Nora Lester Murad

Sep 27, 2024 | rethinkingschools.org | Nora Lester Murad

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) calls itself “the leading anti-hate organization in the world.” But it is not the social justice educational partner it claims to be. The ADL is a divisive political advocacy organization.

May 2, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Ruth Kemp |Nora Lester Murad |Kelly Zhang |Hongyu Zhu

Food as a treat, food as a weapon, food that brings us together, and hunger that compounds our isolation . . . The stories collected here are united by the common theme of food or its absence.

Nov 2, 2023 | hechingerreport.org | Nora Lester Murad

In Newton, the liberal suburb of Boston where I live, parents of Palestinian, Arab and Muslim children gather weekly to discuss our concerns about how schools are responding to events in Israel/Palestine. We come together to find community and safety amid escalating hostility toward us because of a crisis we did not create and do not condone. Schools should support the well-being of all students equally.

May 4, 2023 | portside.org | Nora Lester Murad

My friend, Nurredin Amro, his extended family and their entire neighborhood are on a list: their homes in East Jerusalem are targeted for demolition by the Israeli authorities. "The demolition of Palestinian homes and lives is not a humanitarian tragedy, like an earthquake or tsunami, but a policy of apartheid in the service of ethnic cleansing. The campaign against Nurredin is part of a long-term, systematic, multipronged process of forced displacement and transfer — crimes against humanity.

Apr 28, 2023 | laprogressive.com | Nora Lester Murad

My friend, Nurredin Amro, his extended family and their entire neighborhood are on a list: their homes in East Jerusalem are targeted for demolition by the Israeli authorities. Ethnic cleansing is not just the moment of violence when a family is uprooted, or a neighborhood emptied.