Israel and Palestine

The line between Zionist and non-Zionist or anti-Zionist is thinner than you might expect, as is the boundary between people willing and unwilling to say that Israel is an apartheid state.

The film is about the tension between the Israel of the past and the Israel of the present.

What is the dream that will enable us to co-create a reality where my dream is not somebody else’s nightmare?

Much of the rhetoric on the subject is evidence-free, reflecting the hopes, fears or political preferences of the speaker.

Why can’t religious leaders and institutions say, with clarity, that the grotesque violence against a trapped civilian population in Gaza is indefensible and wrong?

The Jewish community’s often uncomplex reactions to critiques of Israel have now been weaponized by the right to attack free speech and democracy in the United States.

Today, Israel is more a source of division in the Jewish world than it is a source of unity.

The definition of antisemitism should work to keep Jews safe as Jews in school, while not curtailing free speech or the cultural and religious safety of others, including Muslims and Palestinians.

We cannot afford to dismiss thoughts that are not 100% in lockstep with our own as irrelevant, heretical or even criminal.

Where there is struggle, there is hope.