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Will UN officials will be investigated for spreading misleading information about humanitarian situation of...

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June 22, 2018 ATTN: ​ UN Secretary General António Guterres ​ Greetings from Jerusalem. UNRWA, which retains Marathon Strategies, a high power New York PR firm, selected the date of June 20, 2018, WORLD REFUGEE DAY, to publicize...

Why we needed Charles Krauthammer

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Charles Krauthammer would have been an inspirational figure even if he hadn’t become a writer and television commentator. The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist who died on June 21 at the age of 68 was laid...

Mystery Grows Over Why a Study Of Palestinian School Books Is Being Kept Secret...

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Why does the State Department block the publication of the congressional investigation of Palestinian texts taught in schools run by the United Nations? That is the question two years after the chairman of the...
Sheffi Paz with other South Tel Aviv residents holding placards during a protest march against African asylum seekers in South Tel Aviv, on June 2, 2018. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90

The migrant situation in South Tel Aviv: ‘A battle over sovereignty and identity’

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Sheffi Paz, the leader of the struggle to evict illegal immigrants from her south Tel Aviv neighborhood, has become a nationally recognized figure in Israel. She herself is not sure when or how it...
Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room at the Palace of Nations in Geneva, the meeting room of the United Nations Human Rights Council. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Ludovic Courtès.

An end to the UN’s human-rights farce

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U.S. President Donald Trump has been on the receiving end of a lot of criticism for his willingness to flout tradition and engage in needless fights with friends while at the same time ingratiating...
Activists with the group IfNotNow. Credit: Facebook.

Swimming against the tide? The battle for Camp Ramah

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How does a liberal Jewish institution stay faithful to its mission without declaring war on those who would subvert its purpose? That’s the challenge that Camp Ramah—the Conservative movement of Judaism’s summer camping arm—is facing...
Former energy minister Gonen Segev seen at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem for the appeal on his prison sentence on Aug. 18, 2006. Photo by Flash90.

The highest-ranking spy in Israel’s history

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It is difficult to find better words than “treason” and “espionage” to describe the offenses attributed to former minister Gonen Segev. This man, who was a government minister, a senior partner in the decision-making process, gave information...
Children with their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. YouTube.

Right and wrong, children and immigration

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As a general rule, injecting emotion into policy debates is a mistake. Cold, rational logic remains the best path to understanding an issue, and anything that undermines that process is usually bound to distort...

China’s Hegemony in Africa Benefits Russia and Iran

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At first glance, China's neo-colonialist economic expansionism throughout Africa is just another aspect of China's self serving policies, which, coupled with frequent inability to finish what was started does more harm than good, but...
Photo by Axel Schwenke, via Flickr

Unexplored Connections: The Crimes of Saddam Hussein and Israeli-Palestinian Relations

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Nullum crimen sine poena,  "No crime without a punishment." - Nuremberg Tribunal, Final Judgment, 1946 Whether formally codified or merely personal, memory must always lie at the heart of justice. Today, however, almost no one remembers...