UNRWA will not go away just because it loses US funds

The GAO, the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of the US Congress, is scheduled to issue a massive report on the indiscretions of UNRWA during the month of February. That report will create...

New book, “The Industry of Lies: Media, Academia, and the Israeli-Arab Conflict”, by Ben...

ISGAP is honored to publish Israeli journalist Ben Dror Yemini's important and timely new book, entitled The Industry of Lies: Media, Academia, and the Israeli-Arab Conflict. The book presents an in-depth analysis of the many...

“Golda Meir, on the Palestinians”

To be misquoted is an occupational hazard of political leadership; for this reason I should like to clarify my position in regard to the Palestinian issue. I have been charged with being rigidly insensitive...

What is the Israeli government’s true position on Trump’s UNRWA initiative?

While Netanyahu publicly endorses Trump’s position on withdrawing US funding for UNRWA, behind the scenes, the Israeli government is seeking that the US condition their assistance on ending the incitement in UNRWA schools rather...

Parents demand justice over son’s death in Israeli desert ‘death march’ 

Mark and Ellen Newman Please send this out to everyone you know, both your personal email contacts, and your social media outlets.  This needs to go viral so that the national media gets interested.  The Israeli...

Analysis: Cutting UNRWA aid will not cause a humanitarian crisis

Yochanan Visser is an independent journalist/analyst who worked for many years as Middle East correspondent for Western Journalism.com in Arizona and was a frequent publicist for the main Dutch paper De Volkskrant. He authored a book in...

In Israel, mixed reviews for US plan to cut UN funding for Palestinian ‘refugees’

There are conflicting reports coming out of Jerusalem relating to whether Israel favors or opposes proposed cuts in US donations to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA), which supports the Palestinians. Meanwhile,...

Givat Hamatos: A Strategic Jerusalem Neighborhood

Institute for Contemporary Affairs Founded jointly with the Wechsler Family Foundation Vol. 18, No. 1 A plan to build a Jewish residential neighborhood in Givat Hamatos (Airplane Hill) in southern Jerusalem was approved in 2014, but...

Anti-Israel bias reigns at Columbia

When Columbia University’s Center for Palestine Studies was established in 2010, Rashid Khalidi, its founding and current director — and a supporter of an academic boycott of Israel — stated that steering clear of...

Ready – Steady – Go!

The civil year 2018 is barely out of the starting blocks and we are already witnessing events which without a doubt will impact all of us no matter where we live…writes Michael Kuttner. Without warning...