Kurds and Israel

Kurdish forces: A crucial piece in Iran’s democratic future - opinion

Leading Kurdish figures shared their views on challenging Iran’s clerical regime, envisioning a post-Islamist era and potential collaboration with the US and Israel, on webinar.

|ByOFRA BENGIO, VEYSI DAG, ELYANA ELYAN
Iranian Kurdish fighters from the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) take part in a training session at a base on the outskirts of Erbil, Iraq February 12, 2026.
Kurdish coalition forces.

Iranian Kurdish dilemma: Should they fight for a free Kurdistan or risk being used? - opinion

As tensions rise with Iran, Kurds face a familiar dilemma: seize opportunity or risk repeating a long history of abandonment by global powers.

|ByMEM HUSEDIN, JASON SHVILI
KURDISH PESHMERGA fighters affiliated with PAK train in January near Erbil, Iraq.

We are not mercenaries: Will Kurds become the boots on the ground against Tehran? - opinion

Kurdish forces may attack Iran, but only if the US and Israel guarantee political and military backing for their people.

|BySUSAN QUITAZ
Security for the protest is provided by the local Asayish (Kurdish Police) during a demonstration for Kurdish rights on February 10, 2026 in Qamishli, Syria. The protests called for the protection of Kurdish rights and the achievements of the Rojava revolution as the region

Israel's national security dependent on supporting Kurdish cause, Kurdish leader says

“National security is achieved only through support for the cause. We are talking about a new Middle East with four key countries: Syria, Iraq, Turkey, and Iran. The Kurds are in all of them."

|ByDR. EDY COHEN

How the Abraham Accords and Kurdish alliances could transform the Middle East - opinion

Kurds see hope in the Abraham Accords but face serious opposition from Iran and Turkey. Could alliances shift?

OCTOBER 21, 2024ByVEYSI DAG
Aghdas Dyonisio, an Iranian Kurd, holds a portrait of Jina (Mahsa) Amini at a protest in Los Angeles following Amini’s death in September 2022. The murder has become a symbol of Iranian repression toward Kurds and other minority ethnic groups in general, says the writer.

The free world must support Iran's minorities in toppling the Iranian regime - opinion

It is the duty of the free world to support the protests seeking “women, life, freedom” and the minorities of Iran wishing to establish a national government separate from Tehran.

MARCH 27, 2024ByMORDECHAI KEDAR
IRAN’S SUPREME Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gestures after he votes during parliamentary elections in Tehran, earlier this month. Iran, like all dictatorial regimes, will one day fall and we in the free world have a duty to accelerate this process, says the writer.

Kurdish solidarity delegation from Germany visits Israel

The visit was to express the Kurdish solidarity with the Jewish people and the Kurdish sentiments that the Jews are not alone.

FEBRUARY 22, 2024BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Members of a Kurdish group from Germany, Austria and Denmark visited Israel this week to show solidarity in the wake of the Hamas massacre, February 2024

Kurdistan can be Israel's ambassador to the Muslim world - municipal candidate

AT THE TABLE with Yehuda Ben-Yosef, an Israeli-Kurd community leader and municipal election candidate who wants Kurdistan to be Israel's next Azerbaijan.

FEBRUARY 9, 2024ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN, ERICA SCHACHNE
In conversation with city councilman Yehuda Ben-Yosef: ‘Jerusalem Post’ Deputy CEO of Strategy and Innovation Maayan Hoffman (L) and ‘In Jerusalem’ Editor Erica Schachne.

The US should delist this Iranian Kurdish 'terror' group - opinion

Since its founding in 2004, the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) has never attacked civilians in Iran, or anywhere else. It does not focus its offensive operations against any other government. 

NOVEMBER 23, 2023ByZACH D. HUFF
US President Joe Biden delivers an address from the White House last month, after visiting Israel following the Hamas massacre The US playbook lacks the deterrence needed to curb Iran, the writer maintains.

Isfahan drone attack linked to Iraqi Kurdistan, Iran state media reveals

On January 29, there were four explosions at the site, all of which appeared to specifically target a facility developing advanced weapons.

FEBRUARY 1, 2023ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
A picture taken late on June 2, 2021, shows fire raging at an oil refinery in the Iranian capital Tehran. - A fierce blaze broke out at the refinery in southern Tehran after a liquefied gas line leaked and exploded, the head of the capital's crisis team said on state television.

At a commemoration in London, Iraqi Jews tell of their flight to freedom

The legacy of the millenia-old Jewish communities of the Arab world must be preserved.

DECEMBER 5, 2022ByLYN JULIUS
A PANEL discussion takes place at the November 30 commemoration in London, chaired by the writer (center), and featuring Jack Hikmet and Sharon Theodore, who both lived in Baghdad at the time of the 1969 hangings.

Strengthening relations between Israel and Iraqi Kurdistan

Israel has a strong and special relationship with the Kurds, which extends to recent times when the Kurdistan Regional Government undertook a referendum to become independent.

JUNE 12, 2021ByHOGR TARKHANI
IRAQI KURDS celebrate a festival marking the first day of spring, in the town of Akra, in Iraqi Kurdistan, in March.

Great expectations: The Kurds of Iraq and President Biden - opinion

What can the Kurds of Iraq expect from the Biden administration?

JANUARY 20, 2021ByOFRA BENGIO
THE HEADQUARTERS of the Kurdistan Democratic Party burns during anti-government protests on the outskirts of Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, on December 8.

Turkey's Erdogan may call off U.S. trip after Congress votes

Erdogan is due in Washington on Nov. 13 at President Donald Trump's invitation, but said last week that the votes put a "question mark" over the plans.

NOVEMBER 4, 2019ByREUTERS
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump talks to Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium in July.