Families Gather in Durham to Fly Kites and Call for Ceasefire in Gaza
“My family is in Gaza,” 9-year-old Maria, a native Palestinian, told the crowd. “I am worried all the time.”
Google Workers in Durham Join Protest Against Contract With Israeli Government
The tech company has a $1.2 billion cloud computing contract to provide the Israeli government and military with surveillance resources and other services.
Op-Ed: We Must Stand in Solidarity With Our Jewish Neighbors to Fight Rising Anti-Semitism
The Jewish concept of tikkun olam, or repairing the world, offers a model for how we can work toward true equity for all peoples.
Letter: Many Jews in the Triangle Are Hurting This Week, Too
Conversations in the Triangle will not determine the future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but the type of conversations we have about it will impact the future of our local interfaith community.
Letter: UNC Is Complicit in the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians. We Need to Divest from Israel Now.
It is more urgent than ever that students, graduate student workers, faculty, and staff examine the institution in which we are all working and contributing.
Letters: “Wake Up and Smell the Bullsh**!”
And other things our readers told us this week
Trump, Who Said Neo-Nazis Are “Very Fine People,” Has a New Talking Point: “Democrats Hate Jewish People”
2020 is already exhausting.
More Palestine Coverage
Drawing Accusations of Anti-Semitism, Durham City Council Passes Statement on Police Exchanges
A debate that divided Durham’s Jewish community and prompted accusations of anti-Semitism culminated Monday night with the City Council’s approval of a statement opposing international military-style police training programs. The unanimous vote came after two hours of tense public comment. At one point Mayor Steve Schewel condemned remarks by one speaker who said Jews had…
Foxtrot Asks What Happens to a Society When It Considers Itself to Be Under Siege for Generations
FOXTROT Opening Friday, April 20 Samuel Maoz’s gorgeous and tragic Foxtrot poses the question, what happens to a society when it considers itself to be under siege for generations? The film introduces us to Michael (Lior Ashkenazi) and Dafna (Sarah Adler), an affluent Israeli couple who have just been informed by the military that their…
Responding to Activists, the Durham City Council Rejects Police Exchanges With Israel
This post is excerpted from the INDY’s morning newsletter, Primer. To read this morning’s edition in full, click here. To get all the day’s local and national headlines and insights delivered straight to your inbox, sign up here. In February, the INDY reported that Durham activists were pushing the city council to pass a resolution…
Durham Activists Want the City to Become the First in the U.S. to Condemn Exchanges Between Local Cops and Israeli Security Forces
Since 9/11, high-ranking American police officers from all over the country have been sent to Israel for counterterrorism training, a practice critics find problematic due to Israeli security forces’ record of human rights abuses. Demilitarize! From Durham2Palestine—a coalition of local activist groups—wants the city council to pass a resolution condemning these exchanges and provide assurances…
Bills in North Carolina, Congress Target Companies That Boycott Israel
North Carolina senators Richard Burr and Thom Tillis have cosponsored a bill that could impose stiff criminal and civil penalties for engaging in a boycott of Israel or its occupied territories. A similar—albeit less draconian—state bill, passed in the General Assembly in June, currently sits on Governor Cooper’s desk. These bills target the Boycott, Divestment,…
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