Roi Ben-Yehuda

Roi Ben-Yehuda is an Israeli writer based in the US. He is a regular contributor to Haaretz and France 24. His work has also been featured in publications such as The Turkish Daily News, Al-Jazeera, Middle East Times, Middle-East Online, Publico, The Metropolitan, Common Ground, Jewcy, Jbooks, Tikkun, Zeek, Voices-Unabridged, AllVoices, PresentTense, and The Epoch Times. His articles have been translated into multiple languages including: French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, and Indonesian. The Muslim writer Irshad Manji has called Roi “a rising journalist and public thinker” and has profiled him in May of 2008 as an “agent of moral courage”. Roi holds degrees from New School University and the Jewish Theological Seminary. He is currently a doctoral student at the Institute of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University.

 

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Why Isn’t There a Palestinian Gandhi? Ask the Israeli Protester the IDF Just Shot

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Dear Israel: In Mid-Life, You Can Let Go Of Your Anger

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Israel’s State-Sanctioned Persecution Of Messianic Jews Must End

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Solving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Through Song

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Of Golda and Dildos: Thoughts on Israel’s First Sex Festival

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Join the Israeli Army or Lose the Right to Vote

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Bush in Israel: The End of an Affair?

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