Dana Mills

Dana Mills is a writer, activist, dancer, and the +972/ Local Call resource development manager. She is the author of Dance and Politics: Moving beyond Boundaries (2016), Rosa Luxemburg (2020), and Dance and Activism (2021). Her fourth book, a collection of essays about and against war, is forthcoming in 2024 with Five Leaves Press.

Recent Articles
Rally in solidarity with Jenin's Freedom Theatre in New York, January 15, 2024. (Ken Schles)
Art world takes the stage to defend a Palestinian theater
After an unprecedented response to Israel’s latest raid on Jenin's Freedom Theatre, there will be no going back to show business as usual.
By Dana Mills February 15, 2024
A Hanukkah menorah is seen in a window, with a Nazi flag hanging from a building across the road, Kiel, Germany, 1931. (Courtesy)
This Hanukkah especially, take inspiration from my family’s act of defiance
As some Israeli soldiers light Hanukkah candles on the ruins of Palestinian homes in Gaza, we must look to the rich Jewish tradition of opposing tyranny.
By Dana Mills December 8, 2023
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson at the Prime Minister's House in Jerusalem on September 30, 2016. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)
The Labour Party lost, but a new left is emerging in the UK
The grassroots movement supporting Corbyn's party in last week's election, which includes progressive Jews, didn't get the full attention it deserves.
By Dana Mills December 17, 2019
Most Read
  1. ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
  2. Six months after October 7, a lament for the paths not chosen
  3. ‘The soldiers opened the way for the settlers’: Pogroms surge across West Bank
  4. The unexceptional violence of Israel’s ‘Haredi battalion’
  5. ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza
  1. ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
  2. Six months after October 7, a lament for the paths not chosen
  3. ‘The soldiers opened the way for the settlers’: Pogroms surge across West Bank
  4. ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza
  5. The unexceptional violence of Israel’s ‘Haredi battalion’
  1. ‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
  2. ‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza
  3. Even without a UN veto, Gaza remains hostage to American power
  4. Why do Israelis feel so threatened by a ceasefire?
  5. The spiraling absurdity of Germany's pro-Israel fanaticism