Joseph Kaplan Weinger

Joseph Kaplan Weinger is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He researches the history of Israeli colonial settlement and volunteers as a protective presence activist in the occupied Palestinian territories. (September 2025)

‘A Life That Is Not a Life’

My friend Awdah Hathaleen devoted himself to ending Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. His killing demonstrates just how little distance remains between settlers and the state.

September 5, 2025

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