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Sandy Tolan

Sandy Tolan is author of the international bestseller, The Lemon Tree, and Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land (2015, Bloomsbury), about a young man’s dream to build music schools for Palestinian children in the midst of Israel’s military occupation.  He is associate professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC.  He blogs at ramallahcafe.com and at facebook.com/sandytolanauthor. Follow him on Twitter @Sandy_Tolan.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) confers with U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) during a news conference in the Rayburn Room of the U.S. Capitol November 7, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

All hail Lord Voldemort: Republicans get their revenge for campus protests

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Yasser Arafat greets Shimon Peres in Oslo, August 24, 1998. (AP/Lise Aaserud)

From peace to armageddon: The Israel-Palestine nightmare

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John Kerry; Dwight Eisenhower (AP)

John Kerry plays Eisenhower: A farewell address dispenses hard truths, a little too late

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A Palestinian boy walks over the rubble of a house that overlooks the Israeli separation barrier, background, and was demolished by the Israeli army, in the West Bank village of Qalandia, near Ramallah, Tuesday, July 26, 2016. (AP)

Israel and Palestine won’t see a two-state solution anytime soon, even under a President Hillary Clinton

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Actress Shailene Woodley in a rally in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in their lawsuit (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Dakota pipeline protesters confront the “black snake”: “We’re living by the fire”

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(AP/Doug Mills/Carolyn Kaster/Photo montage by Salon)

We blew it after 9/11. We’re blowing it again after Paris

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(Reuters/Mohamad Torokman)

Our media’s context-free zone: “There is much more alarm when Israelis rather than Palestinians are dying”

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Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)

Divine inspiration or pure politics: What’s behind Charles Schumer’s opposition to Obama’s Iran deal

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Paul Newman in "Exodus"

America’s dangerous “Exodus” fantasy: What’s lost in the Israel-Palestine debate

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Cover detail of "Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land"

“When the occupation is over, then I’ll allow myself to dream”

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(AP/Markus Schreiber)

This is an extremist madman: The Israeli politician who calls for beheadings, and the Republicans who allow it

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(Reuters/Baz Ratner)

Israel’s self-defeating “victory”: How peace was squandered in Gaza

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President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem, March 20, 2013. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama is missing the real Israel

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Our last Thanksgiving

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Muslim demonstrators shout anti-U.S slogans during a protest against a film they consider blasphemous to Islam. (Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri)

Free speech and the “clash of civilizations”

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A Palestinian woman walks past a wall with graffiti depicting a gunman

Palestine’s losing battle for land

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Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama

The Palestine Papers: A fact-based play in one act

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An Israeli flag flutters in the wind as a naval vessel (not seen) escorts the Mavi Marmara, a Gaza-bound ship that was raided by Israeli marines, to the Ashdod port May 31, 2010. Israeli marines stormed the Turkish aid ship bound for Gaza on Monday and 10 pro-Palestinian activists were killed, triggering a profound diplomatic crisis. REUTERS/Amir Cohen (ISRAEL - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST IMAGES OF THE DAY) (Reuters)

Israel and the psychology of “never again”

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A child watches U.S. television in Bandar Abbas, Iran.

Iran: “The guest is God’s friend”

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When Barry passes Hank

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Rethinking Israel’s David-and-Goliath past

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The catastrophe that never ends

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No to Israeli unilateralism

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“The Lemon Tree”

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