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Sep 17, 2026, 8:42 PM

Britain and Israel: A chequered relationship

As a child, I had heard of the Balfour Declaration, a document precious to Jews, couched in the form of a letter from Arthur James Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, to Lord Rothschild, a prominent member of the Jewish community,...

Sep 14, 2026, 8:27 AM

If you tell a lie often enough people believe it as fact

Many have died because of the greedy ambitions of a failing empire to have one last stab at survival. Palestinianism was created by Russia in 1964 using the Egyptian, Yasser Arafat, as a weapon with which to crush Israel and...

Sep 12, 2026, 11:18 AM

Was Zionism Colonialism?

The History Is More Complicated Than Either Side Wants to Admit Whether Zionism was colonialism has become one of the most politically charged arguments surrounding Israel and Palestine, and both camps treat it as settled. For one camp, Zionism was...

Sep 11, 2026, 2:27 PM

Miliband’s Sanctions Put Britain’s Relationship with Israel at Risk

Cave of the Patriarchs, Hebron, Judea and Samaria (Wikimedia commons)

This week, Britain’s new Foreign Secretary, Ed Miliband, decided to sanction Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. Miliband does not believe that the Jewish people have a right to live in Judea and, rather than sanctioning terrorist organisations such...

Ignat Ayzenberg

May 15, 2026, 6:46 PM

A Nakba Day Reflection on the Politics of Recognition

The power asymmetry between Israelis and Palestinians is shaped by the unequal condition of statehood and statelessness within a twentieth-century international order that increasingly organized political legitimacy through the nation-state. As older imperial, multinational, and pan-national frameworks weakened, peoples...

Apr 21, 2026, 7:29 AM

Our Only Choice

This week in Israel is very different beginning with last night’s Yom-Ha’zikaron-Day of Remembrance. It is a night when the entire country stops whatever it is doing and pays tribute to all who have given their lives for the...

Oct 28, 2025, 12:08 AM

The nation that was invented

The history of the Middle East rarely allows simple answers. Sometimes nations are born from culture, sometimes from faith — but more often from war, corruption, and bureaucracy. So emerged the notion of the Palestinian people: not as an ethnic...

Oct 27, 2025, 9:46 AM

Remembering Toronto’s Hadassah Bazaar

Photograph by David Matlow, Toronto.

Growing up in Toronto, the last Wednesday of October was always a special day for me. It was the day of the annual Hadassah-WIZO Bazaar in the Automotive Building on the Canadian National Exhibition grounds. For 84 years, the bazaar...

Oct 13, 2025, 11:04 PM

Israel at a Crossroads?!

For decades, Israel has been accused of rejecting precisely planned for Gaza. Critics call it stubbornness. Supporters call it self-defense. The truth lies between those poles: Israel did not reject precisely plan because it feared coexistence; it rejected precisely...

Cedric Vloemans

Sep 21, 2025, 5:20 PM

No right to speak: London lit this fire

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The United Kingdom is set to recognize Palestine as a state today. For some, it may sound like a historic gesture; for others, a political necessity in light of the tragedy unfolding in Gaza. But anyone with a sense...

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