Gilad Erdan has made a career of suppressing dissent and freedom of speech in Israel. Now that he is set to become the next ambassador to both the United States and United Nations Ariel Gold reviews his history and what is on his agenda
15-year-old Zaid Qaysia was shot in the head during an Israeli raid on the Fawwar refugee camp near Hebron. Soldiers were reportedly looking to arrest another teen from Fawwar for “insulting a soldier on Facebook” when Qaysia was shot.
As we mark Nakba Day amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Nada Elia implores us to make radical demands that secure a life of dignity for all.
A businessman from Cape Town plans to distribute 1 million face masks across South Africa.
Pompeo’s lightning visit to Israel shows that Republicans have a lot to gain by making Israel a political football, possibly gaining Jewish votes in Florida.
By refusing to acknowledge a Palestinian perspective and giving individuals such as Shlomo Shoham such a prominent platform and role in their event, the organizers of the Sustainable Global Leadership Academy have become complicit in Israel’s well-oiled efforts at Greenwashing the country’s abysmal human rights record.
Israel’s new US ambassador helped lead the Netanyahu government’s war on the BDS movement.
Hamza Abu Al-Tarabeesh’s fear of the coronavirus is based on his late grandfather’s death during a Tuberculosis epidemic in Gaza’s refugee camps during the mid-1960s. “I have no idea what the future holds for the refugee camps in Gaza,” Abu Al-Tarabeesh writes, “but I do know when it comes to infectious diseases and viruses, the past has been alarming.”
Life, for the most part, has returned back to normal in Bethlehem and most parts…
When young Jews marry non-Jews they become more distant from Israel, and in time they will undermine the “backbone” of Israel support, the American Jewish organizations that mount the case for Israel. That’s a “tragedy,” says Steven Bayme of the American Jewish Committee.