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Vincent James Hooper

Nov 6, 2026, 12:10 PM

The Jar on First Avenue

Fill a jar with marbles and press down the lid. At some point the loose heap stops behaving like a heap and becomes a solid. Physicists call this jamming. In June, the Nobel laureate Giorgio Parisi and Francesco Zamponi...

Nov 3, 2026, 9:15 AM

You Can’t Keep Invoking Resolution 181

1947 meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

A Follow-Up to “You Can’t Have It Both Ways” My recent article, “You Can’t Have It Both Ways,” made a fairly simple point. Israel held elections. Israeli citizens voted for the 120 members of the Knesset, who will determine who governs...

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...

Mansoor H. Laghari

Oct 30, 2026, 3:36 PM

When Removing a Road Barrier Becomes Terrorism

When Removing a Road Barrier Becomes Terrorism: Pakistan’s War on Human Rights Defenders The ten-year prison sentences handed to Imaan Mazari and Hadi Ali Chattha raise disturbing questions about judicial independence, constitutional protections, and the criminalization of dissent in Pakistan. Islamabad...

Oct 29, 2026, 10:59 AM

You Can’t Have It Both Ways

On October 27, Amnesty International UK declared that Israel’s election exposed “apartheid at the ballot box.” Image: Ra’am (Arab) party leader Mansour Abbas and other party members stand on stage following the release of exit poll results in Sakhnin, Israel, on October 27, 2026. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

When “Palestine” Is a State, Except When Israel Holds Elections Israel has just held another national election. Israelis voted for the 120 members of the Knesset who will decide who governs the State of Israel. And, predictably, the international commentary has...

Oct 28, 2026, 4:43 PM

Betrayal of the Jews

I highly recommend the following concise (38 minutes) video history of the Jews’ late 19th and 20th century effort to obtain statehood in their homeland in what was then called, “Palestine”. The betrayal mentioned in the video’s title alludes...

Oct 27, 2026, 5:11 PM

Pillay’s Nobel Rests on a Number Nobody Checked

Chris Sidoti, a member of the UN Human Rights Council's commission of inquiry, told a Melbourne audience the panel never verified its 83 percent figure. (Graphic: Mitzpe Institute)

Oslo gave its Peace Prize this month to the woman who chaired the UN panel that accused Israel of genocide, and one of the two men who sat beside her has now said the panel never checked the number...

Silas Anastacio

Oct 27, 2026, 1:15 AM

The Jewish Diaspora is in Danger

Attacks on synagogues, assaults in the streets, hate speech, intimidation of Jewish business owners, and large-scale political demonstrations have once again raised alarms about the growing insecurity faced by Jewish communities in various parts of the world. In recent years,...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Oct 27, 2026, 1:07 AM

Brazil and Serbia Seal Black Day for Israel Allies

In a razor-thin victory, Brazilian voters re-elected Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva—long shadowed by the Odebrecht corruption scandal—to the presidency with 51.79% of the vote (64.26 million ballots), defeating right-wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro at 48.21% (59.83 million). Simultaneously, across...

Oct 26, 2026, 1:19 PM

Sanctions and Cryptocurrency: Exploring what Isolation could mean for Israel

This is not an article about who to vote for. Rather, it is intended to clarify the implications of Prime Minister Netanyahu's 'cryptocurrency' remarks from motzei Shabbat (Saturday night). In the foreign policy debates ahead of Israel's forthcoming elections, there seem...

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