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Oct 3, 2026, 10:16 AM

Why Morocco’s Israel policy outlasts its governments

Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri’s appointment as Morocco’s first woman head of government marks a historic political breakthrough. King Mohammed VI appointed her on September 29 after the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) finished first in the September 23 legislative...

Abdiqani A. Aden

Sep 25, 2026, 5:41 AM

From Grievance to Geopolitics: What Somaliland’s CFR Appearance Reveals About a Changed Diplomatic Strategy

President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi (Cirro) addresses the Council on Foreign Relations, New York, September 24, 2026. (Photo: Office of the President, Republic of Somaliland)

At the Council on Foreign Relations, President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi framed recognition as a strategic bargain, not a historical debt — but the gap between his reception in Washington and actual U.S. policy tells its own story. For thirty-five years,...

Sep 21, 2026, 6:41 PM

My first academic paper on Israeli media is out. Here is what I found

Illustration depicting Israeli media coverage of Morocco. (AI-generated)

Shalom everyone, and Gmar Chatimah Tovah. I hope you are having a meaningful Yom Kippur. After months of research, revision, and close reading, my paper, “Adaptive Frames, Convergent Silences: Morocco in Israel’s English-Language Press across the Pre-Normalization, Normalization, and Post-October...

Sep 17, 2026, 4:35 AM

Beyond normalization: Morocco and Israel institutionalize a strategic bargain

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz, US Ambassador to Morocco Richard Duke Buchan III, and Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita meet to discuss the upgrade of diplomatic relations between Morocco and Israel on September 16, 2026. (Photo credit: Israeli Foreign Ministry)

The move from liaison offices to embassies is less a diplomatic revolution than the delayed completion of the 2020 compact – and the clearest evidence yet that the relationship has survived its hardest political test. Morocco and Israel’s decision to...

Sep 10, 2026, 11:35 PM

Sudan’s Chemical Weapons and the New Red Sea Security Order

Sudan‘s largest oil refinery set ablaze, sending thick, black smoke over Khartoum, the country’s capital. (AP Photo)

The latest revelations about Sudan’s alleged chemical weapons program expose more than another escalation in a war already defined by atrocities. They show how foreign military relationships are becoming embedded in Sudan’s security system and why the consequences extend...

Evan R. Bernstein

Sep 9, 2026, 11:55 AM

The Slavery Next Door, and the Apartheid Slur Aimed at Israel

A documented record of hereditary bondage, migrant auctions, kafala, and a Yazidi captive in Gaza—set against a Western vocabulary that reserves “apartheid” for Israel. Western capitals still treat “apartheid Israel” as settled moral language. Meanwhile, documented slavery and slave-like systems...

Grant Arthur Gochin

Sep 1, 2026, 6:06 PM

How Antisemitism Is Manufactured

On January 2, 2026, I published an opinion piece called Africa Must Fragment, South Africa First. I argued that colonial borders are not sacred forever and that peaceful, referendum-based self-determination should be available to peoples who want it. People were...

Aug 14, 2026, 6:53 PM

Ceuta is Moroccan, and the Israelification of its crisis changes nothing

Anyone with little sense of the geography who first heard of a “migration crisis into Ceuta” might reasonably have imagined desperate migrants reaching mainland Spain – only to discover, perhaps with some astonishment, that Ceuta is quite literally a city on the Moroccan coast, separated from the rest of Spain by the Mediterranean and distinguished from its Moroccan surroundings chiefly by the fact that Madrid still governs it. (AI-generated).

I am late to this – partly because I was away on summer vacation, but also deliberately so, because the sheer density of bad analysis, conspiratorial reasoning, and historical amnesia that followed the events of July 30-31 in Ceuta...

Aug 3, 2026, 7:36 AM

The Gog and Magog War: What’s Still Missing for Its Fulfillment?

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Ezekiel was a priest deported to Babylon in 597 BCE, eleven years before the Temple fell. His oracles run from roughly 593 to 571 BCE, and two chapters of his book, 38 and 39, contain its strangest vision. A...

Jul 28, 2026, 4:44 PM

Israel Must Read China’s Africa Tech Map

The next China-Israel story may begin far from Haifa, Tel Aviv, or Washington. It may begin in Cairo, where Huawei is selling AI infrastructure to Egyptian companies; in Rabat, where a Chinese battery giant is backing Morocco’s electric-vehicle ambitions;...

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