War rages between Israel and its neighbours. Much of Europe’s public opinion turns against the Jewish state, and antisemitism ...

Yaakov Lappin is a Research Associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, and a military correspondent. In this article he discusses what the Israeli defence establishment calls the ‘war ...

Erich Honecker, General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party in East Germany from 3 May 1971 to 18 October 1989, and Yasser Arafat, 10 March 1982. Photo by Rainer Mittelstädt. Wikipedia.

A new study by the Abraham Fund Initiatives is optimistic about the potential to increase Arab participation in politics. During the early years of Israel’s existence, voter turnout among the ...

Rabbi Binyamin (left) and Martin Buber, two members of Brit Shalom. The David B. Keidan Collection of Digital Images/Wikimedia Commons.

Noor A’wad joined Roots, a Palestinian-Jewish peacebuilding organisation, in 2016 after meeting Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger and Ali Abu Awwad in 2016. He organises joint Palestinian-Israeli activities and ...

There is perhaps no aspect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that is subject to greater distortion than the so-called Palestinian ‘right of return’. The term refers to the demand, erroneously stated ...

Photo by Leeor Ohayon taken at Adi Keissar home in Israel in 2015: https://www.leeorohayon.com/.

A group of over 230 Jewish scholars has signed an open letter expressing concern ‘about the current ideological environment in the US and elsewhere and the increasingly censorious culture in many ...

Ayub Nuri was born in the wrong place, or so he likes to quip. He comes from Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan. The origins of that town’s name come from nomads who, according to one popular interpretation, ...

Noga Emanuel reviews the TV series The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem, a dramatic adaptation of Sarit Yishai-Levy’s bestselling novel of the same title, set in the Jerusalem of the 1920s and 1940s. She ...

In 2020, following Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, the UK Labour Party was found guilty by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission of three breaches of the Equality Act for its treatment of Jewish ...