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Palestinian human-rights activist Bassem Eid filed a complaint in New York state recently against Ben & Jerry’s over the ice-cream maker’s decision to boycott Israeli territories. Eid filed the complaint last month with New York State’s Division of Human Rights against Conopco Inc., the U.S. division of Ben & Jerry’s parent company Unilever, reported the…

From the blog of Joshua Washington at The Times of Israel

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Bassem Eid, a political analyst, expert commentator on Palestinian and Arab issues and a pioneer of human rights among Palestinians was the ideal guest for the latest Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council webinar, discussing the violence between Israel and Hamas and within Israel. Eid, whose topic was “The Palestinian Case Against Hamas”, said friends in Gaza tell him they feel like they are hostages of Hamas and want Israel to get rid of it. He said he believes the international comm...

Most observers seem to ignore the fact that as a proxy force, the terror group presents unique challenges to deterrence.

Ari Alexenberg On May 11th, my wife, Julie, and I arrived in Israel for a quick visit to see my elderly parents. It had been over a year since we saw them last. We were also excited to see Talia, our daughter, who lives in Tel Aviv, as well as my siblings, aunts, uncles and cousins. Because of the pandemic, we needed to quarantine and decided to stay at Talia’s and her partner’s apartment until our release. That evening, sirens wailed. We were unsure what was going on. Talia, seasoned in d...

Egypts foreign minister Sameh Shoukry is due to meet his Israeli counterpart Gabi Ashkenazi on Sunday for talks, Egypts foreign... In response to the rocket barrage, Israel struck a total of 1,600 military targets, including 340 rocket launchers and destroyed more than 60 miles of underground terror tunnels in the Gaza Strip. The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry claims that about 250 Palestinians were killed during the hostilities. “At the moment it is still very difficult to assess the exact d...

Photo Credit: Wikimedia/Levi Clancy In a rare pro-Israel demonstration, a woman stands against Hamas, and in support of ordinary Palestinians, at a rally in front of the Federal Building on May 16, 2021 in Los Angeles, United States The latest Israel-Gaza war started with Hamas launching hundreds of rockets into Israeli cities. For the few people who might have lived in a cave in the last few hundred years, let me inform you of something: targeting civilians is a war crime. It was very clear f...

From the blog of Fred Maroun at The Times of Israel

The latest count of rockets and mortars fired into Israel from Gaza tops three thousand. They've targeted Israeli towns, villages, city centers, homesteads--anything--as long as it has life to take. Many of those same explosives (an estimated 15%) fail to reach Israeli soil. They fall to the ground in Gaza, killing Palestinian men, women, and children. Hamas wants to cause death and remain the victim. And the international response to their conflict is allowing them to do exactly that.