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Noam Shuster-Eliassi. (Noam Shuster-Eliassi)

PODCAST: The Jewish comedian calling out apartheid in Arabic

From Tel Aviv to East Jerusalem and New York, Noam Shuster-Eliassi is using comedy to deliver home truths about injustice in Israel-Palestine.

By Natasha Roth-Rowland February 25, 2022

Noam Shuster upon her release from the Dan Hotel in Jerusalem, where she was quarantined with other recovering COVID-19 patients, April 20, 2020. (Courtesy of Noam Shuster)

Welcome to the Hotel Coronavirus

I hoped to use this shared quarantine experience in Jerusalem to come up with new material for my comedy routine. What happened instead was not at all what I expected.

By Noam Shuster April 21, 2020

Tens of thousands of people at a demonstration calling to replace Netanyahu as Israel’s prime minister, Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, March 7, 2015. (Photo by Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

The Israeli Left must show up to protest 50 years of occupation

After 50 years of a racist military regime, it’s time for the Israeli Left to go out and protest en masse — and, in the face of such an urgent task, to overlook our differences. Things can sometimes be very simple. Read, for example, the following invitation to the anti-occupation protest taking place in Tel…

By Haggai Matar May 26, 2017

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The Statue of Liberty. (Noconatom/CC BY-SA 4.0)

Between hope and despair: A Palestinian woman’s journey to Trumpland

A month after Trump’s election I found myself traveling across the United States. Along the way I met with a 103-year-old Jewish journalist, who reminded me that despite the good will of American Jewry, we live in two separate worlds. I spent 10 intense days between airports, malls, presentations, and meetings — switching between Hebrew,…

By Samah Salaime December 8, 2016

Fire fighters try to extinguish a wildfire at the entrance to Nataf, outside Jerusalem, November 25, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

No fires or inciting politicians can destroy our shared society

The wildfire that struck Neve Shalom-Wahat al-Salam left our Jewish-Arab village more resilient than ever before. We invite Israel’s politicians to learn from us on how to heal our society’s wounds. Our country has been up in flames this past week. Hundreds of fires have broken out in various areas resulting in tens of thousands of people…

By Samah Salaime November 26, 2016