Einat Wilf is a former Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party and Independence, from 2010-2013. She is the author of the 2020 book, The War of Return, with co-author Adi Schwartz and founder of the Oz Party.
Yardena Schwartz is an award-winning journalist, Emmy-nominated producer, and author of Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine that Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Her reporting from four continents has appeared in dozens of publications, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Review of Books, The Economist, TIME, National Geographic, and Foreign Policy. She was based in Israel from 2013-2023. Yardena previously worked at NBC News and MSNBC. She graduated with honors from Columbia Journalism School in 2011, received an Emmy nomination for her work at MSNBC in 2013, and the Religion News Association award for excellence in magazine reporting in 2016.
Mo Husseini is a Palestinian American writer, filmmaker, and strategic advisor from a Jerusalem family. A former commercial film director, his viral essay “50 Completely True Things” reached over 500,000 readers and established him as a distinctive Palestinian American voice. He serves on the National Steering Committee for Friends of Standing Together USA, the Palestinian-Jewish grassroots movement, and co-directed the documentary The Path Forward with Emmy-winning filmmaker Julie Cohen. He is currently co-authoring The Moral Floor with Daniel Sokatch, CEO of the New Israel Fund, a framework for honest engagement across the deepest divides. His work is rooted in a simple conviction: that none of us has access to the big-T Truth, and the only way we get closer is by genuinely contending with perspectives that make us uncomfortable.
An honest examination of how Israeli and Palestinian national narratives developed, how historical turning points shaped lived realities on both sides, how language and media framing distort public understanding, and how misinformation fuels insecurity—for Jews and for Palestinians alike.
