Early October 2016, Misbah Abu Sbeih left his wife and five children at home and then drove to an Israeli security station in occupied Palestinian East Jerusalem.The 39-year-old Jerusalemite was scheduled to hand himself over to serve a term of four months in jail for, allegedly,

Two officers sought me from within a crowd at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. They seemed to know who I was. They asked me to follow them, and I obliged.

No matter how hard White House officials try, they cannot construct a coherent “Trump doctrine” that would make sense amid the chaos that has afflicted US foreign policy in recent months.However, this chaos is not entirely the making of President Donald Trump.Since 1945, the Unit

The United States ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, seems to be championing a single cause: Israel.When Haley speaks about Israel, her language is not merely emotive or tailored to fit the need of a specific occasion; rather, her words are resolute, consistent and ma

The typical newsroom setup, where journalists chase after news headlines dictated by some centralised news gathering agency — often based in some Western capital — does not suffice anymore.In the case of much of the Middle East, the news narrative has been defined by others and d

There is a saying that goes: “Be careful what you wish for, for you may get it.”This has been Israel’s dilemma from the very beginning.The Zionist movement, which held its first conference in Basel, Switzerland, 120 years ago, wanted Palestine, but not the Palestinians.

As if he had, overnight, been transformed into a master politician, US President Donald Trump’s 27-hour trip to Israel left many analysts mystified.Quoting former Israeli political adviser Mitchell Barack, The New York Times referred to Trump as the “Liberace of world leader

Bat-Hen Epstein Elias’s long article on Iranian Jews is interesting. Parts of it, in fact, are heart warming.

The Israeli Knesset (parliament) has hurriedly passed a new bill that defines Israel as the “national home of the Jewish people”.Although the association between Jewishness and Israel goes back to the foundation of the state, the new law also carries clear discriminatory elements