Tag: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
‘Roots’ seeks to make flashpoints of peace in Samaria
In recent weeks, the hills of Samaria have been headline-making flashpoints in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
On Jan. 24, local residents stoned Palestinian cars and businesses, injuring three, in the roadside town of Huwara, awakening outrage...
House Speaker Pelosi at Knesset: ‘We are together in fight against terror posed by...
“We are together in the fight against terror posed by Iran and its nuclear development,” Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday at the Knesset.
Iran “is a threat to...
Rep. Jake Auchincloss: Democrats are ‘big tent party’ that in its totality is pro-Israel
Pro-Israel organizations have recently been confronting the growing number of candidates for office with decidedly anti-Israel positions, in a very few cases, successfully defeating stalwart pro-Israel incumbent Democrats in primaries.
While the growth of anti-Israel...
Moving backwards
U.S. Ambassador Thomas Nides spoke before the conference of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Israel this week. He was charming and reassuring, and stressed the bipartisan nature of American government support...
Congress members call for defunding of UN Commission of Inquiry into Israel
A bipartisan group of legislators in the House of Representatives is calling for the United States to defund the U.N. Committee of Inquiry (COI) on Israel.
Led by Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) and Vicky Hartzler...
Report: Palestinians entering Israel illegally to visit tourist sites
Palestinian tourist companies in Ramallah are taking advantage of a gap in the border fence to organize hundreds of tours to Israel for Palestinians.
What began as visits to Israeli beaches has expanded into tours...
A child’s simple faith
On Dec. 8, a 14-year-old Palestinian girl stabbed a 26-year-old Jewish woman who was pushing a stroller and walking her children to school. Can critical theory and institutional racism help you understand this? Can...
Peace-processing like its 1993
In a meeting in May with then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Joe Biden’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken outlined the Biden administration priority “to continue to rebuild our relationship with the Palestinian people and the...
Hamas widows, orphans and ties to the Israeli coalition
Given the fact that the Arab-Israeli Ra’am Party is openly Islamist and associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, the revelation on Friday evening by Channel 13’s Ayala Hasson that it’s been funneling money into Gaza to finance Hamas...
BDS groups, activists likely behind campaign targeting Google, Amazon to cancel contract with Israel
Anti-Israel BDS groups and activists appear to be behind a purportedly grassroots anonymous letter of hundreds of Google and Amazon employees demanding that the tech giants cancel Project Nimbus, a billion-dollar contract to provide public cloud...