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Bernard Avishai on his experience co-teaching the course “The Politics of Israel and Palestine” with Ezzedine Fishere, at Dartmouth College.

Today, Gaza is the aching limb of the Ummah, and the entire Muslim world is angry, anxious and feeling pain for the suffering in Palestine.

Mike Freer will stand down as MP for Finchley and Golders Green at the next election. He says the strain on his husband and wider family is too great. For years, he has had social-media abuse, death threats, hostile graffiti, mock-Molotov cocktails left as his door, an attempt to prise open the windows of his constituency office and a rude note stuck to the windscreen of his car – some of which proved that hostile people knew his whereabouts.

Wounded twice, first at Gallipoli and later on the Western Front, the man who is perhaps our most overlooked Prime Minister confided the thought he had been spared for a reason. That purpose, as Paul Hasluck noted upon his death in 1967, was to serve Australia. In that cause, at home and abroad, he admirably succeeded

While marching on a street in the United Kingdom, the protester says that she believes "the Balfour declaration was wrong."

In 1917, a controversial pledge was made. With just 67 words, the British promised to support the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine. Could this declaration have sparked the conflict?

In Linda Grant’s ‘When I Lived in Modern Times’, glimpses of the origins of the seemingly intractable

Delving into the relentless efforts of Palestine Action in targeting Elbit Systems, the Israeli arms company.

From the SS Einsatzgruppen to Hamas.The post 100 days after Oct. 7, Part 2: Inconvenient history appeared first on JNS.org.

This conflict finds its roots in history that spans over a century when the Zionist movement, advocating for the establishment of a Jewish homeland, gained momentum The past 114 day-long Israel-Palestine war has an immediate as well as a long historical context: the immediate context of the war is