Israeli-Palestinian relations

Lessons from Hostages Forum: Making a Jewish movement for peace, equality - opinion

For too long, too many religious Jews have been asked to choose between loving our people and fulfilling our values.

|ByESTHER SPERBER
MEMBERS OF the Hostages and Missing Families Forum hold a vigil in London for the one-year anniversary of the October 7 massacre, on October 7, 2024,
Palestinian and Israeli flags overlook Dome of Rock and Western Wall

Why Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilding voices are being drowned out - opinion

We must amplify the powerful transformative work of Palestinians and Israelis working to move the conversation from confrontation to solution.

|ByMICHAEL M. COHEN
Ra'am party head MK Mansour Abbas leads a faction meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on November 24, 2025.

Only Jewish-Arab cooperation, peace with Palestinians will let Israel be a democracy - opinion

The key to victory is through Jewish-Arab political cooperation.

|ByGERSHON BASKIN
The scene after a suicide attack at the Park Hotel in Netanya during a Passover Seder in 2002, in which 30 civilians were killed: Oslo optimism felt like a dangerous delusion, says the writer.

Oslo’s legacy and the growing gap between Israel, Diaspora - opinion

Many American Jews, remain frozen in the amber of 1990s Oslo optimism. Living far from the bombs, insulated by distance and liberal universalism.

|ByALIZA PILICHOWSKI

Australia takes anti-Israel stand, approves a Palestinian sovereignty text

The resolution was voted on at the UN committee, with the US, Israel, Canada, and four other countries voting against the resolution.

NOVEMBER 14, 2024ByTOVAH LAZAROFF, MATHILDA HELLER
Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Commonwealth of Australia Penny Wong addresses the 79th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, US, September 27, 2024.

Consensus reached, time’s up for UNRWA: Israel’s Knesset says enough to 'toxic aid' - comment

The decision to ban UNRWA signals Israel's willingness to break free from organization and structures that breed hostility.

OCTOBER 29, 2024ByZVIKA KLEIN
Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a UNRWA school sheltering displaced people, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, June 6, 2024.

Grapevine October 20, 2024: Hope and memory

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

OCTOBER 20, 2024ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Together with a scribe, President Isaac Herzog writes a letter in a new Torah scroll.

Addressing anti-Israel sentiment through educational reform - opinion

The threat from faculty and curriculum.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024ByYISRAEL MEDAD
A protest encampment is set up in support of Palestinians, at the University of California, Berkeley, in April. The problem with the eruption of the anti-Israel protests has been the involvement of many faculty members in reframing the notion of Palestine, the writer argues.

We must confront forces of destruction with all our power - opinion

In a reflection on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the writer delves into the numerous peace initiatives that have been proposed and consistently rejected by Arab and Palestinian leaders.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024ByMOHAMED SAAD KHIRALLA
PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shakes hands with Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin as US president Bill Clinton stands between them, after the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords at the White House on September 13, 1993.

The Gaza pier shows America's approach to the war is tone-deaf - opinion

Successful mediation of an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will require the US to construct a strategy around the values of the people involved, not their own.

JULY 14, 2024ByALIZA PILICHOWSKI
A TRUCK carries humanitarian aid across the floating pier constructed to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip, last month.

It’s time to reassess Europe’s role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - opinion

The EU needs a balanced, updated strategy that considers both sides. It must clearly oppose all forms of hatred and violence, especially from those calling for Israel’s destruction.

JULY 6, 2024ByURI HALPERIN
OUTGOING EUROPEAN UNION foreign policy chief Josep Borrell attends an EU meeting in Brussels, earlier this year. An unbalanced EU policy undermines its potential to positively influence the situation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, says the writer.

How can we shape the future of Israeli-Palestinian relations? - opinion

Following the harrowing events that unfolded on October 7, Israel needs to find a way to look forward in order to the future challenges the conflict will present.

JUNE 25, 2024ByYOHANAN TZOREFF
Yohanan Tzoreff: Israel has the opportunity to determine the what hte future of the conflict would look like.

'Jews aren't the devil you make us out to be' - opinion

Israel was founded on values adored by today’s progressives (anti-colonialism, socialism, collectivism, communion with the land) by the most peripatetic and outcast of people (the “wandering Jews”).

JUNE 16, 2024ByMICHAEL CORWIN
A PROTESTER accuses Israel of war crimes, outside the International Court of Justice, in The Hague, last month. To accuse Israelis of following in the footsteps of the Nazis demonstrates a total lack of understanding of the history of the Jewish people, the writer argues.

'I have friends in Palestine': The tragic irony of a peace activist held by Hamas - comment

Her dramatic and heart wrenching words, "I have friends in Palestine," should be a wake-up call: Hamas, as well as a majority of Palestinians, will never acknowledge Israel.

MAY 22, 2024ByZVIKA KLEIN
Screenshot of video provided by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum of observers getting kidnapped to Gaza, May 22, 2024.