Israel Palestine

The tear that exposes Israel’s democratic crisis - opinion

Israeli man arrested and kippah torn by the police, illustrates the colonization of minds and reflects the decline of the idea of coexistence in Israel-Palestine.

DR. ALEX Sinclair's kippah, after police cut off the Palestinian flag.
Workers and volunteers on an archaeological dig sift through dirt at Alexandrion/Sartaba in the Jordan Valley.

Israel digs up the West Bank – and reignites a battle over history

 Grade 12 Arabic textbook teaching a poem praising children in Gaza for fighting and dying as martyrs to liberate Palestine.

Tunisia’s schoolbooks celebrate Hitler, omit Holocaust, research finds - IMPACT-se

View of an illustration depicting captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in downtown Caracas.

How media decides which deaths count and which events matter - analysis


UN vote imperfect map of Israel's friends - analysis

There were many countries that voted against Israel that Israel would consider "friends," yet many ask, "what determines whether a country is a 'friend'?"

 PRIME MINISTER Yair Lapid addresses the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, last week.

Why doesn't anyone want to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? - opinion

Why haven’t the two sides resolved the conflict? With people dying on both sides, you’d think there’d be an impetus to find a resolution as soon as possible.

 THEN PRESIDENT Barack Obama, then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and PA head Mahmoud Abbas arrive to make a statement at the White House on peace talks, in 2010. When mediators consistently encourage compromise to people unwilling to do so, they’re setting themselves up to fail, says the writer

At TEDx in Ramallah, Palestinian storytellers share personal experiences to inspire others

A teenager, a journalist, a mother of a child with cancer and a businessman were among the speakers on the theme “We Deserve”.

TEDx in Israel

This is the call for a liberal religious rebellion - opinion

Israelis of the Left and Center will leave, quietly but steadily and Israel as we know it will collapse, the author writes.

 KIPPOT ARE on display at the Mahaneh Yehuda market in Jerusalem. ‘I and many others like me no longer feel comfortable wearing the knitted kippah, long the emblem of modern Orthodox Zionism, in public,’ says the writer.

Druze warn they will enter Jenin if kidnapped teen not returned

Uncle of the Israeli Druze teenager claims that Palestinian terrorists disconnected his nephew from life support while he was still alive.

 Palestinian gunmen and mourners attend the funeral of Palestinian Islamic Jihad activist Matin dabaya, who was killed during clashes with Israeli forces, during his funeral in Jenin, in the West Bank, October 14, 2022.

Political battle: Is Israel more Jewish or Israeli? - opinion

Discrimination against 21% of the citizens of Israel is not only legitimate by the majority of Israelis, but will also be part of the new government's policies.

 BENJAMIN NETANYAHU and Arye Deri – expected to soon become coalition partners – shake hands in the Knesset on Tuesday as current cabinet ministers Benny Gantz, Avigdor Liberman and Merav Michaeli look on. The new government will confiscate more Palestinian land, says the writer

Gantz: DOJ decision to investigate Abu Akleh's death 'big mistake'

“The decision taken by the US Justice Department to conduct an investigation into the tragic passing of Shireen Abu Akleh, is a mistake," Gantz said.

A Palestinian walks in front of a mural depicting the slain Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh ahead of the visit of US President Joe Biden at Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, July 13, 2022.

Israeli, Palestinian NGOs lead grassroots campaign to improve conditions

15 leading Israeli and Palestinian NGOs will utilize new US funding for peacebuilding efforts to change the reality on the ground – from the ground up.

Thousands of Jews and Arabs march in Tel Aviv for peace and coexistence, Saturday, May 22, 2021.

Israelis prefer practicality in promoting peace with Palestinians - opinion

The Mitvim Institute's 2022 Foreign Policy Index published that Israelis have reservations about comprehensive solutions to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict.

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Palestinian rejectionism, glorification of terrorism is stopping peace - opinion

Such actions prove that the core issue isn’t occupation, but Palestinian rejectionism and terrorism against the indigenous people of the land – the Jews

 YANKELE HILLEL, a survivor of the 1929 Hebron massacre, places a stone on a grave amid a long row of small headstones for the victims, at a cemetery in the city, August 2009, marking 80 years since the massacre.