Saudi Arabia vs. the Muslim Brotherhood

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...

Jews of Denial 

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...

Political pandemic

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....

Orthodox debate Zoom gatherings on Shabbat

Should Orthodox congregations permit Zoom services? There is debate over whether this is permissible under Jewish law (Halakhah). I am not a major Torah scholar and do not pretend to be one. The answer needs...

What constraints does the US Law hold over the PLO and the PA?

What constraints does the US Law hold over the PLO and the PA? The new US Congress will be sworn in on January 4, 2021. A new US Administration will be sworn in on January 20,...

Israel & UAE work together against UNRWA?

Writing from the perspective of a journalist who has provided intense coverage of UNRWA since 1987, there are at least two reasons to question the veracity of a widely circulated yet unsourced news report,...

Backgrounders: The UAE- UNRWA connection

Backgrounders: The UAE- UNRWA connection: https://israelbehindthenews.com/?s=uae+unrwa

Anti-Semitism in UNRWA Education

Introduction The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for the refugees of the 1948 war (UNRWA) provides educational services to school children registered as refugees in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, the West Bank (including East Jerusalem)...

The Event That Sparked the Movement to Free Soviet Jewry

It is a date rarely marked, even as it inspired a movement hardly studied, led by heroes barely known. Fifty years ago, on Dec. 15, 1970, the first Leningrad Trial opened. In it, a...

Breaking the Silence’s Report on Roads in the Territories Is Misleading and Blatantly Partisan

The Israeli organization "Breaking the Silence" (BtS) published a study in December 2020 highly critical of Israel's transportation infrastructure projects in the West Bank. However, the study ignores the relevant provisions in the...