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Published in: HomeWho's afraid of the boycott
In Europe, a marked reticence among diplomats, lawmakers and bureaucrats has been recorded whenever this particular...
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Published in: HomePalestine, Israel, and the United States: Reframing the dominant narrative
It is time that this Palestinian narrative is given equal weight with the Israeli narrative in the American...
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Published in: openSecurityTensions rise between Israel and Hizbollah after Hariri indictiments
All eyes are on the Hizbollah-dominated Lebanese government as the UN indicts senior members over the Hariri...
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Published in: HomeAfter Obama’s Middle East speech: save Palestinian reconciliation
To get beyond the current impasse in the Israel-Palestine conflict, the "Quartet principles" need to be abandoned in...
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Published in: HomeBonfire of the experts: the Arab uprisings and the Israeli-Palestinian question
We need to understand that patience on the Palestinian side has almost completely run out after many fruitless years...
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Published in: HomeWhy Hamas has no need for Saatchi and Saatchi.
There is little evidence that suggests that sanitizing or transforming the Palestinian brand produces much of a...
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Published in: oDRHalf a victory: the campaign to free Soviet Jews
The campaign to give Soviet Jews the right to leave their country brought two diasporas and a world superpower...
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Published in: HomeThe Hamas-Fatah unity deal: regional and international power dynamics
Despite the best efforts of the US and its European and regional allies to ignore them, international and regional...
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Published in: 50.50Jewish. Orthodox. Feminist. Israeli.
Orthodox Jewish feminists may seem to outsiders to be a contradiction in terms. But as Cassandra Balchin discovers...
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Published in: Home'Unrecognized' Bedouin stake land claims in Israel
Demolitions began without warning on 27 July 2010 when the residents were evicted by well over 1,000 riot police...
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Published in: HomeJustice Goldstone's reversal and the question of intent
In its attempts to evade international accountability, Israel is silencing its own civil society, without which it...
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Published in: HomeLand, citizenship and exclusion in Israel
A new law that "formalizes the establishment of admission committees to review potential residents of Negev and...
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Published in: HomeIsrael and the Arab awakening
Israel’s political class is struggling to make sense of a crumbling Arab order and the loss of the certainties it...
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Published in: HomeIsrael and human rights: voice and silence
A series of legislative measures in Israel will further constrain Israel’s beleaguered human-rights groups. A...
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Published in: openSecurityEgyptians defy government ban in second day of protests
Egyptians defy government ban in second day of anti-government protests. Tunisia issues arrest warrant for Ben Ali....
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Published in: HomeIsrael vs Iran: rumours of war
Iran is again at the centre of international politics. Its diplomats are discussing their nuclear plans. Its nuclear...
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Published in: openSecurityNorth Korea reveals details of uranium enrichment plant
North Korea reveals details of new nuclear power plant. Iran blamed ‘Zionist regime’ for assassination of top...
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Published in: openSecurityConfusion over US-Israel settlement deal
The US and Israel deadlocked over settlement negotiations. The speaker of the Lebanese National Assembly has said...
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Published in: HomeIsrael vs Iran: the Washington factor
The mid-term election results in the United States carry implications for Israel’s military plans towards Iran.
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Published in: openSecurityIsraeli-Palestinian peace will isolate Iran, suggests Peres
Israeli President calls for Israeli-Palestinian peace as a means to isolate Iran. As the US and Pakistan foreign...