First intifada

Twenty-five years after 9/11: Looking back at the 'Before Times' for American Jewry

Despite the conspiracy theories that tried to pin the attacks on Israelis and Jews, the dominant narrative was that Israel and the United States were engaged in battle against a common enemy.

The new 9/11 Memorial Wall is seen at One Police Plaza in New York, on September 9, 2026.
A person uses an umbrella to block the sun at the Supreme Court amid a heatwave in Washington.

US Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor refuses to pause $655m. judgment against Palestinian Authority

A person walks outside BBC Broadcasting House. November 16, 2025.

BBC faces backlash for calling First Intifada 'largely unarmed and popular uprising'

Freed Palestinian prisoners released by Israel as part of a hostages-prisoners swap and a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel, gesture, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 13, 2025.

Hamas terrorist freed in hostage deal hosted in Canada, US orgs' webinar


Invitation to an intifada: Part 1

Thirty years on, a former soldier recounts 30 days that opened his eyes to the price of occupation

‘OTHER THAN a crash course in crowd control, we were never trained for this.’ The author (foreground) with two other members of his platoon near the village of Yanta, deep in eastern Lebanon, on June 12, 1982, the day after the cease-fire with the Syrians

Middle Israel: Thoughts from atop Har Adar

Behind this week’s terror attack lurks the return of the economic blindness that helped spark the First Intifada.

Israeli soldiers guard near the scene where a Palestinian gunman killed three Israelis and wounded a fourth in an attack on Har Adar before himself being shot dead, September 26, 2017.

David Friedman: Keep the American Embassy in Tel-Aviv

The Jerusalem Post

My front row seat to the intifada

Memories of a visit to 1980s Israel, the year after the first intifada began.

A Palestinian stone-thrower looks on as he stands in front of a fire during clashes with IDF troops in the West Bank village of Duma

Israel's wars as told through the headlines

The fight for Israel's existence, as told by the pages of 'The Jerusalem Post.'

War of Independence

This Week In History: Terror attack on Bus 405

Palestinian terrorist wrenches steering wheel from driver, runs bus down steep ravine killing 16 people and injuring 17.

An Egged bus 370 (R)

This Week in History: Deadly riots on the Temple Mount

After fringe Jewish group attempts to lay cornerstone for a “third temple" in 1990, Palestinians riot and Israeli police fire live bullets into the mob.

Palestinians, Israeli police clash at Temple Mount 311 (R)