Biden Administration Failing to Reform U.N.’s Palestinian Refugee Agency

Its textbooks promote anti-Semitism and violence. Its previous leader resigned amid allegations of “misconduct, nepotism, retaliation . . . and other abuses of authority.” There is no question that the United Nations Relief and...

Weekly Commentary: Mr. Blinken Don’t Be A Condescending Jerk

Weekly Commentary: Mr. Blinken Don't Be A Condescending Jerk Dr. Aaron Lerner March 25, 2022 Mr. Blinken, don't be a condescending jerk. Pretty extreme words but well earned. Condescending because he joins his equally condescending jerk, Ambassador Nides, in...

David Bedein addresses ISGAP, February – 2017

David Bedein of the Israel Resource News Agency talks about the presence of antisemitic teachers and curriculum at Palestinian UNWRA schools and what is being done to combat them. A program of ISGAP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_Q9CRjpKNA&t=1s  

Fighting the Libel of ‘Settler Violence’

There are many outrageous charges leveled at Israel by Palestinian Arabs and their supporters on the political left. Advanced without concern for veracity, the charges enter public awareness by way of constant repetition. Now a...

Biden Admin Appointed Palestinian Government Lobbyist To Steer Mideast Foreign Aid Strategy

The Biden administration appointed a recent lobbyist for the Palestinian government to help oversee the distribution of $250 million in U.S. foreign aid to promote Middle East peace, a move that ethics experts say...

The Palestinian Refugees’ “Right to Return” and the Peace Process

Justus Weiner, who died this year, wrote this piece 25 years ago which is still relevant today, The Palestinian Refugees_ _Right to Return_ and the Peace Process

Qatar ups funding for UN Palestinian refugees agency

Qatar pledged more funding Tuesday for the United Nations’ Palestinian refugees organization. The Qatar Fund for Development announced an $18 million contribution to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). The money...

Mahmoud Abbas plays Benny Gantz for a fool

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz must have known that hosting Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas at his home in Rosh Ha’ayin would arouse the ire of the right. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have cloaked the...

A Guide to Fact Checking the New Israel Fund

REVIEW REPORT: DANIEL SOKATCH'S "CAN WE TALK ABOUT ISRAEL?" Daniel Sokatch, CEO of the New Israel Fund since 2009 and founding Executive Director of Bend the Arc (formally, the Progressive Jewish Alliance) recently wrote a...
Former Amona settler Nachum Schwartz, 43, at the site where he expects the Israeli government to build homes for his and other families in Emek Shiloh, West Bank. After Israel's Supreme Court ruled that the Israeli settlements in Amona were built illegally on private Palestinian land, Israeli police evicted and bulldozed move than eight homes. In the meatime, the former residents have been living in a nearby hostel in hopes the Israeli government will make good on plans to rebuild their home in a new settlement nearby in Emek Shiloh. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Linda Davidson

Palestinian Land Grab in Area C of West Bank

At a Knesset hearing last week, the Regavim movement reported that from 2019 to 2021, Palestinians built 5,907 illegal structures in Area C, the portion of the West Bank under full Israeli military and...