Seth Anziska's "Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo" is a deeply insightful and profoundly disturbing book that traces the tortuous path of Middle East peacemaking during the past four decades.

In recent weeks, the Trump administration has taken a series of drastic punitive actions against the Palestinian people.

During this past week in Washington, the political ideals to which we aspire ran head-first into the reality of the people we have become.

First, President Donald Trump’s administration "took Jerusalem off the table".

Thirty years ago, I mounted the podium of the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, Georgia to open the first ever political party debate on Palestinian rights.

This past week, The New York Times ran an article, "Israeli Airport Detention of Prominent US Jew Prompts Uproar", focusing on the airport harassment received by Peter Beinart, a prominent liberal writer and TV commentator.

Fifty years ago, when I was getting started in national politics, Ibrahim Abu Lughod, a friend and mentor, offered words of wisdom I never forgot.

Forty years ago this month, I left a tenured teaching position and moved to Washington, DC to run the Palestine Human Rights Campaign (PHRC). It was not easy doing Palestine work back then and Washington was an especially inhospitable city in which to pursue my new vocation.

Fifteen years ago, we were still in the early stages of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, "the war that would change everything".