The land of Lord Balfour hosted a rare but much needed conference on his infamous…

For the average British pro-Palestinian human rights activist, the Balfour Declaration, published ninety- five years…

Jaffa, 1898-1914. (Photo: Matson Collection) ‘The settler owes the fact of his very existence, that…

The denial of representative government and democracy to the Arab Palestinians was the founding facilitation of British rule in Palestine and subsequently one of the key building blocs in the creation of Israel and the eventual ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

Most histories I’ve read portray the Balfour Declaration of 11/2/1917 as a great act of…

I’m about to do a dialogue with David Zellnik, the playwright, about our favorite character, Theodor Herzl. I read Herzl night and day. I adore him and identify with him. He was grand, ambitious, literary and honest with his readers….

Jack Ross takes on Professor Eliav Shuchtman’s belief that Israel should not be a state of all its citizens: The references to Israel not being “a state of all its citizens” as a principle of international law are clearly alluding…

I’m still mulling Marty Peretz’s longish phone conversation with Obama about Israel, also Jeffrey Goldberg’s longish interview with the candidate. One of the weird things about both conversations is the sense that Goldberg and Peretz are extracting a promise from…