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Elijah Kahlenberg

May 24, 2024, 1:08 PM

A Jewish Peace Activist’s Call to Reform America’s Armament Agreements

The summer of 2022 started as the summer of peace. I devoted my entire summer to working for Roots, the only group in the West Bank dedicated to bringing together Jews and Palestinians in a joint and civil space...

Apr 27, 2023, 7:09 AM

Reuniting Family: Overcoming Mono-Ethnic Territorial Exclusion

“Why should I care about Palestinians? This is Judea, which is for the Jews, Arabs should return to Arabia.” After leaving Gush Etzion’s junction one day in late July, I came upon over 100 Nachala settlers confronting IDF soldiers....

Feb 9, 2023, 9:28 AM

Christian Zionists and Black Hebrew Israelites: Untold shared roots

As a Jew raised in Texas, seeing videos of Black Hebrew Israelites praising Hitler and condemning contemporary Jews as ‘fakes’ does not reflect my experiences with African American communities. While one cannot ignore such radical sects of the Black...

About Me

Elijah Demetrios Kahlenberg is a student/researcher at the University of Texas at Austin and the founder and president of Atidna International, a joint Arab/Palestinian and Jewish/Israeli campus-based peace initiative. Elijah analyzes historical issues pertinent to Arab/Palestinian-Jewish/Israeli peace/reconciliation, the Israeli settler movement, Palestinian history, Jewish interfaith relations, and Jewish history in the Eastern Mediterranean.