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Amnesty International Reveals its Malice to Israel is Cloaked in Ignorance

Last week, I attended an event at the Women’s National Democratic Club (no formal relationship with the Democratic Party) in Washington, D.C. for an event on Palestinian rights with executive director of Amnesty International USA, Paul O’Brien. The event was advertised as an opportunity for one of the world’s most recognized human rights organizations to present …

Progressive Environmental Activism Shouldn’t Stop At The Mason-Dixon Line

As a native Louisianan living in Los Angeles, I often ask fellow progressives about their impressions of the South. The responses range, but almost always include a reference to the region’s overwhelmingly conservative states and counties, as well as its regrettable past defined by Jim Crow and segregation. This is all true, of course, but …

The politically lonely progressive Zionists

“It’s become a very common experience for rabbis, and Jews of really any kind who lean to the left progressively, to find, at the very least, difficulties in progressive circles with the love for Israel,” said Rabbi Menachem Creditor, the Pearl and Ira Meyer Scholar-in-Residence at UJA-Federation of New York. Among people like him — …