Israel Palestine

How Israel’s and America’s enemies weaponize the New York Times’ prestige - opinion

Enemy governments do not merely quote the Times; they convert its institutional authority and standing into an American credential for claims against the United States and its allies.

The New York Times building in Manhattan, New York City, pictured September 16, 2025; illustrative.
DR. ALEX Sinclair's kippah, after police cut off the Palestinian flag.

The tear that exposes Israel’s democratic crisis - opinion

Workers and volunteers on an archaeological dig sift through dirt at Alexandrion/Sartaba in the Jordan Valley.

Israel digs up the West Bank – and reignites a battle over history

 Grade 12 Arabic textbook teaching a poem praising children in Gaza for fighting and dying as martyrs to liberate Palestine.

Tunisia’s schoolbooks celebrate Hitler, omit Holocaust, research finds - IMPACT-se


Has Temple Mount caused a new rift in Jordan-Israeli ties? - analysis

Islamic violence has become the Temple Mount status quo. This is the “status quo” that Western leaders wish to preserve?

 PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG shakes hands with Jordan’s King Abdullah II during his visit to Amman on Wednesday.

Nides: Israeli settlement growth infuriates me, calls it 'stupid things'

It is impossible to avert "every single house" built in the West Bank, US ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides explains to Peace Now.

 US Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides on December 2, 2021

The disingenuous attempt to link Ukraine with Palestinians - analysis

The Ukraine crisis and the Palestinian cause are not remotely the same – and attempts to link the two are disingenuous.

 People rallying in Washington, D.C. in support of Ukraine, February 27, 2022.

UN appoints arbitration committee to probe Israeli apartheid

The UN has appointed an arbitration committee to probe Palestinian Authority charges that Israel committed acts of apartheid.

Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas arrives to delivers a speech during the United Nations Human Rights Council on February 27, 2017 in Geneva

Israel not apartheid state, but must uphold int'l law, UK says

An Amnesty International report laid out a long list of its allegations of Israeli human rights abuses, including inequitable access to land, housing and citizenship. 

Israel Apartheid Week at Columbia University.

US expects 'full accountability' from IDF for Palestinian-American death

The United States called for 'full accountability' from the IDF over the death of an elderly Palestinian-American who died of cardiac distress after he was briefly detained by army soldiers.

 US State Department spokesman Ned Price speaks during daily press briefing at the State Department in Washington, DC, US, February 22, 2021

ADL, Jewish orgs denounce ‘terrorism’ by extremist Jewish settlers

The letter, signed by a total of 7 organizations, was addressed to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett as well as Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Defense Minister Benny Gantz.

 Palestinians extinguish a fire in a field around the village of Burin, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, after Israeli settlers from the settlement of Yitzhar set it ablaze, according to eyewitnesses from the village council, Jun. 29, 2021.

UN’s biased and destructive obsession with Israel - opinion

The current UN General Assembly session recently approved yet another investigation of human rights abuses allegedly committed by Israel.

Ambassador Gilad Erdan is seen holding a graphic about Hamas while speaking to the UN General Assembly, on May 20, 2021.

Sisi: Gaza reconstruction needs more than $500 million

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi says the Gaza Strip needs more than $500 million for rebuilding efforts in the aftermath of the 11-day war between Israel and Hamas.

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi attends the Dialogue of Emerging Market and Developing Countries in Xiamen in southeastern ChinaÕs Fujian Province, Sept. 5, 2017

Israel won’t hold peace talks with Palestinians even after PM rotation - Lapid

Lapid made the remarks days after Defense Minister Benny Gantz met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

From left to right: MK Idit Silman (Yamina), Defense Minister Benny Gantz, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett