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Human rights for all must include Palestinians. This shouldn’t be controversial, yet too often it is. Palestinians remain excluded, from basic rights, from justice, and even from having their supporters speak freely. They have faced decades of killing, displacement, and dispossession. Today, they are fighting for their very survival, not only in Gaza. A recent…

For a long time, I’ve been in no doubt that Israel’s war in Gaza constitutes a genocide, and that its new offensive in the West Bank is part of the same drive to destroy the people of Palestine – even to the point of ethnic cleansing in Gaza. As an environmentalist, I’m also devastated by…

Coming from a mixed background of being American, Israeli, Palestinian, and German, with a Jewish mother and a Muslim father, I have long understood the complexities of identity and the courage required to stand for justice. I wrote a book called The Jew Who Rowed For Palestine, where the message of standing up for what’s…

I changed my mind about Palestine because of three people. The first is an impressive rabbi who told me – as somebody who loves Israel – how horrified she was about what was happening in Israel and about the apartheid that she witnessed in the treatment of Palestinians. The second was a Palestinian professional whom…

Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza might well be the defining moral crisis of our time—a crisis that should sear the conscience of every person with a clear sense of right and wrong. Israel’s military assault has been erasing almost every trace of human life in Gaza, as we have seen with our own eyes on…

Many of us across the West have stayed silent on this issue not out of indifference, but out of fear, or out of a sense of disempowerment. But the fact is every one of us have an opportunity to bend the arc of history. Every voice raised for Palestine makes a difference. As their mission…

It’s ok to be a beginner about what’s happening to Palestinians. But it’s never too late to do the right thing. My father, Desmond Tutu, wept when he visited Palestine. He never let an opportunity to speak up for Palestine go by. What’s happening today is beyond that inhumanity that brought my father to tears.…