Israel Palestine

West Bank settlements are Israel's forward position, and its first line of defense - opinion

Rabbi Yoni Rosensweig recently captured the moral complexity of life in this land through a powerful analogy from the film A Few Good Men.

|ByALIZA PILICHOWSKI
DR. SHMUEL HARRIS (L) and Rosensweig, authors of ‘Nafshi Bish’elati: The Halachot of Mental Health.’
The New York Times building in Manhattan, New York City, pictured September 16, 2025; illustrative.

How Israel’s and America’s enemies weaponize the New York Times’ prestige - opinion

Enemy governments do not merely quote the Times; they convert its institutional authority and standing into an American credential for claims against the United States and its allies.

|ByAVIRAM BELLAISHE
DR. ALEX Sinclair's kippah, after police cut off the Palestinian flag.

The tear that exposes Israel’s democratic crisis - opinion

Israeli man arrested and kippah torn by the police, illustrates the colonization of minds and reflects the decline of the idea of coexistence in Israel-Palestine.

|BySEBASTIEN LEVI
Workers and volunteers on an archaeological dig sift through dirt at Alexandrion/Sartaba in the Jordan Valley.

Israel digs up the West Bank – and reignites a battle over history

As Israel expands excavations in the West Bank, ancient ruins become entangled in a modern political struggle over land, history, and identity

|ByRUTH MARKS EGLASH

92NY in tumult after canceling Israel-critical author event, as Israel-Hamas war roils arts world

Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nyugen, whose event was staged at a different location Friday evening, considered the 92NY’s decision a “cancellation.” 

OCTOBER 26, 2023ByANDREW LAPIN/JTA
Pro-Israel students take part in a protest in support of Israel amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza, at Columbia University in New York City, U.S., October 12, 2023

Muslim boy killed in stabbing in Illinois linked to Israel-Gaza war

71-year-old Joseph Czuba is believed to have killed the 6-year-old in a hate crime motivated by the ongoing conflict in Israel.

OCTOBER 16, 2023ByREUTERS
Wadea Al-Fayoume, 6, a Muslim boy who according to police was stabbed to death in an attack that targeted him and his mother for their religion and as a response to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, poses in an undated family photograph obtained by Reuters on October 15, 2023

Arab states say Palestinians must stay on their land as war escalates

UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said: "Civilians need to be protected. We do not want to see a mass exodus of Gazans."

OCTOBER 13, 2023ByREUTERS
FIRE AND smoke rise during Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip this week. Iran and its genocidal proxy armies, such as Hamas and Hezbollah, must be crushed, the writer asserts.

Pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrators face off on Manhattan streets

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators approached the people who had come to the End Jew Hatred rally, screaming, “Hey hey, ho ho, Israel has got to go!”

OCTOBER 9, 2023ByLISA KEYS/JTA, JACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA
PRO-PALESTINIAN/anti-Israel groups hold a demonstration across from the Washington Monument, earlier this year. A sign reads: ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.’

West Bank's Area C 'integral to State of Palestine' - PA prime minister

PA Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh warned his cabinet that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government was working to "annex" Area C.

OCTOBER 3, 2023ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
A Jewish settler walks past Israeli settlement construction sites around Givat Zeev and Ramat Givat Zeev in the West Bank, near Jerusalem June 30, 2020.

Palestinian piece of Saudi-Israel deal is Israel’s last chance to prevent bi-national state

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023ByCOLONEL (RES.) DR. SHAUL ARIELI
Dr. Shaul Arieli

Israelis are losing faith in a peaceful two-state solution – poll

The survey also recorded a decrease in the number of Arab Muslims living in Israel experiencing discrimination.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
A man holds a Palestinian flag near young Jewish men holding Israeli flags in Jerusalem's Old City during Jerusalem Day celebrations, May 29, 2022.

Saudi Arabia, EU launch new initiative for Israeli-Palestinian peace

Saudi FM Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud said that there would be no solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict without a Palestinian state.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with PA head Mahmoud Abbas at the funeral of Shimon Peres, in Jerusalem, 2016. The Oslo process has been continued by every government including by Benjamin Netanyahu, says the writer.

Lawsuit alleges that California school district illegally approved ‘antisemitic’ ethnic studies

The plaintiffs say the class promotes a biased narrative of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and portrays Israel as illegitimate by applying labels such as “settler colonial”

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023ByASAF ELIA-SHALEV/JTA
AN EMPTY classroom in an east Jerusalem school, closed in protest at ‘Israeli censorship’ of PA-autorized school textbooks, last year.

Golda Meir considered Palestinian statehood, declassified documents reveal

Meir, who famously said "there was no such thing as Palestinians," apparently viewed a future Palestinian state as a possibility.

AUGUST 1, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
GOLDA MEIR, 1964.