Suad Amiry
Author, architect, and architectural conservator
I feel that our conflict with the Israelis can be reduced to one word: land. I cannot trust an Israeli who is always trying to confiscate my piece of land.
Nothing can change the reality that my father’s house is in Jaffa. If Israelis want peace, they must apologize for what they [...]
Haviva Ner-David
Rabbi and activist for equal religious rights for women
When my kids are fighting, I sometimes get impatient and exclaim, “Why can’t you just get along?” In the same way, I feel the Arabs and Jews to be siblings, and I am like a mother figure looking on and saying, “This is ridiculous. Everyone take a [...]
Ester Golan
Sociologist and Holocaust educator
What was your childhood like in Nazi Germany?
My mother was a Zionist since the Balfour Declaration. So, I grew up in the belief that the ancient dream would be fulfilled one day and we would come to Palestine. I was ten years old when Hitler came. In Catholic school, the teacher came in and said: “You are Jewish? Get up and sit at the back.” From that day on nobody talked to me any more. Nobody played with me any more. [...]
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