Israel and Palestine

When all criticism looks like hostility, both sides lose to their extremes - opinion

Israel must distinguish between legitimate criticism and campaigns aimed at denying its legitimacy – and its serious critics have a responsibility to make the same distinction

Protesters in Switzerland hold a banner reading: ‘Sanction Israel, End Complicity,’ in June. Israel should confront actors who seek its elimination, expose factual distortions, and challenge the misuse of legal and historical terminology.Premium
Jews who support the re-establishment of Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip march near the Israeli border with Gaza, in southern Israel, July 19, 2026

Only 17% of Israelis, 21% of Palestinians believe peaceful coexistence is possible, poll finds

Qatar's PM and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani visits Egypt

Qatari official: War in Gaza was the ‘nucleus’ for Iran’s attacks on the Gulf, pushes for deal

Chief Justice Esther Hayut and fellow Israeli Supreme Court judges at the High Court in Jerusalem

Court orders return for Jalud Palestinian families home after extremist settlers drove them out


Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib share 'Holocaust contest' prize winner cartoon

The two congresswomen posted a Brazilian-Lebanese artist's drawing in response to being barred from entering Israel.

U.S. Rep Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and U.S. Rep Ilhan Omar (D-MN)

The Invisible Palestinian

For PA leaders, individual Palestinians are invisible; they exist only as tiny pieces of the large nationalist agenda.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses Arab journalists in Ramallah on July 3

Books: The spies of 1948 who helped win the war

Behind enemy lines at the birth of the Israeli secret service.

Matti Friedman, who grew up in Toronto and lives in Jerusalem, is an Israeli-Canadian journalist and author who is also an op-ed contributor to ‘The New York Times’

Israel has support in its war crimes debate with ICC - analysis

In 2018, the ICC Chief Prosecutor issued a report which seemed to signal that the ICC was close to a decision on whether to investigate allegations of war crimes in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda speaks with her deputy, James Stewart, at an ICC hearing in March 2014

Testimony released in case of two Palestinians beaten by IDF soldiers

The father and son were admitted to Shaarei Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem with broken ribs and noses.

An IDF soldier maps out the home of the Barghouti brother terrorists

U.S. rabbi: Jews can be bridge between Muslims and Evangelicals

“I’ve been asked by the Saudis and the Bahrainis to help create a relationship between them and the Evangelical community in the US.”

Rabbi Marc Schneier with United Arab Emirate's Minister of Tolerance, Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak. Schneier said Gulf States have asked him to help create a relationship with Evangelical Christians in the US.

Israel weary of inroads by Palestinians at ICC

A Palestinian official was elected to a committee that oversees judicial nominations.

International Criminal Court is seen in The Hague, Netherlands September 27, 2018

PA slams U.S. envoy over ‘economic peace’ talk

The PA denounced Greenblatt as an “arrogant colonist” and an “ally of settlements.”

U.S. Envoy for Middle East negotiations Jason Greenblatt on a visit in Israel

The Olso Agreement was assassinated with Rabin

We will never know whether Rabin could have succeeded, but his assassination removed from the field a major player who could have made a difference.

Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres in 1994

The Olso Agreement was assassinated with Rabin

We will never know whether Rabin could have succeeded, but his assassination removed from the field a major player who could have made a difference.

Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres in 1994