It would be a big mistake to equate the Russian people with the Russian state—this is a key point in Alexei Navalny’s memoir-cum-political statement, Patriot, published
Gaza is a fulcrum on which two approaches to world affairs are competing. On one side are the nations who believe that peace will be attained by making Palestine a
The images from Gaza are unbearable. A good part of my life has been devoted to working for peace and justice, including with people from the Middle East, also in
Those who live with the memory of violence in their bones run the risk of letting that memory define everything. We see that danger reflected today in Israeli policy toward
The acquittal by the Bombay High Court of 12 men accused of being responsible for the 2006 serial bomb blasts on Mumbai’s suburban trains has triggered a much-needed
I concluded my previous column with this quote from the philosopher, J. Krishnamurti: “Love is not thought, love is not remembrance… we (must) negate everything that is not love, jealousy,
What would have Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi done at this moment? Like he did in Calcutta, Noakhali and Bihar, Gandhi would have definitely gone to Pahalgam, embraced every family member of
In February 1939, Jewish philosopher Martin Buber wrote a long and remarkably respectful letter to Gandhi disagreeing with the following assertions the latter had made in his paper Harijan in
Gandhi’s views about the Jews and Palestine were as clear and emphatic as they were prophetic.
When the Jews were being brutally oppressed by Hitler, he wrote in his
“We are one humanity!” This bold declaration begs for a thorough interrogation.
Are we born one in humanity or do we need to deliberately forge oneness in humanity? Can the
A great, and complicated, man died in August. For decades, Rabbi Michael Lerner was the leading Jewish American voice calling for Israel to understand what it had done to the
I was sprawled face down on the snowbound sidewalk in downtown Detroit, nursing my bruised elbow. I had just been ejected from a building where I had gone apartment hunting.
