Palestinian Authority

Introduction This research discusses the image of the city of Jerusalem as revealed in the Palestinian Authority's schoolbooks currently used in UNRWA's schools in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Seventy textbooks...

Letter to the World Bank concerning the following announcement of aid to the PA health sector: https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/world-bank-approves-us10-millionagrant-improve-efficiency-and-resilience-palestinian-health-sector-enar West Bank and Gaza Mary Koussa (972) 2-2366500 mkoussa@worldbank.org Washington Serene Jweied +1 (202) 473-8764 sjweied@worldbankgroup.org April 14, 2023 Dear  Ms. Koussa and Ms. Jweled Responding to the above...

A Word First We take a look at a man who’s been in the news nearly every hour in the Middle East -- Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Forget the heap of criticism coming from...

JNS Jerusalem Bureau Chief Alex Traiman sorts out the details of Israel's Judicial Reform Crisis. What are the reforms? Why are there protests? Why are there counter-protests? Will embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be...

There is no reason to impugn the integrity of vast majority those who demonstrate in Israel against judicial reforms of the High Court of Israel. At the same time, most people have no idea that...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) at Harvard University will host on March 30, 2023, Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, chair in Law, Institute of Criminology-Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University; and Chair in Global Law, Queen...

Arab attacks continued unabated this week against Jews on the roads of Israel. 145 attacks occurred this week alone, with bullets, stones and molotov cocktails. Since the US government granted more than a billion dollars...

To the outside observer, passions behind the riots which have swept the state of Israel may not be understood. After all, what is the big deal over cosmetic changes in the high court of...

Officials of the 1,000-strong UN human rights office often insist that their agency, which operates as the bureaucracy that supports the 47-nation UN Human Rights Council, not be conflated with political body and its...