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


Why Scotland’s fiercest soccer rivalry features Israeli vs. Palestinian flags

When Celtic fans began adopting Palestinian flags as a symbol of Irish independence in the late 2000s, Rangers fans began hoisting Israeli flags in response.

 A Palestinian flag seen among Irish flags at a match against Rangers in Glasgow in 2018.

Palestinian President Abbas' holocaust comment is not new - analysis

The New York Times and Fox News may forget his comments soon, but Israelis will remember it, maybe not the exact words, but the overriding sentiment. 

 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends a news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, in Berlin, Germany, August 16, 2022.

Israel, PA partner to transport water to Palestinian farmers in the Jordan Valley

The 30 km. pipeline, approved after four years of planning, will carry 2.5–3.5 million cubic meters a year to farmers in the Jordan Valley • "Water is a precious resource – but not as rare as trust"

A view of the Jordan Valley near Jericho

UN official: Social media largely controlled by Jewish lobby, NGOs

“Israel has no intention of ending the occupation and the persistent discrimination against the Palestinians lies at the heart of the systematic recurrence of violations," Kothari said. 

 Deputy Minister, Alvin Botes delivers a National Statement at the Annual High Level Panel on Human Rights Mainstreaming under the theme “Thirty years of implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: challenges and opportunities”, at the UNHRC, Geneva.

Israel-US interests should not be influenced by Palestinian demands - editorial

Mahmoud Abbas is concerned that the Palestinian issue could be sidelined as attention is fixed on a new Middle East security alliance.

Then US Vice-President Joe Biden meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah March 9, 2016.

US demands accountability in Abu Akleh killing, no criminal probe held

US State Department spokesman Ned Price stopped short of holding Israel directly responsible for the Palestinian-American journalist's death.

 A portrait of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed during an Israeli raid, is displayed during a special mass in her memory in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in the West Bank, May 16, 2022.

Israeli forces likely killed Al Jazeera journalist - UN rights office

Israeli and Palestinian officials have exchanged recriminations over the incident, which has heightened tensions.

 picture of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed by Israeli army gunfire during an Israeli raid, according to the Qatar-based news channel, is displayed in Al-Jazeera headquarter building in Doha, Qatar, May 11, 2022.

Terrorist attacks unsurprising given Palestinian suffering - EU envoy

“What do you think a child who sees the houses of their parents, their brothers and sisters demolished?"

 Palestinians burn a representation of an Israeli flag during a protest over tensions in Jerusalem's al-Aqsa Mosque, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Jerusalem Day, on May 29, 2022.

The Nakba, the flag and responsibility - opinion

I have experienced first-hand the rage of the Israel Police to the site of the Palestinian flag at demonstrations in which I have participated in Sheikh Jarrah.

PROTESTERS HOLD a giant Palestinian flag in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip.

Has Temple Mount caused a new rift in Jordan-Israeli ties? - analysis

Islamic violence has become the Temple Mount status quo. This is the “status quo” that Western leaders wish to preserve?

 PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG shakes hands with Jordan’s King Abdullah II during his visit to Amman on Wednesday.