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Israeli police arrests a Palestinian protester at a demonstration for the release of hunger striker Mohammad Allan, outside of Barzilai hospital in Ashkelon, Israel. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Want to combat Israeli authoritarianism? Listen to Palestinians

Jewish and international observers are constantly having to catch up to what Palestinians have always known about Israel. This needs to change. In his 1963 book The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin wrote a profound personal letter to his young nephew (also named James), in which he poignantly described the dehumanizing world that Black people…

By Amjad Iraqi August 16, 2018

White supremacists seen during the Unite the Right rally, Charlottesville, Virginia, August 12, 2017. (Rodney Dunning/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Challenging racial supremacy — from Charlottesville to Tel Aviv

As long as our recognition of racial supremacy begins and ends with enraged men beating up people of color, leftists, and anyone else they see as a target, we will never approach the reckoning needed to effect meaningful change — neither in Charlottesville nor in Tel Aviv. CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA — Three years ago, on a broiling…

By Natasha Roth-Rowland October 9, 2017