Churchill’s political involvement with Jews and Zionism was enormously variegated and long, and the list of headings under which this involvement can be assessed no less so… Continue reading
The British leader Winston Churchill visited Palestine in 1921, relatively early in his career while serving as Colonial Secretary… Continue reading
The British White Paper 1922 was the first official interpretation of the 1917 Balfour Declaration by the British Government after investigation of… Continue reading
Suppose you read in the Washington Post about a democratic politician who was a refugee from persecution by a dictatorship. Would you be surprised to learn that he was in fact a vicious antisemite… Continue reading
Anders Breivik, who went on a shooting spree in Norway last year, killing some 70 people, recently confessed his inspiration: al-Qaeda, the jihadists par excellence of the modern world… Continue reading
In all of this and throughout the nation on this day, there was not a word of hatred, of reviling any enemy… Continue reading
The trial of the two surviving members of the junta that seized power on September 12, 1980, in a coup that altered Turkey’s course, is an historic event, but… Continue reading
Who gets to be the caliph? After all, if you want to have a caliphate , as revolutionary Islamists do with much popular support among Muslims… Continue reading
The passage of the bill that remolds compulsory education in Turkey erases the legacy of the secularist military intervention fifteen years ago… Continue reading
Ironically, those opposing the current hegemonic ideas and political forces in the United States and Europe must develop a Marxist-style analysis of what has happened… Continue reading
On 21 March 2012, Turkish government officials began briefing trusted journalists on what they described as the new strategy of the ruling AKP for solving the country’s long-running Kurdish problem… Continue reading
When we assess the global nature of the current assault on Jewish freedom and sovereignty in our country, we see that the Jewish fight for freedom is an eternal struggle… Continue reading
A media orchestrated political storm blew through the volatile Middle East last year with the release of over 1,600 confidential documents relating to Palestinian negotiations with Israel… Continue reading
The Damascus Declaration was a statement of unity by Syrian opposition figures issued October 16, 2005 criticizing the Assad regime… Continue reading
I can only laugh at the idea of dilettante Peter Beinart and J Street as leader of the anti-Israel movement… Continue reading
The Netherlands is widely considered one of Israel’s closest allies but at the same time continues to take a critical stance toward Israel in line with EU’s pro-Palestinian policies. This article is about the shameful history of Dutch Christian anti-Jewish sentiment… Continue reading
Arab/Muslim apartheid comes in many forms, and some victims have been subjected to more than one… Continue reading
It may be useful to examine one of those aspects that are regularly distorted: the Muslim conquests… Continue reading
Of all the issues that drive the Arab-Israeli conflict, none is more central, malign, primal, enduring, emotional, and complex than the status of those persons known as Palestine refugees… Continue reading
Among the second wave of Arab Spring uprisings that followed Tunisia, Syria was the most spectacular “out of the blue” that suddenly arose in the face of the media and analytic community… Continue reading
Is the problem Islam or Islamism? Muslims or Islamists?… Continue reading
The advocacy of the destruction of a long-existing state, established by an internationally recognized act of national self-determination, has hardly dented Nusseibeh’s “moderate” credentials… Continue reading
Born with the rise of Christianity and Roman Catholicism, anti-Jewish sentiment is an old and firmly entrenched phenomenon in Europe… Continue reading
The Arabic-speaking people are themselves the victims of the self-inflicted nakba… Continue reading
Presidential candidate Ron Paul has said repeatedly that Iranians hate America because of its role in the 1953 coup overthrowing Prime Minister Muhammad Mossadegh… Continue reading
In a time when Western intellectuals, politicians, and journalists are trying to explain that the Muslim Brotherhood isn’t a radical Islamist group… Continue reading
It’s not every day that the leader of a brand-new country makes his maiden foreign voyage to Jerusalem… Continue reading
While there is nothing new or surprising in a paper’s refusal to own up to its misreporting… Continue reading
Everyone from the PLO to a Mitt Romney spokesman jumped on Gingrich for this assertion… Continue reading
Gingrich said Palestinians are an “invented” people… Continue reading
Judging from news reports, one might think that Palestinian nationalism has been active as long as… Continue reading
In recent years, small groups of Moroccan Berber activists, particularly younger people, have challenged… Continue reading
Thus far the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has weathered the storm that has swept across the Middle East… Continue reading
Israel’s Deputy FM Danny Ayalon explains the historical facts relating to the issue of refugees in the Israeli Palestinian conflict… Continue reading
Few realize how U.S. policy at the start of the radical Islamist era in Middle East history parallels that… Continue reading
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