Joel Braunold is in the process of naturalization and works in international conflict resolution.
Joel Braunold
By Joel Braunold
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Opinion Jared Kushner’s Economic ‘Peace’ Plan Is An Embarrassment
In the fall of 2014, I sat around a table in the State Department with forty representatives of Israeli and Palestinian civil society and the peace team of then Secretary John Kerry. After failing to get his framework agreement released as the proximity talks between the parties had broken down, we were there to ask…
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Community Birthright’s Move To Exclude Arab-Israelis From Its Narrative Is A Crisis — And Here’s How We Fix It.
Birthright Israel’s education department recently announced that all providers of its signature 10-day trip to Israel for young Jews must stop including meetings with Israeli Arabs in their programming. The move has hit a nerve. It has brought out the raw feelings surrounding the funders of the program, those who safeguard the educational content and…
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Community Can’t Understand the Fuss Over Trump’s Ban? Read My Immigration Story.
A version of this piece originally appeared in Haaretz. My grandfather Joe was 14 when he left Fulda and my grandmother Ruth was 11 when she left Leipzig as part of the 10,000 members of the Kindertransport that left Germany for the U.K. They arrived with nothing. I was thinking of them this week in…
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Community Take It From A Brit: American Liberals Need A New Plan
As the endless autopsies of the 2016 election continue to pour in, what is clear is that the left needs a new organizing message. Luigi Zingales warns us against attacking Trump in order to focus on his policies, and Mark Lilla decries the end of identity politics for the progressive movement, but what is the…
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