Monthly Archives: January 2021

Track record Avril Haines is a staunch advocate for military and counter-terrorism restraint, and a determined proponent of a major role for international law and human rights in the conduct of national security policy. She will assume a Cabinet level...

Im Gegensatz zu den USA will Europa trotzdem weiter für die UNWRA zahlen, obwohl diese gegen die UN-Standards für Friedenserziehung verstößt. Der Arabist Dr. Arnon Groiss, vorher bei Israels öffentlich-rechtlicher Hörfunkanstalt Kol Israel, heute bei der Israel...

The election of a new president of the US, Joe Biden, occurred with widespread Jewish support in several swing states. The time has come to ask how the new president can express appreciation to...

After down-to-the-wire negotiations, United Nations members have adopted a budget for 2021 that was higher than Secretary-General Antonio Guterres proposed and was strongly opposed by the Trump administration for including money to commemorate the...

When the German parliament labeled the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement as anti-Semitic, it garnered the praise of Jewish organizations worldwide. But despite the importance of the move, which influenced more European countries to adopt...

More than 1,000 Israeli Arabs have volunteered to serve in the IDF as conscripts or reservists in the past year, and most after the coronavirus crisis began in March, the military's Manpower Directorate said...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: A dispute over the role of religion in government constitutes the main rift in the world of Sunni Islam. This controversy also defines the two main camps in that world with regard...

We lament the divide between Jews in America and Jews in Israel. carolineglick.com/pollard-and-the-great-jewish-divide/  The two communities see things in radically different ways. American Jews tend to see the death of Jews as the price of peace. In other...

Introduktion FN:s hjälporganisation för flyktingar från kriget 1948 (UNRWA) tillhandahåller utbildning till skolbarn som är registrerade som flyktingar i Syrien, Libanon, Jordanien, Västbanken (inklusive Östra Jerusalem) och Gazaremsan. Vid de två sistnämnda områdena ansvarar UNRWA för...

As though corona was not enough of a challenge, Israel is now faced with a pandemic of another kind. It manifests itself in a variety of ways ranging from raging fever, hallucinations and irrational behaviour....