Israeli Palestinian Conflict

Ireland's hamfisted boycott bill is political theater at its worst - opinion

The Irish government is engaged in a symbolic and farcical legislative process to ban the import of goods from Israeli settlements.

(ILLUSTRATIVE) DEMONSTRATORS HOLD banners in support of Palestinians during a protest in relation to the ceasefire in Gaza, in Dublin, Ireland, February 21, 2026.
 People’s Peace Summit in Jerusalem, May, 2025.

The Paris Conference, the peace industry, and the illusion of representation - opinion

ISRAELI RIGHT-WING activists demonstrate next to Arab Israeli and left-wing activist students during a rally marking the anniversary of the Nakba at Tel Aviv University, in May 2026.

Why pro-Israel educators should teach the Nakba - opinion

Israeli soldiers driving a tank pass a line of waving civilians on the side of a road while advancing into Syria during the Six Day War, June 1967.

Six Day War: When Israel moved from survival to revival - opinion


Letters to the Editor May 21, 2025: The purpose intended

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

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Seven European countries condemn Operation 'Gideon's Chariot' ahead of its start

The statement said that expanded operations would cross a red line and would affect "any prospects of a viable two-state solution."

 IDF troops operate in northern Gaza, May 15, 2025.

'The Human Scale': Israel-based FBI mystery is a page-turner - review

The Human Scale is a superb contemporary political thriller that goes well beyond simply keeping the reader enthralled with a succession of unexpected developments, page after page.

An FBI vehicle

Spreading the truth, beauty of Israel: Time for the Jewish state to pay for a PR firm - opinion

The totality of the failure of collective American Jewish organizations to get even basic facts about Israel to be spread in the US is astounding. Time for Israel to pay for a PR firm.

 Israel Day parade, New York City, June 2, 2024.

'The Battle for the Jewish State': The ties that bind the US and Israel - review

Readers can assume that the author believes that her prescription for success in that struggle – an iron-clad US-Israel alliance – has a far greater chance with Trump as president.

 US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a joint press conference in the East Room at the White House in Washington, US, February 4, 2025; illustrative.

How to ensure this is the last Israeli-Palestinian war - excerpt

This piece is an adapted extract from Ittay Flescher’s upcoming book, The Holy and the Broken: A Cry for Peace from a Land That Must Be Shared.

 A quote by Lorraine Schneider.

Palestinians should be resettled in Arab countries that expelled their Jews - opinion

Israel integrated Jews forced to join them from those Arab counties. If justice is to be done, those Palestinians should be relocated out of their refugee camps and resettled in those same countries.

 A flight from Aden, Yemen, to the newly formed State of Israel during Operation Magic Carpet, which brought thousands of Yemeni Jews to the Holy Land (1949-1950).

No to Trump's false hope: Solutions to the Gaza crisis can only come from Israel - opinion

The ideas that Donald Trump promotes are so disconnected from reality, that they remind us that salvation will not come from the other side of the world.

 US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, February 2025.

Trump should reject the long-accepted Palestinian narrative on indigeneity, refugeehood - opinion

After Trump’s bombshell remark concerning Gaza’s future, the next logical step for President Trump is to confront the half-truths and outright falsehoods of the Palestinian narrative.

 An illustrative image of US President Donald Trump superimposed over displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Minorities abandoned: Europe's double standard on Islamist oppression in the Middle East - opinion

Just weeks after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Europeans rushed to meet with the new master of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa. They remain in favor of a Palestinian state, and rush to condem Israel.

 European Union High Representative Kaja Kallas and UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen meet with foreign ministers of different Middle Eastern states, Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit, and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, to discuss developments in Syria, on Dec. 14, 2024.