Understanding Jewish and Palestinian Equality in Israel explores how questions of law, belonging, justice, and identity shape everyday life between the river and the sea. Written from my perspective as an African-American Christian who also practices Judaism, the series seeks understanding rather than ideology—beginning with equality in law (Part I), comparing civilian and military rule (Part II), examining how security structures shape discrimination (Part III), exploring how bias reinforces inequality (Part IV), and reflecting on the moral lessons of segregation and liberation (Part V). Later essays trace how prolonged control fuels extremism (Part VI), highlight grassroots hope (Part VII), and conclude with a theology of repair (Part VIII).

Together these essays ask a central question: What becomes of equality when fear, control, and identity shape the limits of law?

This essay argues that decades of military rule, settlement expansion, political........

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