Madeleine Albright has died at the age of 84. She will be most remembered for a moment of candor in a 1996 television interview that is still shocking 26 years after it first aired.

Determined to Stay: Palestinian Youth Fight for Their Village is a valuable resource that centers Palestinian experiences for young adult readers.

How dare anyone tell me
in these late years of my life
when I have seen everything and forgotten nothing
about the theft of an entire country
and the imprisonment of an entire people
that it is antisemitic
to believe in the rule of law

A new UN Human Rights Council report is the latest in a series by international and Israeli groups accusing Israel of the crime of apartheid. “There are pitiless features of Israel’s ‘apartness’ rule in the occupied Palestinian territory that were not practiced in southern Africa, such as segregated highways, high walls and extensive checkpoints, a barricaded population, missile strikes and tank shelling of a civilian population, and the abandonment of the Palestinians’ social welfare to the international community,” Michael Lynk’s report said. “With the eyes of the international community wide open, Israel has imposed upon Palestine an apartheid reality in a post-apartheid world.”

New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief Patrick Kingsley used a fresh apartheid report, by U.N. special rapporteur Michael Lynk, to finally slip Amnesty International’s apartheid finding into the paper. Kingsley wrote that Lynk, a distinguished Canadian law professor appointed by the U.N.’s Human Rights Council, had “accused Israel of committing the crime of apartheid in the occupied territories.” He quickly summarized Lynk’s finding, gave Israel’s foreign ministry and other critics a chance to respond — and then, right at the end, mentioned that Amnesty, among others, had produced a “similar” report.

80% of Middle East Studies Association scholars voted to endorse the Palestinian call for boycotts, divestment, and sanctions of Israel

Anger can move one to action, but bitterness? Nada Elia struggles with the world’s, and her own, reaction to the invasion of Ukraine.

Last week all 25 Jewish congresspeople took the highly unusual step of condemning Paul O’Brien, director of the U.S. branch of Amnesty International, for remarks opposing Israel’s definition as “a state for the Jewish people” and questioning Jewish support for Israel. The Congress members were acting strategically: trying to discredit the recent Amnesty report that Israel practices “apartheid.” But they and O’Brien have raised a key issue. Just how many American Jews oppose the idea of a Jewish state?

Architect Elias Khuri tells the story of a home built around 12 olive trees in the Galilee village al-Mashhad. The home reflects Palestinian architectural heritage and the Palestinian tie to the land.

Prices are rising in Gaza due to the war in Ukraine. “What do I have to do with this war that is making the price of flour go up nine shekels?” a beleaguered taxi rider in Gaza city asks.