Tag: Cities

China in the Middle East

From S.R. Israel's academic cooperation with China has become the focus of U.S. attention. Washington is convinced that Beijing has used such cooperation to buy or steal Israeli technology. So far, Israel has not instituted...

Revealing Maps: The Palestinian Vision as Taught in UNRWA Schools

The present research deals with some 115 maps of the country appearing in the latest edition of schoolbooks issued by the Palestinian Authority in 2020 (few books were issued earlier and have not been...

Daniel Sokatch’s can we talk about Israel?

Daniel Sokatch, CEO of the New Israel Fund and founding Executive Director of Bend the Arc (formally, the Progressive Jewish Alliance) has written a book entitled Can We Talk About Israel? A Guide for...

Approaching the Holocaust as a Moral Choice: Part VII: Providing Legitimacy for Murdering Civilians

Providing Legitimacy for Murdering Civilians When the German officers who fired on innocent women, children and the elderly were lawyers, their academic status is certain to have influenced the soldiers under their command. A comparable...

Will UNRWA Continue to Confine Descendants of Arab refugees from 1948 to...

Zoom briefing: Monday August 29 11am PST 2pm  EST 7pm  London 8pm  Stockholm 9pm  Tel Aviv   Update with Journalist David Bedein:  Topic: Will UNRWA  Continue to Confine Descendants of Arab refugees from 1948  to the indignity of 59 refugee camps? What can citizens of...

Interfaith peace dialogue is branded a ‘Zionist plot’ by anti-Israel group

A group that organises popular anti-Israel demonstrations has attacked interfaith dialogue, claiming it is a covert Zionist strategy to cover up Israeli “apartheid”, the JC has learned. The Palestinian Forum in Britain (PFB) — which...

The Israeli City of Haifa in Palestinian Authority Textbooks Taught in UNRWA Schools

The PA textbooks taught in UNRWA schools (grades 1-10) in Judea, Samaria, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip present the city of Haifa, which is located within Israel's pre-1967 territories, as a Palestinian city: A...

The Protestant Cutting Edge Of Demonization Of Israel And The Jewish People

Presbyterians and Episcopalians recently held their church-wide conventions, the kind that are convened only every few years to decide major policy issues. Both voted on resolutions highly critical of Israel. The Presbyterians – at...

When Deterrence Becomes Just a Word

Deterrence -- the act of deterring especially deterring a nuclear attack by the capacity or threat of retaliating. Since Israel's unilateral withdrawal in 2005, the Gaza Strip has turned into the leading military foe of...

Half of all Jews now live in Israel and that is a source of...

I was recently asked by Westminster Synagogue to speak on the future of Judaism. I told them that, as someone who has written about history, I find it difficult enough to find out what...