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Zubin Mehta cancels all Israeli shows, cites Netanyahu's 'treatment of Palestinians'

Zubin Mehta, an Indian conductor who was IPO musical director for 50 years, condemns Netanyahu's policies on Palestine and urges the arts community to speak out.

|ByJAMES GENN
Conductor Zubin Mehta attends the American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Duet Gala at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on November 10, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California; illustrative.
Egyptian Ashraf Mahrous, 44 years old, pulled 20 private cars for a distance of 10 meters on August 1, 2025 in Cairo, Egypt.

Guinness World Records no longer accepting submissions from Israel, Palestinian territories

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, citing the Post report, called the announcement twisted: "This is inexcusable."

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
A person walks past a campaign poster of Turkish Cypriot leader and candidate Ersin Tatar, in the divided city of Nicosia, Cyprus, October 18, 2025

Turkish Cypriots vote for a leader as peace talks hang in balance

Voters in north Cyprus cast ballots in a presidential race seen as a test of whether long-stalled talks to reunify the divided island can resume.

|ByREUTERS
A drone view of Al-Arroub refugee camp alongside a new road, part of the expansion of Israeli bypass roads connecting Israeli settlers in the West Bank with Jerusalem, in the West Bank, September 29, 2025.

Spain launches investigation into 158 companies tied to 'Israeli-occupied territories'

According to a new law approved by the Spanish Government last week, the advertising of goods and services from the 'occupied territories' is prohibited.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER

Voices from the Arab press: A Black Cleopatra?

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

MAY 6, 2023ByTHE MEDIA LINE
COULD BRAD PITT – seen at the Cesar Awards in Paris, Feb. 24 – play Nelson Mandela?

Israel's persecution of Palestinians is wrong and has to end - opinion

No moral human being can look at what we as Israelis are doing to the Palestinian people and not feel outrage.

APRIL 13, 2023ByGERSHON BASKIN
MUSLIMS, JEWS and Israeli security forces are present on the Temple Mount during Passover and Ramadan.

Palestinians should learn from Israeli judicial reform protests - opinion

Israelis are right to rebel against a government bent on altering the laws for the expediency of forming a ruthless coalition government.

APRIL 4, 2023ByBISHARA A. BAHBAH
ISRAELI FORCES detain a Palestinian, during a protest in Huwara, last week. Maybe now that Israelis fear for their democracy, they might start thinking about what their government has done to the Palestinians, says the writer.

Israel, Palestinians never intended to follow Sharm el-Sheikh agreement - opinion

I have spoken to some senior officials on both sides, and it seems clear that there is no real intention of actually implementing the communiqué that was agreed on in Sharm el-Sheikh.

MARCH 23, 2023ByGERSHON BASKIN
A MAN holds a Palestinian flag and tires are burned at the Israel-Gaza border fence, during a protest against the Israeli-Palestinian meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, on Sunday.

Letters to the Editor March 1, 2023: The very concept of democracy

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

MARCH 1, 2023ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters

Moral idiocy: Academics fuel Palestinian terror against Israel - opinion

Jews have often been blamed for their enemies’ enmity. This Palestinian addiction to violence, however, reveals more about the killers than those killed. 

FEBRUARY 15, 2023ByGIL TROY
MOURNERS ATTEND the funeral of Asher Menachem Pally on Saturday night, after he died of injuries sustained in Friday’s car-ramming terror attack in Jerusalem.

Israel's Right lied about the court, lust for despotic rule - opinion

Israel's legal system has managed to preserve our right to not be arrested in the middle of the night by an elected dictatorship’s political militia.

FEBRUARY 7, 2023ByDAN PERRY
SUPREME COURT President Esther Hayut flanked by justices Uzi Vogelman (left) and Isaac Amit. The court has, in fact, not dared to decisively impact the burning issues rending Israeli society, says the writer.

From legal occupation to annexation, and how it’s viewed internationally - opinion

Since 1967, there has been a situation known internationally as temporary occupation, with legal recognition of the temporary legitimacy of the Israeli presence in the territories.

FEBRUARY 5, 2023ByDANIEL CARMON
FOREIGN MINISTRY Director-General Alon Ushpiz (right) sits alongside Foreign Minister Eli Cohen at a ceremony at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem when Cohen was welcomed as the new minister.

UNHRC discriminates against Israel, should send rapporteur home - opinion

Appointing a UNHRC rapporteur to Israel is an outrageous and totally fictitious antisemitic assessment of the relationship between our Arab citizens and residents, and the Jewish Israeli public.

JANUARY 31, 2023ByWALTER BINGHAM
MICHAEL LYNK, then-special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, attends a session of the Human Rights Council at the UN in Geneva, in 2019.

In Nablus, Lions' Den vows to continue resistance against Israel

To most residents of this large city in the northern West Bank, these young men are the new face of Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation.

JANUARY 27, 2023ByLINDA GRADSTEIN
Posters of Palestinian ‘martyrs’ in Nablus