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Nov 8, 2026, 3:17 AM

Jacky Kadoch: ‘Morocco can show Israel how to live in harmony’

Jacky Kadoch, president of Marrakech’s Jewish community, pictured alongside King Hassan II and shaking hands with King Mohammed VI.

In Marrakech, a city where Jewish life once filled the narrow streets of the Mellah, the question of what remains of that past has become inseparable from the question of what can still be preserved for the future. The...

Nov 5, 2026, 9:50 AM

Echoes of Antisemitism at Frankfurt Book Fair 2026

PART 1 (Written with Alex Uberti) Since the early 2000s, we have been monitoring Arab book fairs across the Mediterranean and in the Middle East to identify texts and publishers that peddle hate or incite violence, especially against the Jews. Each year, such texts...

Nov 2, 2026, 12:23 AM

Morocco’s Sahara masterstroke: Changing the rules of a frozen conflict

A MINURSO vehicle beside Morocco’s full map. (AI-generated)

On October 30, the UN Security Council failed to renew the mandate of its mission in Western Sahara after Russia vetoed an American draft resolution supported by eleven of the Council’s fifteen members. The proposed text would have extended...

Oct 30, 2026, 3:54 PM

The Myth of Israeli Apartheid Unravels

The electoral performance of Israel’s Arab parties has exposed the contradictions in claims that the Jewish state operates a system of racial exclusion. The comparison with apartheid-era South Africa deserves closer historical scrutiny. An electoral result that demands scrutiny The results...

Alyssa Eisenstein

Oct 30, 2026, 1:15 PM

The Case for Arab Partnership in a New Government Coalition

Why this week’s unprecedented Arab-Israeli voter turnout is a wake-up call for Jewish Israelis While the nation attempts to make sense of Tuesday’s inconclusive election results and chart a path forward, I’m surprisingly optimistic. Why? I believe the current stalemate presents an...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Oct 29, 2026, 3:12 PM

Belize Slams Israel, Ignores Hezbollah in Corozal

Argentine investigators tracing the commercial fronts behind the 1994 AMIA bombing that killed 85 people later mapped a set of Lebanese import-export companies that had already penetrated Central American free zones by the late 1980s. Established primarily by diaspora...

Oct 27, 2026, 12:12 AM

Arab countries are not interested in a war with Israel

Bezalel Smotrich and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi face off against a backdrop of the Israeli and Egyptian flags. (AI-generated)

Watching the recent exchange between Bezalel Smotrich and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi made me feel like I was watching two different centuries talk past each other. Smotrich, speaking this month, floated the prospect of a future Egyptian attack and answered it...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Oct 25, 2026, 1:03 PM

Christians Butchered in Jordan. The West is Quiet

Moral accountability in modern diplomacy relies entirely on a perverse hierarchy of victimhood. Minor, localized provocations by radical Jews in Jerusalem trigger immediate, synchronized international condemnation across every social media ecosystem. Conversely, a wall of institutional indifference meets catastrophic...

Mihran Kalaydjian

Oct 24, 2026, 9:09 AM

France Has a Jewish Problem And It Isn’t the Jews

French Jews at the memorial march for Jewish murder victim Mireille Knoll in Paris, March 28, 2018 (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Imagine hundreds of thousands of French Jews pouring into the streets. Imagine them smashing storefronts, setting fires, attacking police officers and turning neighborhoods into battlegrounds. Imagine Jewish demonstrators torching government buildings because they no longer felt safe in their...

Mustapha Ezzarghani

Oct 21, 2026, 1:50 AM

Walking an Israeli friend to Synagogue in Morocco

I wanted to show an Israeli friend the Morocco I have spent years defending, a country where Jewish history is not foreign history but part of our own. Instead, a walk to a synagogue ended with an unidentified man...

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