NORA LESTER MURAD is an anti-Zionist Jew from the United States. Her books, Rest in My Shade (2018) and I Found Myself in Palestine (2020), were published by Interlink and her children’s novel is forthcoming in 2022. Nora teaches international humanitarian studies at Fordham University, drawing on the 13 years she has worked as an aid accountability activist in Palestine. Nora organizes with Defund Newton Police and cares deeply about racism, debt, displacement, climate and other urgent threats to humanity and nature. She is the loving mother of three brilliant Palestinian-American daughters and lives with her husband on Pawtucket and Massachusett land.