Jewish state

If these flags could talk - opinion

There is a prevailing narrative that Israel is alone, but that is not true.

|ByDANIEL KOREN
AVI STUDENTS and stakeholders join for a flag-planting ceremony outside AVI headquarters in October 2024.
A DEMONSTRATOR holds an image of deceased Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a protest outside City Hall in Los Angeles, last week. The supreme leader thought he was invincible, but he was a lazy thinker, the writer notes.

Israel’s strategic independence: The transformation of Middle East politics - opinion

The supreme leader thought he was invincible, but he was lazy in his thinking. He did not do his homework; Israel, on the other hand, did.

|ByLEV STESIN
Armenian Orthodox worshippers arrive at the Church of the Nativity, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, to celebrate Christmas and Epiphany, January 18, 2026

Patriarchs’ statement on Christian Zionism lacked pastoral care - opinon

Church leaders’ January 17 message prioritizes jurisdiction and control over empathy, dialogue, and guidance for local believers.

|ByREV. DR. PETRA HELDT/THE MEDIA LINE
San Francisco city supervisor Scott Wiener comments on a pilot program to permit private commuter buses to use public bus stops in San Francisco, California, January 21, 2014

After debate backlash, California Democrat Scott Wiener says Israel carried out 'genocide' in Gaza

The California State Senator explained that he had been reluctant to call the war between Israel and Hamas a genocide because of the term's creation in response to the Holocaust.

|ByMICHAEL STARR

Celebrating New Year's in Israel? Why not? - opinion

As far as the Torah is concerned, we’re in the middle of Year 5782, but for the better part of our daily lives, we’re about to bid welcome to Year 2022.

DECEMBER 29, 2021ByBARRY NEWMAN
RINGING IN the New Year in Tel Aviv: I doubt any other religious or ethnic group has two calendars hanging on the refrigerator.

Mansour Abbas’s ‘Jewish state’ bombshell - opinion

Though he deserves kudos for breaking with the longstanding tradition of his peers in the Knesset, let’s keep in mind that he’s a politician with an agenda beyond what he touted in his campaign.

DECEMBER 23, 2021ByRUTHIE BLUM
MANSOUR ABBAS, head of the Ra’am Party, is seen after signing the coalition agreement, at Kfar Maccabiah in Ramat Gan, earlier this month.

Mansour Abbas recognizes the reality of Israel - editorial

Abbas’s bold declaration diverges drastically from the traditionally held views of Arab parties in the Knesset that Israel should be a state of all its citizens, and not a Jewish state.

DECEMBER 22, 2021ByJPOST EDITORIAL
MANSOUR ABBAS in the Knesset.

Israel is a Jewish state and will remain so - Ra'am's Abbas

The point of view of Arab parties in the past has been that Israel should be a state of all its citizens, not a Jewish state.

DECEMBER 21, 2021ByGIL HOFFMAN
MANSOUR ABBAS, head of the Ra’am Party, is seen after signing the coalition agreement, at Kfar Maccabiah in Ramat Gan, earlier this month.

Voices from the Arab press: New faces and new fears in Tehran

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

NOVEMBER 11, 2021ByTHE MEDIA LINE
IRANIAN STUDENTS crowd the US Embassy in Tehran, November 4, 1979.

Balfour Day: Dynamics that accompanied famous declaration still at play - analysis

In 1917, the Balfour Declaration became the seminal document that led eventually to the establishment of the State of Israel.

NOVEMBER 1, 2021ByHERB KEINON
Lord Arthur James Balfour and the text of the Balfour Declaration

How military experience changes perception of Israel

Living amid the rockets, I finally felt that Israel wasn’t just my homeland, but my home as well.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021ByNOAH MICHAELI
IDF soldiers guard a fence near the West Bank.

Israel needs to change its approach to Arab violence - Opinion

A failure of resolve, a slide into national anemia, a mistaken conflation of a desire to integrate Arabs into Israeli society with appeasement leading to lawlessness?

AUGUST 11, 2021ByDOUGLAS ALTABEF
A car set on fire by Israeli Arab residents during riots and clashes between Arab and Jewish residents, in the central Israeli town of Lod, on May 12, 2021.

A deep dive into the writings of visionary Theodor Herzl

CENTER FIELD: If there was one thing Herzl was famous for, it was for giving up on Europe and the Diaspora, and recognizing Palestine as their only viable long-term option.

AUGUST 3, 2021ByGIL TROY
A man dressed as Theodor Herzl reinacts his famous pose in New York City's Times Square

Letters to the Editor, August 4, 2021: Polls apart

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

AUGUST 3, 2021ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters