14/07/2024. Ramallah. David Lammy meets Hussein al-Sheikh. Picture by Ben Dance / FCDO (CC BY 2.0)

UK Restoring Aid to UNRWA: A Flawed Decision

In what had been seen as a loud and clear message to Iran and Qatar, early this year, the United Kingdom was one of several countries to halt funding to the United Nations Relief...

A letter to Colleagues in Jewish journalism: Lift the veil of self censorship

For the better part of 21 years, ever since the launch of negotiations between Israel and the PLO, the Jewish media, as a matter of a policy of negligent reporting, have played down what...

Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial, Chapter 5: Zionism in the Arab World and The...

Introduction/Personal note: Salomon Benzimra z”l submitted this summary barely two weeks before his untimely death on March 15, 2016. He passed away on a flight back from Israel after a mission to consult with Tzipi...

Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial, Chapter 16: Jews in Palestine as “Illegals” and as...

Introduction The Balfour Declaration (1917) speaks definitively of , “...the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people”.  Four years later, The Mandate for Palestine repeats the identical phrase five times. Notwithstanding...

“False Friend”

Published in Midstream Magazine, Herzl Press, January 1988 David Bedein You can understand Uri Avneri any way that you like—as a quixotic Israeli journalist with an undaunted faith in the Palestinian Arab purpose, or as the...

The World Bank In West Bank and Gaza

2020 has been a tumultuous year for the Palestinian economy, which is suffering the economic fallout of the COVID-19 outbreak, as well as a political standoff that has made it difficult for the Palestinian...

Israel, Jews and Peace in Textbooks used in UNRWA Schools In the West...

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the Palestinian refugees of the 1948 war and their descendants provides educational services to school children of this population in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, the West Bank,...

Review in Middle East Forum of GENESIS OF THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY

Genesis of the Palestinian Authority collects articles and policy papers by Bedein, director of The Center for Near East Policy Research and founder of the Israel Resource News Agency. The author has covered the Palestinian...

To Destroy Jerusalem, by Howard Kaplan

Writers House Publishing House, , LA, Cal. 363 pages Reviewed by David Bedein, Israel Resource News Agency TO DESTROY JERUSALEM, Kaplan’s fifth gripping Middle East thriller, is his longest and most ambitious to date. A historical...

Soros Documents Highlight Irresponsible and Unaccountable Funding to Political NGOs

On August 14, a number of leaked documents from the Open Society Foundations – a political framework funded by George Soros – were posted anonymously on the DC Leaks website. The material covered...