Sandy Tolan

Sandy Tolan is author of the international bestseller, The Lemon Tree, and Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land (2015, Bloomsbury), about a young man’s dream to build music schools for Palestinian children in the midst of Israel’s military occupation. He is associate professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC. He blogs at ramallahcafe.com and at facebook.com/sandytolanauthor. Follow him on Twitter @Sandy_Tolan.

Mike Johnson; Elise Stefanik

All hail Lord Voldemort: Republicans get their revenge for campus protests Sandy Tolan

Arafat; Peres

From peace to armageddon: The Israel-Palestine nightmare Sandy Tolan

John Kerry plays Eisenhower: A farewell address dispenses hard truths, a little too late Sandy Tolan

Mideast Israel Palestinians

Israel and Palestine won't see a two-state solution anytime soon, even under a President Hillary Clinton Sandy Tolan

Shailene Woodley

Dakota pipeline protesters confront the "black snake": "We're living by the fire" Sandy Tolan

George W. Bush, Donald Trump

We blew it after 9/11. We're blowing it again after Paris Sandy Tolan

Israeli Police

Our media's context-free zone: "There is much more alarm when Israelis rather than Palestinians are dying" Sandy Tolan

Divine inspiration or pure politics: What's behind Charles Schumer's opposition to Obama's Iran deal Sandy Tolan

America's dangerous "Exodus" fantasy: What's lost in the Israel-Palestine debate Sandy Tolan

Children of the Stone

"When the occupation is over, then I’ll allow myself to dream" Sandy Tolan

Avigdor Lieberman

This is an extremist madman: The Israeli politician who calls for beheadings, and the Republicans who allow it Sandy Tolan

Israel's self-defeating "victory": How peace was squandered in Gaza Sandy Tolan

Obama is missing the real Israel Sandy Tolan

Our last Thanksgiving Sandy Tolan

Free speech and the "clash of civilizations" Sandy Tolan

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