Occupation

Man arrested for waving Palestine flag at joint Jewish-Arab anti-government protest

The protest set out on Thursday afternoon, initiated by “Partnership for Peace” and dozens of other organizations and parties, marking 59 years since the Six Day War.

JEWS AND Arabs take part in a demonstration against Israeli settlements in the West Bank and to mark the anniversary of the Six-Day War in Haifa, northern Israel, June 6, 2026.
Exterior view of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025.

The EU-ICC assault - opinion

Palestinians throw stones at Jewish settlers as they establish a pastoral outpost at the site where Jewish settler Yehuda Sherman was murdered, near the village of Beit Mirin north of Nablus in the West Bank.

‘Settler violence’: A buzzword used to single out Israel - opinion

FILE PHOTO: Activists of the pro-democracy youth movement Vesna (Spring in Russian),  stand in a defendants' box during their verdicts announcement at the Saint Petersburg city court in Saint Petersburg on April 8, 2026.

Woman in occupied Ukraine jailed 14 years for buying Kyiv war bonds


The real 'conceptzia' is endless occupation - opinion

The most profound and fundamental cause of the failures we are reckoning with today is the “concept” of maintaining the occupation as if we can contain its harmful implications.

Israeli soldiers block the entrance to the village of Beita, in the West Bank on September 13, 2023,

Israel does not intend to 'reoccupy' Gaza or control it for long, official says

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told ABC News earlier this week that Israel would seek to have security responsibility for Gaza "for an indefinite period."

 An Israeli APC and a military vehicle drive along a road, near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, November 8, 2023

Gaza should be occupied by the US, UK, France, Germany - opinion

The US, UK, France, and Germany should be the bodies that shall bear the responsibility of governing the Gaza Strip and stabilizing it so there can be elections after a decade.

 A satellite image shows northern Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, October 28, 2023

Israeli teens to refuse IDF service due to 'occupation,' judicial reform

The group expects to send a formal letter to the IDF and has already posted publicly about the move on its X (formerly Twitter) account.

Young Israelis line up as they arrive to an Israeli army recruitment center at Tel Hashomer, outside of Tel Aviv on July 26, 2018

Qatar: We don’t have a war with Israel, the issue is the 'occupation'

Qatar's prime minister said the country backed the Arab Peace Initiative in respect to Israel and pushed for the establishment of a Palestinian state.

 Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani attends a meeting with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, in Kyiv, on July 28, 2023.

Ukraine launches 'special operation' in Russian-occupied Crimea

Brief and dark video footage posted alongside the statement showed a small motorboat moving through water at night near a coastline.

 Russian national flag flies with backdrop of the Kerch bridge after an explosion destroyed part of it, in the Kerch Strait, Crimea, October 8, 2022

Letters to the Editor August 16, 2023: An errant child

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

 Letters

Australia's government has taken an anti-Israel stance - opinion

The new announcement is just the latest in a number of steps the Australian government has taken to distance itself from Israel since its election in May last year. 

  PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and then-Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull hold a news conference in Jerusalem, in 2017. No previous Australian government has made a habit of using the term ‘occupied Palestinian territories,’ says the writer.

Letters to the Editor August 14, 2023: Concrete jungle

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

 Letters

Should Israel refer to Australia as occupied Aboriginal territory? - opinion

Australia’s Labor Party government ought to take a look in the mirror before hurling false and insulting accusations at Israel.

 AUSTRALIAN PRIME Minister Anthony Albanese speaks during a NATO summit in Vilnius, last month.