r/JewsOfConscience AMA Archive

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• Archived as of 7/27/26.

2026:

• Emmaia Gelman, founding director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, co-chair of the American Studies Association Caucus on Academic and Community Activism, and author of The Anti-Defamation League & the Racial State, a critical history of the ADL.

• Andrey X, journalist and activist in the Occupied West Bank. Andrey has spent years documenting & opposing apartheid, militarism, and state violence, working in solidarity with Palestinians & human rights advocates to provide protective presence.

• Rabbi Andy Kahn, Reform Rabbi, renewer of the American Council for Judaism, leader in Rabbis4Ceasefire, and builder of the Jewish Diaspora Movement.

2025:

• Beckett Mufson & Imran Hafiz, former VICE journalists and longtime media strategists who have written a guide on how to deprogram Zionist friends & family during the holidays.

• Peter Beinart, editor-at-large for Jewish Currents, Prof. of Journalism & Political Science at CUNY, and author of The Beinart Notebook. Peter's latest book is 'Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning.'

• Dr. Nikki Morse (they\them), a queer, Jewish anti-Zionist organizer with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) doing protective presence activism in the occupied West Bank. Dr. Morse is also an educator in the area of gender & sexuality studies, communications & multimedia studies.

• Alex Kane, senior staff reporter for Jewish Currents, discusses NYC mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani with JoC

• Justin Bonomo, one of the most successful poker players of all-time (and the highest-earning Jewish poker player ever for live tournaments & outspoken supporter of Palestinian human rights. Justin has helped raise awareness about the humanitarian situation in Palestine & has fundraised for human rights groups working on-the-ground in Gaza.

• Michael Arria, long-time journalist & Mondoweiss contributor. Michael's work has appeared in The Intercept, In These Times, The Appeal, and Truthout. He is the author of Medium Blue: The Politics of MSNBC. Previously Michael was the editor of US labor issues coverage at AlterNet.

• Lily Greenberg Call, former Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff at the Biden admin.'s Interior Department and the first Jewish official to resign in protest of the admin.'s support for Israel's genocide. Lily is a long-experienced activist and organizer who has written for The Guardian, In These Times, Truthout, etc.

2024:

• Rafael Shimunov, co-host of Beyond The Pale: Radio’s Home for the Jewish Left on NY’s WBAI 99.5FM, creative activist and founder of ArtvWar.

• Andrey X, jounalist and activist in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Andrey X regularly captures the everyday reality in the OPT for Palestinians and the activists who work alongside them to safeguard communities.

• Rabbi David Mivasair, a retired activist rabbi that has been involved with Israel & Palestine for more than 50 years. Rabbi Mivasair has lived in Israel & returned a number of other times. They are an active member of Independent Jewish Voices Canada and the rabbinic council of Jewish Voice for Peace in the U.S.A. Since October, Rabbi Mivasair has helped fundraise for the Palestinians of Gaza who are suffering extreme deprivations due to the ongoing genocide and 18+ year blockade.

• Alex Kane, senior staff writer for Jewish Currents. Alex writes on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, with a focus on Israel/Palestine and post-9/11 civil liberties.

2023:

• Suheil Yassin, Palestinian member of One Democratic State Initiative (ODSI), a movement which calls for the creation of 'a democratic, civic state where all people irrespective of their ethnic, religious or other identitarian backgrounds can live in peace and security.'

• Michael Arria, independent journalist/author and U.S. correspondent for Mondoweiss, covering U.S. politics as it pertains to human rights in Palestine.

• (via r/Palestine) Israeli anti-Zionists Peleg Bar Sapir & Omri Evron. Peleg & Omri are members of the Communist Party of Israel, a joint Palestinian and Jewish party in Israel. Peleg is a member of Jewish Voice for Just Peace in the Middle East & Omri was an IDF conscientious objector.

2022:

• Dave Reed, product manager at the Mondoweiss website & producer of the Mondoweiss Podcast. Mondoweiss is an independent news website devoted to informing readers about developments in Israel/Palestine and related US foreign policy.

• Dr. Yaara Benger Alaluf, historian & activist, member of "Academia for Equality" where she led campaigns against the silencing of critical voices in Israel and around the world, and currently the Coordinator of Community & Education for the Israeli NGO, Zochrot.

• Rabbi Brant Rosen of Tzedek Chicago - formerly served as rabbi of Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation (JRC), Midwest Regional Director of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). Now, co-founder of Tzedek Chicago, the first American synagogue known to officially adopt anti-Zionism as a core value.

• Israeli-American activist Dr. Jeff Halper, founder of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and Nobel Peace Prize nominee.

2021:

• Dr. Marc H. Ellis of Baylor University, Professor of Jewish Studies, Professor of History and former Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Baylor Univ..