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Sep 22, 2026, 5:12 AM

Hands Off My Palestine

The Palestine Reclamation Project: Palestine Is Israel. Hands. Off. My. Palestine. Image © Ivan Bassov, 2026. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Reclaiming the Name That Exists Only Because Israel Does What is Palestine? The question seems straightforward. It isn’t. Ask different people, and you will get radically different answers. There is no Palestine. Palestine is Jordan. Palestine is Gaza and Judea and Samaria. Palestine is the State...

Sep 18, 2026, 5:18 AM

Israel must challenge rather than engage ‘pro-Palestine’ performance politics

The Macklemore battle presents a trap that pro-Israel activists have yet to escape Two options: Either stay silent as more and more celebrities accuse Israel of genocide in ever more prominent forums, and hope the tide will pass, or wield...

Elkana Bar Eitan

Sep 15, 2026, 12:38 AM

If We Could Only Be a Little More of What They Say We Are

My brother-in-law was murdered in the heart of Jerusalem. He was murdered because he was a Jew. Simple as that. Nehemia Lavi was 41 years old. A husband. A father of seven beautiful children. His oldest was only 14...

Sep 8, 2026, 8:21 PM

I worked at Britain’s embassy in Israel. The East Jerusalem consulate had to go

Photo of British Embassy Tel Aviv taken by Shlomo Kates.

Israel’s decision to shut the diplomatic post may look like retaliation, but it exposed a UK Mideast policy built on an untenable fiction

Husein Mahmoud Saleh

Aug 31, 2026, 9:36 AM

When Religion Is Misunderstood

Between the Prophet’s ﷺ Example and Hatred of Jews: When Religion Is Misunderstood One of the most painful contradictions of our time is seeing the name of Islam invoked to justify hatred of Jews or the killing of civilians, while...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Aug 24, 2026, 5:30 AM

Bennett and Liberman Must End the Palestinian Mess

Naftali Bennett and Avigdor Lieberman correctly reject diplomatic fantasy, but turning that rejection into hard-nosed architecture requires shattering the West’s favorite delusions. For decades, the archaic Israeli foreign policy establishment chased the mirage of a centralized Palestinian state, creating...

Husein Mahmoud Saleh

Aug 16, 2026, 7:21 AM

Ali Al-Taher: Where Is the Escalation Heading?

The battle over Ali Al-Taher Hill is no longer simply a confrontation over a strategic position in southern Lebanon. What is happening around it carries broader military and political implications, amid growing fears that Israeli escalation could trigger a...

Mihran Kalaydjian

Aug 12, 2026, 10:00 AM

The West Bank Map That Was Never Supposed to Last

More than 30 years after Oslo, Israelis and Palestinians are still living inside a map that was supposed to disappear. Open almost any political map of the West Bank and three letters dominate the landscape: A, B and C. They...

Karen Lieberman

Jul 31, 2026, 10:43 PM

Lost Opportunity at the Canadian Human Rights Museum: Nakba Past and Present

An exhibit about the Nakba (catastrophe in Arabic) opened at the Canadian Human Rights Museum on June 26, 2026. Nakba is the term used for the period of time following the war waged by five Arabic armies against the...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jul 26, 2026, 9:16 PM

Israel Must Stop Iran from Rebuilding Proxy Armies

Israel has repeatedly shattered Hezbollah and Hamas on the battlefield, only to watch them rebuild for the next war. The problem is not a lack of Israeli military power or resolve, but a lack of political will to resist...

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