Sara Ofner-Seals

To Release the Prisoner the work of Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association

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I Have Hope for This Ceasefire, But It Can’t Undo Two Years of Genocide U.S. President Donald Trump said the ceasefire deal marked “a wonderful day for everybody.” Why did it take two years to arrive?

"Israel expects us to feel grateful for obtaining our basic rights to life and liberty — as if they were favors, not ordinary human rights."

Israeli settlers burn cars, attack Palestinian farmers in West Bank; IDF fires tear gas — Haaretz Footage shows olive harvesters threatened by settlers, who damaged their equipment. On Friday, settlers wounded seven people in an attack which the town's deputy mayor called the 'most violent, extrem...

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We Need New Jewish Institutions Sustaining the struggle will require spaces for reimagining our tradition.

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“It's really quite repulsive that Palestinians have had to negotiate an end to their genocide,” says Palestinian human rights attorney Diana Buttu.

No family, no stability, no social fabric: the anguish of Gaza’s wounded orphans — Guardian US As the number of WCNSFs – wounded child no surviving family – grows, charities struggle to find adults to look after them

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On Cruelty and the need for a revival of compassion

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"Genocide Starts in the Mind" Ahmed Abu Artema on life and death in Gaza

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Two Years of Genocide Grappling with violence and resistance, despair and hope

As the October 7 anniversary approaches, a reflection on that day and it's immediate aftermath

Israel imposes permits for Palestinians to access their own West Bank villages Residents of three Palestinian communities now need Israeli-issued permits to access their own homes, fuelling fears of creeping annexation

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Recognition or Not, a Palestinian State Seems More Remote Than Ever

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Restoring Hope with Pal Humanity in North of Gaza North Gaza is facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. Families have lost everything — homes, loved ones, and access to necessities. Yet even in the face of devastation, the people of Gaza remain ...

This is two female doctors in Gaza who are getting aid to people who desperately need it. If you are looking for somewhere to donate to help, this is a good place.

A Voice Cries Out in the Wilderness meeting the great Gideon Levy

If only more journalists could be like him.

Opinion | Recognition without rescue: The world's hollow gift to Palestinians — Haaretz While the genocide in Gaza continues unabated and settlers run amok in the West Bank together with the army, the world met its minimum obligation by recognizing a state that will likely never come int...

He gets it. apple.news/AHBmSyb7XSJW...

Shame on you for being a coward.

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social VAN HOLLEN. Yes, we know who he is, and we are listening to what he is saying. He’s fighting for us and you are not.

Democrats Don’t Seem Willing to Follow Their Own Advice — The Atlantic Party leaders know they need to moderate on cultural issues to win back working-class voters—so why don’t they?

I’m so tired of the Atlantic’s bad takes. Harris did not campaign on a progressive platform. She campaigned with Dick and Liz Cheney, for goodness sake! This is centrist garbage trying to paint progressives as the problem. apple.news/AoI960ZLxRhW...

What was that about this being a defensive war?

Amplifying Palestinian Voices and a message from Rabbi Brant Rosen

Please read, please share.

I’m no longer praying for peace. I’m praying for a miracle. And I’ll work my ass off in the meantime.

@secmarcorubio.bsky.social How do you sleep at night being such a pawn for evil? Coward. You know it’s true.

How come no one is talking about how Trump just murdered 11 people??

But what if it was a boat full of migrants?

What can you do to stop the carnage in Gaza?

Call your representative in congress and urge them to sign on to the #BlockTheBombs act.

When your children and grandchildren ask what you did while your country aided and abetted a genocide, you can tell them you did this. It’s the least you can do.

The Wild Holy And why my spirituality connects me to Palestinian suffering

My activism for Palestine is far more than a political issue, it is an extension of my spirituality.
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I’ve been to Battir. This is so sad. Palestine is being colonized before our eyes and no one is stopping it. There will be nothing left but ghettos.

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The new Israeli map proposing to annex 80% of the West Bank, explained Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich released a map proposing to annex over 80% of the West Bank. He’s not far off from the rest of the Israeli political establishment — even the “pragmatic” oppo...

Israel is about to annex the West Bank. When they do, Palestinians will resist. And they will be labeled as terrorists.

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Hamas has agreed to a deal to release all the remaining hostages. Three weeks ago. Israel has ignored it and continues to bomb and starve Gaza. What the news doesn’t tell us.