Donna Nevel

New York City mayoral candidate, Democratic Zohran Mamdani, speaks during a mayoral debate with Independent and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa in New York on October 16, 2025. (Photo by ANGELINA KATSANIS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Rooting out Islamophobia must be a priority | Commentary

November 3, 2025 at 10:03 a.m.

Jewish social justice educator, Donna Nevel, discusses the normalization of Islamophobia within our society.

A view of security at Alligator Alcatraz from the airplane runway in Ochopee, Florida on Friday, July 25, 2025. (Al Diaz/Miami Herald)

We deserve a South Florida that enacts care, not harm | Opinion

July 30, 2025 at 1:08 p.m.

As a Jewish person who grew up in Miami Beach, activist and organizer Donna Nevel heard the Holocaust stories of older Jews. It's those stories, she writes, that have encouraged...

Members of the Jewish Voice for Peace and the IfNotNow movement during a rally calling for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, in Washington on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. (Al Drago/The New York Times)

Violence will beget violence until Palestinians have freedom and self-determination | Opinion

November 5, 2023 at 8:04 a.m.

Two members of South Florida's Jewish community call on Israel to stop its assault on Gaza and on the U.S. to stop arming Israel.

A Palestinian flag is removed from a building by Israeli authorities after being put up by an advocacy group that promotes coexistence between Palestinians and Israelis, in Ramat Gan, Israel, Wednesday, June 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

What antisemitism is, what it is not, and why it matters | Opinion

September 26, 2022 at 11:34 a.m.

As we enter the Jewish New Year, many Jews are beginning to reflect upon our past year and consider how we — individually and collectively — can participate in creating...

Palestinian laborers some wearing protective face masks amid concerns over the country's coronavirus outbreak, cross illegally into Israel from the West Bank through an opening in a fence, south of the West Bank town of Hebron on Sept. 6, 2020. One of the world's best-known human rights groups says Israel is guilty of the international crimes of apartheid and persecution. Human Rights Watch cites discriminatory policies toward Palestinians within Israel's own borders and in the occupied territories. In so doing, the New York-based group joins a growing number of commentators and rights groups that consider Israel and the territories as a single entity in which Palestinians are denied basic rights that are granted to Jews.

Israel and apartheid | Opinion

May 4, 2021 at 3:03 p.m.

Gov. DeSantis has long championed the state of Israel and has called himself Israel's greatest friend. In fact, while campaigning for governor, DeSantis proclaimed, "As soon as I take the...

Florida’s Jews, Trump and DeSantis | Opinion

November 16, 2020 at 9:12 p.m.

The majority of Florida's Jews, like Jews nationwide, voted for Joe Biden for President. Jews across the U.S. largely made it clear that they did not support President Trump's policies...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Dec. 11 to combat anti-Semitism at the White House. Trump and his administration purport to be concerned about anti-Semitism. But their real agenda is to silence dissent on Israel, writes op-ed authors Alan Levine and Donna Nevel. Both Jewish social justice activists in South Florida.

Florida’s and Trump’s fight against anti-Semitism reek of hypocrisy | Opinion

December 22, 2019 at 7:39 p.m.

President Trump continues to make clear that his opposition to anti-Semitism has more to do with curtailing criticism of Israel than with actual anti-Semitism. For example, just recently, at the...

A supporter wears a T-shirt reading 'Boycott Israel' at the Palestinian embassy in Kuala Lumpur. The U.S. Senate passed a controversial measure in February, designed to shield Israel from boycotts,

Florida legislators: Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic

March 8, 2019 at 9:19 p.m.

Around the country, legislators have sought to curry the support of pro-Israel voters by silencing and intimidating those who advocate on behalf of Palestinian rights. Numerous laws that have been...

Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration is moving to sanction Airbnb over the home-sharing platform's decision not to list properties in the West Bank, arguing that the policy violates a state law that prohibits Florida from doing business with companies that boycott Israel.

DeSantis wrong on punishing Airbnb over Israeli decision | Opinion

February 18, 2019 at 12:00 p.m.

Last November, Airbnb announced that it would no longer carry listings for properties in illegal Israeli settlements built on occupied Palestinian land in the West Bank. The decision, Airbnb said,...

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