is Not Anti-Semitic: Reinstate Moshé Machover to the British Labour Party October 23, 2017
- Stop Fascism & White Supremacy: National Day of Action in Solidarity with Berkeley August 27, 2017
- Updated: 100 Groups Call on Congress to Oppose Israel Anti-Boycott Act August 9, 2017
- LIVESTREAM: From PALESTINE to MEXICO, ALL THE WALLS have got to go! March 22, 2017
- ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION: “From Palestine to Mexico, All the Walls Have Got to Go!” March 22, 2017
- Coalition Calls for General Strike and Mega-March on May 1st February 22, 2017
- We Stand With Palestinian Rights Activist Christoph Glanz Against Zionist Witch-Hunt October 13, 2016
- Jews for Palestinian Right of Return Salutes Movement for Black Lives August 8, 2016
- JPRR Opposition to Gov. Cuomo’s Anti-BDS Blacklist, NY MTA Board Meeting June 22, 2016
- Letwin Takes Down NYT Columnist Charges of Anti-Semitism (David Letwin at 2016 Left Forum Conference, NYC) May 31, 2016
- HEDY EPSTEIN (1924-2016): HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, PALESTINIAN RIGHTS CHAMPION, ANTI-ZIONIST. May 27, 2016
- Salute to graduate employee members of UAW 2110, 2322, and 2865 for respecting the BDS picket line against apartheid Israel! April 30, 2016
- CHRGJ Co-Hosts Conference on The Palestinian Right of Return: A Legal and Political Analysis April 2, 2016
- Elements of Oppression: David Letwin (Interview) January 26, 2016
- 2015.10.16: Local’s Family Caught in Middle East Violence (NBC 7 San Diego) November 6, 2015
- JFPROR IAW Message to Gaza: We Do Have Brothers and Sisters Beyond This Horizon March 17, 2015
- In Photos — Jews in Solidarity With Palestinian Right of Return March 13, 2015
- Sign-On: Netanyahu’s Apartheid Israel Does Not Speak For Us March 10, 2015
- Sign-On: New York City Council Members: Protesting Apartheid Is Not Anti-Semitic! February 14, 2015
- Please Sign: Defend Palestine Supporters from “Anti-Semitism” Slander November 24, 2014
- Tikva Honig-Parnass: Zionist Left support for the bloody assaults on Gaza signifies its erasure from Israel’s political map September 30, 2014
- Kicked Off Facebook, and Wondering Why (New York Times) September 19, 2014
- Letter: Marzec has been “defamed” for her courageous stand against Israel (Athens Post) September 6, 2014
- Sign on: Jews Say: End the War on Gaza — No Aid to Apartheid Israel! July 22, 2014
- BDS lays the basis for a true peace process (Mondoweiss) June 4, 2014
- Image: We say ‘No’ to a ‘Jewish State’ anywhere in historic Palestine March 19, 2014
- Sign: Jews of Conscience Salute the ASA for Boycotting Apartheid Israel February 14, 2014
- Interview with Dr. Haidar Eid: ‘The Palestinian struggle is not about independence — it is about liberation’ December 2, 2013
- Jews For Palestinian Right Of Return: Updated List (294 Signers, 419 Allies) April 17, 2013
- Akiva “Aki” Orr: A working-class hero April 1, 2013
- JFPROR in the Press: Billboards call to end US aid for Israel in New York (Jerusalem Post) March 28, 2013
- Join Growing Support of Jews For Palestinian Right of Return March 28, 2013
- Additional Endorsers and Statements of Support: 762+ March 28, 2013
- JFPROR Supports Anti-Apartheid Campaign: AMP gratified by New York supports anti-apartheid ads; Addresses ADL charge March 26, 2013
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- 2013.02.04: Brooklyn College SJP to Hold Press Conference in Support of Brooklyn College’s Continued Support for Academic Freedom and Expression on Campus February 4, 2013
- 2013.02.04: Ways you can help Brooklyn College Student for Justice in Palestine February 4, 2013
- 2013.02.01: Jews for Palestinian Right of Return Stands With Brooklyn College BDS Event February 1, 2013
- Additional Endorsers and Statements of Support: 570+ January 20, 2013
- Join Growing Support of Jews For Palestinian Right of Return January 12, 2013
- Updated: 468+ Additional Supporters (+40 Initial Signers) January 12, 2013
- Jews for Palestinian Right of Return Update January 9, 2013
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Links to Activism
- Al-Awda New York, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition || We provide political and legal support to our communities as well as an organizing base to struggle to fight racism and oppression here in New York, and the U.S. as a whole, as well to liberate Palestine.
- Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) || The Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) is a grassroots organization working to address economic, social, and political impacts of anti-Arab racism through direct services, political education, organizing, and advocacy.
- Bay Area Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid (BACEIA) || The Bay Area Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid (BACEIA) is a grassroots effort to engage people in boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) work. We are asking people to take our pledge to boycott Israeli goods, support the Palestinian fair trade economy,
- Block the Boat for Gaza (Oakland) || We are a growing coalition of activists & organizers calling for a blockade on Israeli Zim container ships in solidarity with the Palestinian People.
- Block the Boat Los Angeles || Stop the siege on Gaza! End the colonial occupation of Palestine! Right of Return for all Palestinian refugees!
- Block the Boat NYC: Boycott Apartheid Israel || We are a growing coalition of activists & organizers calling for a blockade on Israeli Zim container ships in solidarity with the Palestinian People.
- Block The Boat Tampa || Block the Boat Tampa is seeking to bring together support for Palestinians and do our part in global fight against Israeli apartheid
- Block the Boat Vancouver ||
- Boycott From Within: Palestinians, Jews, citizens of Israel, join the Palestinian Call for a BDS campaign against Israel || We, Palestinians, Jews, citizens of Israel, join the Palestinian call for a BDS campaign against Israel, inspired by the struggle of South Africans against apartheid. We also call on others to do the same.
- BRICUP | British Committee for Universities for Palestine || BRICUP is an organisation of UK based academics, set up in response to the Palestinian Call for Academic Boycott.
- Electronic Intifada || The Electronic Intifada (ei) is a not-for-profit, independent online publication which covers the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a Palestinian perspective, “aimed at combating the pro-Israeli, pro-American spin” its editors believe exists in mainst
- International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) ||
- Israel Divestment Campaign: Calling on California's largest public pension fund to divest || A California initiative calling on public employee pension funds to divest from and to refrain from investing in corporations complicit in Israel’s violations of universal human rights and international law
- Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) || ICAHD is a human rights and peace organisation dedicated to ending the prolonged Israeli Occupation over the Palestinians.
- Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods || We are Jews resident in the UK who support the Palestinian call for a boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign to hold Israel to account for decades of breaching international law. J-BIG is part of the Boycott Israel Network.
- Jews for Palestinian Right of Return Facebook Site || Join, invite friends to, and repost the Facebook event page at: https://www.facebook.com/events/123495234483983/
- July 15, 2010: Al-Awda NY: The Way Forward for Palestine Solidarity || Now more than ever, it is time for the solidarity movement to align itself with the growing number of Palestinians in the 1967 occupied territories, the refugee communities, and within the 1948 lands calling for a single democratic Palestinian state.
- Labor for Palestine (U.S.) || Labor for Palestine (U.S.) was launched in 2004, responding to Palestinian calls for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, in order to serve as a framework to mobilize labor support in the U.S. for Palestinian workers’ struggle for justice.
- Mondoweiss || Mondoweiss is a news website devoted to covering American foreign policy in the Middle East, chiefly from a progressive Jewish perspective.
- NYC Solidarity with Palestine || In this Palestine solidarity group we came together seeking to broaden the work being done on Palestine by opening up more expansive spaces of resistances.
- One Democratic State Group || Diverse group of Palestinian activists, from various backgrounds, who have come together to further peace with justice in the Middle East.
- Palestine Justice Network || To build a global network of activists and organizations that work together in advocacy in order to support the goals set forth by the Palestinian Civil Society Call to Action 2005.
- PalestineRemembered.com || To preserve the memories and the experiences of the Palestinian people around the world, especially the 726,000 Palestinians refugees who were ethnically cleansed from their homes, farms, and businesses as a result of the 1948 war. Currently, the dispos
- Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) || Worldwide Palestinian coordinating body for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against apartheid Israel.
- Palestinian Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel || The Campaign built on the Palestinian call for a comprehensive economic, cultural and academic boycott of Israel issued in A ugust 2002 and a statement made by Palestinian academics and intellectuals in the occupied territories and in the Diaspora calling
- Pscabi: Palestinian Students Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel || We are a group of Palestinian students based in Gaza who came together amidst the collective punishment of our people under Israel’s medieval siege and after the Israeli regime’s horrific attacks on Gaza over the New Year of 2009, that left 1400 of us Pal
- Renounce Birthright || “Taglit-Birthright, which was founded in 1999, offers the “gift” of a free, 10-day trip to Israel for Jewish youth between the ages of 18-25. We are young Jews living in the diaspora committed to mobilizing for the abolition of Birthright.”
- Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network || Network of organizers and activists, based in North America, working to build solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in their struggle for freedom.
- Shrinking Palestine Map Cards || “For centuries the land of Palestine was inhabited by a diverse population of Muslims, Christians, and Jews – most of them Arab. That all began to change during the first half of the 1900s when a group in Europe called Zionists began a colonial enterp
- Students for Justice in Palestine || Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is an anti-Zionist, pro-Palestinian college student activism organization in the United States, Canada and New Zealand that has campaigned for boycott and divestment against corporations that deal with Israel, and o
- U.S.-Middle East & North Africa Labor Solidarity Network || Collective of U.S. based labor organizers and activists supporting Workers’ Struggles in the Middle East and North Africa. Group Facilitators and Members work closely with allies in Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Tunisia, Turkey, and other areas of the Regio
- UAW 2865 Vote Yes on BDS || This is a community of UAW 2865 members and their allies who are in favor of voting YES on December 4th to join the BDS movement and the academic boycott.
- US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) || Responding to the call of Palestinian civil society to join the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction movement against Israel, we are a U.S. campaign focused specifically on a boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions, as delineated by PACBI (Pales
- US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation || The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation is the largest and most diverse coalition working to change U.S. policy toward Palestine/Israel to support human rights, international law, and equality.
- US Palestinian Community Network || The USPCN is an arena where individuals and organizations come together to coordinate and refine strategies, link efforts, plan united actions, and inform one another and the community about their work on behalf of Palestine.
- Zochrot || Zochrot (“Remembering”) seeks to raise public awareness of the Palestinian Nakba, especially among Jews in Israel, who bear a special responsibility to remember and amend the legacy of 1948.
Links to Additional Materials
- Adalah: The Discriminatory Laws Database || In March 2013, Adalah launched the Discriminatory Laws Database, an online resource that collects more than 50 Israeli laws enacted since 1948 that directly or indirectly discriminate against Palestinian citizens of Israel in all areas of life.
- Ali Abunimah: As threats to Jews said to mount in Europe, Israeli minister gets “excited” (Electronic Intifada, Jan. 2, 2015) || Fighting racism means fighting Zionism and anti-Semitism.
- Ali Abunimah: “Balance” in UN Gaza report can’t hide massive Israeli war crimes (Electronic Intifada, June 22, 2015 || Nothing is more legitimate than Palestinian resistance and nothing is more illegitimate than Israeli occupation. And yet it is to Israel that weapons of massive destruction continue to flow.
- Ali Abunimah: By recognizing “State of Palestine,” Sweden could harm Palestinians (Electronic Intifada, Oct. 6, 2014) || While recognizing the “State of Palestine” excites and pleases many who support the Palestinian cause, people should not to get carried away with the aesthetics of “statehood” in what would amount to a bantustan.
- Ali Abunimah: The Battle for Justice in Palestine (March 25, 2014) || The so-called “two-state solution” is a means to rescue Israeli apartheid at the expense of the rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel and Palestinian refugees who under its terms must be permanently barred from returning home in order to guarantee
- Ali Abunimah: Why I want Obama to veto Abbas’ UN resolution on Palestine (Electronic Intifada, Dec. 8, 2014) || I believe in a positive vision of a Palestine whole and free, where all people live in a decolonized and reunified territory without discrimination based on religion or ethnicity and without sectarian territorial partition.
- Ali Abunimah: Why is the American Federation of Teachers promoting Israeli apartheid? (Electronic Intifada, March 26, 2015) || Here, Weingarten really lays out her cards. Her interactions with and ostensible concern for Palestinians are nothing but a liberal cover for Jewish nationalism. In the end she represents the Israeli army as the answer to the Holocaust.
- Antony Loewenstein (Editor), Ahmed Moor (Editor): After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine (Aug. 28, 2012) || After Zionism brings together some of the world’s leading thinkers on the Middle East question to dissect the century-long conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians, and to explore possible forms of a one-state solution.
- Asa Winstanley: The changing Zionist narrative on Ferguson (Middle East Monitor, Dec. 4, 2014) || The way the Zionist narrative on Ferguson shifted like this is most interesting. It went from “move along, nothing to see here” to “yes the the two groups are similar and their oppression is their own fault.”
- Ben White and Haneen Zoabi: Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy (Dec. 20, 2011) || White demonstrates how the consistent emphasis on privileging one ethno-religious group over another cannot be seen as compatible with democratic values and that, unless addressed, will undermine any attempts to find a lasting peace.
- Ben White: Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide (Aug. 4, 2009) || Succinctly explaining the origins of Zionist theory and colonisation and details the treatment of Palestinians during the creation of Israel in 1948 then proceeds to examine current examples of Israeli apartheid.
- Bill Simonds: ‘God bless the young folks who took to the streets': African-American clergy draw parallels between Baltimore and Palestine (Mondoweiss, May 7, 2015) || I have to stand against racism whether it exists in the United States of America, or whether it exists in Palestine, or whether it exists in South Africa, or whether it exists any place on this earth.
- Boycott National Committee: Israel votes for permanent occupation and apartheid – it must face international isolation (March 19, 2015) || The biggest losers in the Israeli election are the Israeli right parties that wear left masks, like Labor and Tzipi Livni’s party.
- Charlotte Silver: Palestinians and #BlackLivesMatter activists unite for Bay Area direct action (Electronic Intifada, January 17, 2015) || “My role as a Palestinian American is inextricably tied to the Black struggle and it is imperative to stand side by side to fight racist wars.”
- David Lloyd: The nightmare hidden within liberal Zionism (Electronic Intifada, Dec. 21, 2013) || In this malicious shell game, Palestinians and other “non-Jews” face not only discrimination, but permanent exclusion from fundamental rights that in virtually every other state — and any claiming to be a “democracy” — are entailed upon citize
- Electronic Intifada || The Electronic Intifada (ei) is a not-for-profit, independent online publication which covers the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a Palestinian perspective, “aimed at combating the pro-Israeli, pro-American spin” its editors believe exists in mainst
- Estelle Cooch: Israel in isolation (Socialist Review, December 2012) || As long as Zionism is the only accepted framework in Israeli society, those interested in Palestinian liberation cannot afford to waste their time looking to the Israeli working class for change.
- FACT SHEET: 65th Anniversary of the Adoption of Plan Dalet (IMEU, March 8, 2013) || In June 1938, Ben-Gurion told a meeting of the Jewish Agency: “I support compulsory transfer. I don’t see anything immoral in it.”
- Fawaz Turki: The Disinherited: Journal of a Palestinian Exile (Jan. 1, 1972) || The author writes his experience as a Palestinian refugee, gives the reader an idea of how Palestinians have been through numerous problems and crisis ever since their exodus from THEIR land in 1948 by the Zionists.
- Ghada Karmi (Editor), Eugene Cotran (Editor): The Palestinian Exodus, 1948-1998 (Jan. 1, 1999) || It explores the themes of compensation for Palestinians, the right of return of the refugees to Israel and the feasibility of return.
- Ghada Karmi: Married to Another Man: Israel's Dilemma in Palestine (May 20, 2007) || The only logical solution is one democratic state for all those who live on the land of historic Palestine and Palestinian refugees.
- Ghassan Kanafani: The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine (1972) ||
- Haidar Eid: The Palestinian answer to Netanyahu's victory (Middle East Eye, March 19, 2015) || We must intensify the BDS campaign, declare the end of the Oslo Accords and the two-state solution, and call for a unitary democratic state.
- Haidar Eid: We cannot liberate Palestine with colonized minds (Electronic Intifada, April 20, 2015) || Israel must be clearly told that the single demand of Palestinians is for a true, multi-party democracy throughout historic Palestine based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- Hajo G. Meyer: The End of Judaism: An Ethical Tradition Betrayed (Aug. 23, 2012) || In his observations, deeply colored by his personal experiences during the Holocaust, Meyer compares Israel’s current policies with the early stages of the Nazis’ persecution of the German Jews.
- IJAN: The Business of Backlash: The Attack on the Palestinian Movement and Other Movements for Social Justice ( March 2015)|| Reveals the financing behind the attacks across the United States against those who have been organizing in support of Palestine.
- Ilan Pappe: Ilan Pappe on the western awakening and what it means for Israel/Palestine (Mondoweiss, May 11, 2015) The Jewish community abroad’s role is to help divorce Zionism from Judaism so that a spade – colonialism- can be called a spade.
- Ilan Pappe: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Sept. 1, 2007) || Decisively debunking the myth that the Palestinian population left of their own accord in the course of this war, Ilan Pappe offers impressive archival evidence to demonstrate that, from its very inception, a central plank in Israel’s founding ideology
- Ilan Pappe: The messages from Israel’s election (Electronic Intifada, March 20, 2015) || Zionism is still colonialism and hence anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism but anti-colonialism.
- Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) || Both through its website and its staff, the IMEU works with journalists to increase the public’s understanding about the socio-economic, political and cultural aspects of Palestine, Palestinians and Palestinian Americans.
- Israel’s Worldwide Role in Repression || Collective effort of organizations and activists impacted by and fighting the role that Israel, as a junior partner to the United States and settler colonial State in the Middle East (Southwest Asia/North Africa), and Zionist organizations play in repress
- J Street, a Dead End for Palestinians || J Street and AIPAC pursue essentially the same goal of Jewish supremacy in historic Palestine.
- Jadaliyya || Jadaliyya (“dialectic”) is a free ezine founded in 2010. It features English, Arabic, French, and Spanish-language content by academics, journalists, activists, and artists from and/or on the Middle East and is produced by the Arab Studies Institute (ASI)
- John Rose: Israel: The Hijack State: The Struggle to Liberate Palestine (July 1986) || The most important single event which occurred during the period of the British Mandate was the Palestinian General Strike in 1936.
- Joseph Levine: On Questioning the Jewish State (NY Times, March 9, 2013) || If an ethnic national state is established in a territory that contains a significant number of non-members of that ethnic group, it will inevitably face resistance from the land’s other inhabitants.
- Joseph Massad: Israel and the politics of boycott (Al Jazeera, March 19, 2015) || As they have done throughout their history, Zionism and Israel will continue to support any boycott that seeks to institutionalise racism and racial separatism and will denounce any boycott that seeks to end racism and racial separatism.
- Joseph Massad: Palestinians and the dilemmas of solidarity (Electronic Intifada, May 14, 2015) || it is the end of the Zionist colonial venture, starting with the removal (and not the reform) of all the racist and colonial legal and institutional structures that it has erected that is the precondition for lasting justice and peace for all the inhabita
- Joseph Massad: Recognizing Palestine, BDS and the survival of Israel (Electronic Intifada, Dec. 16, 2014) || Rather than call on the international community to adopt BDS without an explicit commitment to its goals, Palestinians must insist that those in solidarity with them adopt BDS as a strategy and not as a goal, in order to bring about an end to Israel’s r
- Joseph Massad: The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians (May 27, 2006) || A solution to the Palestinian Question will not be found unless settler-colonialism, racism, and anti-Semitism are abandoned as the ideological framework for a resolution.
- Joseph Massad: The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians (May 27, 2006) || Deeply researched and documented, this book analyzes the failure of the ‘peace process’ and proposes that a solution to the Palestinian Question will not be found unless settler-colonialism, racism, and anti-Semitism are abandoned as the ideological f
- July 15, 2010: Al-Awda NY: The Way Forward for Palestine Solidarity || Now more than ever, it is time for the solidarity movement to align itself with the growing number of Palestinians in the 1967 occupied territories, the refugee communities, and within the 1948 lands calling for a single democratic Palestinian state.
- Labor for Palestine (U.S.) || Labor for Palestine (U.S.) was launched in 2004, responding to Palestinian calls for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, in order to serve as a framework to mobilize labor support in the U.S. for Palestinian workers’ struggle for justice.
- Lenni Brenner and Matthew Quest: Black Liberation and Palestine Solidarity (Oct. 22, 2013) || Marxist analysis of liberation movements and United States history and Palestine Solidarity activists.
- Lenni Brenner: Zionism in the Age of Dictators: A Reappraisal (January 1, 1983) || In Zionism in the Age of the Dictators Lenni Brenner searches through the Zionist record — and finds evidence that it sought the patronage and benevolence of the avowed anti-Semites and, ultimately, the collaboration of the Fascists and Nazis. In a care
- Marc H. Ellis: Divestment with a bite (Mondoweiss, June 13, 2015) || Stop hedging church bets on a two state solution, security for Jews etc., and declare Israel a rogue state, supported by an unjust, imperial, United States.
- Max Blumenthal: Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel (August 26, 2014) || Through his far-ranging travels, Blumenthal illuminates the present by uncovering the ghosts of the past—the histories of Palestinian neighborhoods and villages now gone and forgotten; how that history has set the stage for the current crisis of Israeli
- Maxime Rodinson: Israel: A Colonial-Settler State? (June 1, 1973) || The history of Zionism is not one of struggle against the real enemies of the Jewish people, but one to despoil the Arabs of Palestine, in the same reactionary racist kind of colonialism that has been defeated in Israel’s now dead ally Apartheid South A
- Michael Lesher: Why was Palestinian suffering forgotten on Holocaust Remembrance Day? (Electronic Intifada, April 17, 2015) I cannot remain silent while Jewish elites turn the lessons of the Nazi genocide upside down — incidentally using the very methods the Nazis used to convert Germany into a killing machine.
- Michael Letwin: Labor Zionism and the Histadrut (September 1, 2011) || the Histadrut has used its image as a “progressive” institution to spearhead — and whitewash — racism, apartheid, dispossession and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians since the 1920s.
- Michael Letwin: The Jewish Labor Committee and Apartheid Israel (April 13, 2010) || The Jewish Labor Committee (JLC) presents itself as a model of progressive, socially conscious trade unionism. But as a U.S. mouthpiece for the Histadrut, this false image has been a smokescreen to disguise and promote Apartheid Israel.
- Mike Marqusee: If I Am Not For Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew (February 1, 2010) || “No one can read this book without having his or her perspective on the Middle East, religion and the left, expanded.”
- Miko Peled: Gaza reminds us of Zionism’s original sin (Electronic Intifada, Aug. 19, 2014) || Ending the insufferable, brutal and racist regime that was created by the Zionists in Palestine is the call of our time.
- Miko Peled: The General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine (June 15, 2012) || “An important book, full of hope and inspiration for a shared destiny between Palestinians and Israelis based on mutual respect and equal rights.”
- Mondoweiss || Mondoweiss is a news website devoted to covering American foreign policy in the Middle East, chiefly from a progressive Jewish perspective.
- Moshe Machover: Israelis and Palestinians Conflict and Resolution (Feb. 2012) || Not only elaborates on constructing a solid basis for a socialist alternative to Zionism but enriches the general Marxist and socialist theory on colonialism and imperialism in our era.
- Nael Bitarie: Denying our right to return is an offense against justice (Electronic Intifada, January 15, 2015) || Abbas does not represent ordinary Palestinians. For us, the right of return is a central issue. It will remain so — until this most fundamental of rights is realized.
- Nakba Museum Project of Memory and Hope || Time is running out! The 1948 survivors are now in danger of losing the chance to tell their stories, because no one has built a space for their voices to be heard. The ‪#‎Nakba‬ Museum Project aims to do precisely that- and ensure that the Palestin
- Omar Barghouti: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights (April 2011) || This considered, convincing collection contributes to the growing debate on Israel’s violations of international law and points the way forward to a united global civil society movement for freedom, justice, self-determination, and equality for all.”
- Omar Barghouti: Interview: The man behind the BDS movement (+972 Magazine, June 14, 2015) || ‪‎Israel‬’s deepest injustice, Barghouti argues, is the denial of the right of ‪return‬ to ‪Palestinian‬ ‪refugees‬. Those refugees, uprooted and dispossessed in 1948, comprise 68 percent of the Palestinian people. They, too, deserve e
- One-state: imagining a new political landscape in Israel-Palestine (Altahrir, Jan. 22, 2013) || But even if two states were tenable, the premise at work is inherently racist and exclusionary: the separation of Jews and Arabs based solely on ethnicity.
- Out of the Ballpark: Susan Abulhawa’s speech to the PennBDS conference (Mondoweiss, Feb. 15, 2012) || BDS is an opportunity for our Jewish brothers and sisters to reclaim Judaism from the grips of a racist military and apartheid political regime.
- PalestineRemembered.com || To preserve the memories and the experiences of the Palestinian people around the world, especially the 726,000 Palestinians refugees who were ethnically cleansed from their homes, farms, and businesses as a result of the 1948 war. Currently, the dispos
- Ramzy Baroud: Eight Urgent ‘Musts’ Needed for Palestinians to Defeat Apartheid (April 1, 2015) || By marginalizing the Right of Return, one diminishes the very roots of the conflict, and any serious attempt at reconciling the painful past with the equally agonizing present.
- Rania Khalek: “Liberation for all”: Why Palestine is a key issue on the streets of Ferguson (Electronic Intifada, Dec. 17, 2014) || “We suffer from the same thing and that’s colonial occupation. Colonial occupation in terms of Africa. Colonial occupation of our communities here in the United States by police and their agencies. Certainly Palestine is occupied because the Zionists
- Rania Khalek: How liberal Zionists enable Israel’s genocidal ambitions (Electronic Intifada, Aug. 20, 2014) || Zionism is a settler-colonial ideology that necessitates the ongoing removal and erasure of the non-Jewish indigenous population. There is no other way to maintain Israel’s demographically engineered Jewish majority in a land that is historically Palest
- Rania Khalek: Watch: Ferguson activists bring message of “love and struggle” to Palestine (Electronic Intifada, January 16, 2015) || The growing realization that their oppressors — the United States and Israel — are working together has ignited an outpouring of mutual solidarity between a younger generation of Black Americans and Palestinians.
- Sami Kishawion: How Israeli law turned Palestinians into ‘infiltrators’ (Sixteen Minutes to Palestine, April 2, 2015) || The year leading up to Israel’s declaration of independence and the decades following it yielded a bizarre sequence of laws and amendments that formalized, brick by brick, Israel’s commitment to racial purity and total ownership of the land. These are
- Saree Makdisi: Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (May 17, 2008) || Clear cut solid case arguing for the desirability of having a single state instead of a two state solution to resolving the long term conflict there.
- Saree Makdisi: They're Palestinians, not 'Israeli Arabs' (L.A. Times, March 27, 2015) || Just as Palestinians existed as a people before the dismemberment of their homeland, they continue to exist as a people afterward.
- Selfa, et al: The Struggle for Palestine (June 1, 2002) || Documents the efforts of Palestinians to win their freedom, and it presents a clear vision of a real solution: the creation of a secular, democratic state in all of Palestine.
- Shrinking Palestine Map Cards || “For centuries the land of Palestine was inhabited by a diverse population of Muslims, Christians, and Jews – most of them Arab. That all began to change during the first half of the 1900s when a group in Europe called Zionists began a colonial enterp
- Susan Abulhawa: The searing hypocrisy of the West (The Hindu, July 1, 2014) || This exceptionalism and supremacy of Jewish life is a fundamental underpinning of the state of Israel. It pervades their every law and protocol, and is matched only by their apparent contempt and disregard for Palestinian life.
- The Struggle: Jewish Support for the Right to Return || We Israeli Jews and Jews from Other Countries Support the Rights of Palestinian Refugees.
- Tikva Honig-Parnass: False Prophets of Peace Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine (Oct. 2011) || Through a critical analysis of the prevailing discourse of Zionist intellectuals and activists on the Jewish-democratic state, it uncovers the Zionist left’s central role in laying the foundation of the colonial settler state of Israel, in articulating
- Tikva Honig-Parnass: Reflections of A Daughter of the "'48 Generation" (Against the Current, May-June 1998) || The universal values which the Labor Zionist movement ostensibly stood for prevented me from continuing with my modest attempt at some thinking, and to argue openly and explicitly for demolishing villages, and expelling and killing Arabs.
- Tom Pessah: Why Palestinian Advocacy Groups Don’t Partner With Hillel (New Voices, July 2, 2014) || if you insist on actively denying Palestinians their basic rights, we see no need to co-produce a feel-good public event with you.
- Tony Cliff: The Jews, Israel and the Holocaust (May 1998) || It is one of the most tragic cases in history that an oppressed nation like the Jews, who suffered from the barbarity of the Nazis, have imposed oppression and barbarism on another nation – the Palestinians, a nation which was in no way involved in brin
- Two-State Apartheid v. One Democratic Palestine (June 12, 2013) || Norman Finklestein and Stephen Shalom told a Left Forum 2013 workshop that Palestinians must recognize apartheid Israel’s “right to exist.” Lamis Deek and Sherry Wolf answered that Palestinians and their allies will settle for nothing less than on
- UAW 2865 BDS Caucus Panel Discussion (Nov. 12, 2014) || AROC Executive Director Lara Kiswani, ILWU Local 10 longshore worker Clarence Thomas, and Labor for Palestine founder Michael Letwin discuss the role of organized labor in the Palestine solidarity movement.
- Understand the Israeli – Palestinian Apartheid In 11 Images || All the graphics are from the site Visualizing Palestine, a site dedicated to creating informative and impactful graphics about the occupied region. Check out many more of these images on their site
- US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation || The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation is the largest and most diverse coalition working to change U.S. policy toward Palestine/Israel to support human rights, international law, and equality.
- Video: Haidar Eid addressing Right of Return panel – Left Forum (2013) || Prof. Haidar Eid in Gaza explains why refugees’ right of return is at the heart of freedom for Palestinians
- Watch: Ferguson activists bring message of “love and struggle” to Palestine (Electronic Intifada, January 16, 2015) || The current movement for Black liberation is on the front lines of fighting against the occupation of Palestine.
- With or without new “nation-state” law, Israel is a settler-colonial apartheid state (Boycott National Committee, Dec. 10, 2014) || Israel is a criminal regime of settler colonialism and apartheid that systematically oppresses and displaces Palestinians with the aim of achieving permanent control of an exclusive “Jewish state” in most of the country, including most of the 1967 Occ
- Yousef Munayyer: There's no debate: Palestinian rights are key (Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, June 7, 2015) || From the 50+ laws that discriminate against Palestinians within Israel to the refusal to recognize refugees’ right of return, we must challenge the totality of Israel’s denial of Palestinian rights.
- Zionism and Anti-Semitism: Racist Political Twins — A J-BIG Briefing || “Zionists have often argued that only their own state can protect Jews from antisemitic attack. During the early stages of the Third Reich, moreover, the Nazis and Zionist organisations shared an outlook on Jewish separation. By attempting to separate J

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“Les Palestiniens sont un peuple étonnant, résilient. Ils n´abandonneront jamais leurs droits et la lutte pour la Libération. Les Israéliens peuvent tuer beaucoup d’entre eux, détruire leurs maisons, détruire leur vie, mais ils ne seront jamais en mesure de détruire leur espoir”

HEDY EPSTEIN (1924-2016): HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, PALESTINIAN RIGHTS CHAMPION, ANTI-ZIONIST.

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