Will the Israel Civil Rights community abandon Palestinian Arab civil liberties?

Oct. 23, 2018 Will the Israel Civil Rights Community Abandon the Cause of Palestinian Arab civil liberties? Urgent press query to ACRI, The Association of Civil Rights in Israel ATTN: Shay@acri.org.il, mail@acri.org.il A new comprehensive HRW report documents...

Bethlehem after Oslo: Terror Spiked in Israel’s Absence

Bethlehem is only several hundred meters from southern Jerusalem. On December 21, 1995, Israel officially handed Bethlehem over to Palestinian rule. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin rejected the request of the city’s Christian mayor, Elias Freij,...

Two Authorities, One Way, Zero Dissent

In the 25 years since Palestinians gained a degree of self-rule over the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, their authorities have established machineries of repression to crush dissent, including through the use of...

Palestinians ‘Peoplehood’ Based on a Big Lie

Palestine is 'not a state' White House National Security Advisor John Bolton October 3, 2018 The Palestinians claim that they are an ancient and indigenous people fails to stand up to historic scrutiny. Most Palestinian Arabs were...

Is Canada Knowingly Funding Extremism and Terrorism — Including Through UNRWA?

Canadian taxpayer money may be finding its way to Hamas, a known and documented terrorist group. The Criminal Code of Canada forbids funding terrorism, as well as the facilitation of those funding terrorism. But last...

UNRWA Prolongs the Palestinian Refugee Problem

UNRWA (a UN-controlled organization) has kept Palestinians in refugee camps for almost 70 years. 99 percent of UNRWA employees are, themselves, Palestinian refugees, holding on to the hope that the current situation will not...

Chelm is alive and well…writes Michael Kuttner

Chelm was a mythical Yiddish-speaking town which had a disproportionate share of shlemiels and shlemazels whose mind-boggling stupidity provided an endless source of merriment and mirth. Interestingly, the characters and behavioural traits portrayed have seemingly...

Memo from the UN: Message of missiles fired from an UNRWA facility

On Wednesday, October 17th, The Center for Near East Policy Research provided a briefing at the UN Correspondents Association at the UN, followed by a confidential briefing for the officials of the UN Secretary...