by Matthew Friedman | Feb 18, 2024 | Commentary, Gaza Journal
I was interviewed for my hometown newspaper, the Montreal Gazette, about being both Jewish and pro-Palestinian. It is an honor to be included with these other shvesterkind from my hometown. I don’t know them all yet, but I will. I hope that they will accept my...
by Matthew Friedman | Jan 21, 2024 | Commentary, Gaza Journal
“Because actually the world is not made up of ‘nations’ and fatherlands that want only to preserve their cultural distinctions, and only if it means not sacrificing a single human life. Fatherlands and nations want much more, or much less: They have vested interests...
by Matthew Friedman | Dec 24, 2023 | Commentary, Gaza Journal
I have been posting in social media about the War on Gaza, and collecting these posts in weekly installments in The Typescript for more than two months. It began as an act of witness and resistance. The Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer wrote in Rethinking the...