Rachel Avraham

The author is a senior media research analyst at the Center for Near East Policy Research and correspondent at the Israel Resource News Agency. She is the author of Women and Jihad: Debating Palestinian Female Suicide Bombings in the American, Israeli and Arab Media.

Protesters gather as vehicles burn, amid evolving anti-government unrest, in Tehran, Iran, in this screen grab obtained from a social media video released on January 9, 2026.

The divide in Iran's protests: Why ethnic minorities are not taking to the streets - opinion

US President Donald Trump listens to Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev as he speaks during a trilateral signing event with Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan (not pictured), at the White House, in Washington, DC, August 8, 2025.

Time for a reset: Amid institutional paralysis, Trump and Aliyev call for a UN overhaul - opinion

 A MINE CLEARING operation takes place at the Gadot Observation Point, Golan Heights, in 2021.

Landmines kill or maim about 5,000 people annually, ban them now - opinion


Commentary: Why is today’s Jewish youth unaware of Israel’s legal rights?

When the 1967 war started, Jordan and Egypt were not the legal sovereigns of the Gaza Strip or the West Bank, so why is Israel viewed as being in the wrong?

The Jewish People's Right to the Land of Israel by Salomon Benzimra

Double standards in international community must end!

When a Palestinian terrorist stabs an Israeli high school student in Afula, most of the world was silent.

UNHRC 521

Netanyahu, please help the Yazidi people

Over 3,000 Yazidi women and girls remain enslaved throughout the Middle East.

YAZIDI STUDENTS play last month near the psychotherapy center in the Rawanga camp in Iraq.

Debunking antisemitic conspiracy theories

News website in Turkey spreads concocted tales as other Muslim countries follow suit.

placards from an anti-Israel rally (Illustrative).

Where is the international outrage?

As the human rights of women and minorities is systematically violated across the Muslim world, the international community is eerily silent, preferring to systematically condemn Israel

Gaza Islamic Lecturer Tahani Abu Jazar: Islam defends the rights of women

Now is the time to act against Iran

After Netanyahu declared his intention to prevent Iran from establishing a permanent base in Syria, the US and Israel should embolden the Kurds to act against the Iranian regime.

Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a campaign meeting at the Mosalla mosque in Tehran, Iran, May 16, 2017. Picture taken May 16, 2017.

PM’s India trip: Can an alliance with Modi open up new doors for Israel?

With the burgeoning of Indian-Israeli relations and given the great influence of India both culturally and politically, can other countries in Asia follow in India’s footsteps?


The Bangladeshi government’s hypocrisy on Trump’s Jerusalem declaration

Bangladesh’s prime minister condemns Trump for his Jerusalem declaration while denying the will of the people

 A VENDOR sells pictures of Hindu goddess during Durga Puja in old Dhaka.

Israel should arm the Kurds

As a result, the Kurds lost the ability to sell Kirkuk oil.

Kurdish Peshmerga fighters are seen yesterday in the Karez area west of Mosul, Iraq.

Why Israelis should care about human rights abuses in Bangladesh

''As Israelis, we have a moral duty to care about and to stand in solidarity with political dissidents who face persecution in tyrannical dictatorships.''

ROHINGYA REFUGEES walk through a camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, yesterday