Joel Braunold

Joel Braunold serves as the Executive Director of the Alliance for Middle East Peace, a coalition of over 95 different organizations working in every sector of society building relationships between Jews and Arabs, Israelis and Palestinians. He is an alumnus of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and holds a BA(Hons) in philosophy from Bristol University. He is the recipient of the Avi Schaefer Peace Innovation Prize, is a senior fellow for the Alliance for Youth Movements and holds Honorary Life Membership to the National Union of Students (UK) and the Union of Jewish Students (UK). He writes here in a personal capacity.

Voting in Israel

The 2019 election – the rise of the far Right

Abbas and Kushner

Getting to yes

A man rides past a pro-Trump sign in Tel Aviv

Importance of Trump’s political capital in making the ultimate deal


Nervous times for Jews in America

For this nervous moment to pass we need both our government, and the resistance to it, to recognize that American Jews are feeling a little frightened right now.

CONTENTIOUS TIMES in America are bringing out antisemitism.

Tribal classrooms lead to a tribal society

An in-depth look at the conflicting nature of the tribes of Israel.

Israeli classroom

Descent into demography

It is not just the Right that has used demography in political campaigns in Israel.

US President-elect Donald Trump (L) and Vice President-elect Mike Pence (R) greet retired Marine General James Mattis in Bedminster, New Jersey, US,

Hope is not a strategy

While in most countries the younger population represents a more left-wing and socially open constituency, in Israel the trend is actually the opposite.

People carry Israeli flags during a Jerusalem Day march in the capital.

Israel’s aid should not go to American Jewish college students

Israel as a country, and certainly as a coalition government has enough of its own problems in working out what being Jewish means to preach it to its biggest Diaspora.

A pro-Israel rally in New York in 2014