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How a Jew and an Arab made a comedy about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

A bold new Jewish-Arab comedy, “Bella,” uses humor to explore shared pain.

|ByHANNAH BROWN
A scene from ‘Bella.’
A dog walks next to a plaque on a stone that reads 'Herzog Park' commemorating Chaim Herzog, Israel's sixth president, who was born in Belfast, as Dublin City Council has prepared a motion to rename 'Herzog Park' to 'Hind Rajab Park' after Hind Rajab from Gaza, in Dublin, Ireland, November 30, 2025.

Herzog Park name change means more than policy, its an attack against Jewish identity - analysis

The saga over the park in Dublin is not a trivial matter. It is about the right of Jews to be fully themselves in the societies they helped build.

|ByHERB KEINON
UNRWA COMMISSIONER-GENERAL Philippe Lazzarini speaks in Cairo in September. He had claimed that UNRWA didn’t know what was ‘under its headquarters,’ and fired a handful of terrorists, but it wasn’t just a few bad apples, says the writer.

Why deradicalizing Gaza’s youth will be the hardest battle - opinion

“All Jews are sh**...” “I want to be ‘shaheed’ [martyr] next week,” and “Hitler is the best,” reads an exercise book found by the IDF in Gaza during the war.

|ByIAN LLOYD NEUBAUER
Displaced Palestinians carry food parcels and supplies from aid trucks near the Zikim border crossing between Israel and Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, August 18, 2025.

UN Gaza resolution draft mentions Palestinian state for first time

Notably, this is the same language as is used in the US-backed Gaza plan. However, this is the first time a Palestinian state was mentioned in the main body of the resolution and not in the annex. 

|ByAMICHAI STEIN, REUTERS

Blinken: Gaza hostage deal on the brink - we await final word from Hamas

Blinken said the State Department assesses that Hamas has recruited almost as many new terrorists as it lost, a recipe for "perpetual war."

JANUARY 14, 2025ByHANNAH SARISOHN
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, December 5, 2024 (illustration).

Palestine Action claims to abduct sculpture of Israeli president from University of Manchester

"Weizmann secured the Balfour Declaration, a British pledge written 107 years ago, which began the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by signing the land away," the group claimed.

NOVEMBER 2, 2024ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Palestine Action claimed on Saturday that members of the pro-Palestinian group abducted a statue of former Israeli President Chaim Weizmann from the University of Manchester.

Why the son of the Hamas co-founder stands firmly with Israel - editorial

Yousef’s message is a clarion call for clarity and action. As he rightly pointed out, ignoring these threats only postpones an inevitable confrontation. 

JUNE 7, 2024ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Museb Hassan Yousef, also known as the Green Prince, seen at the Jerusalem Post Annual Conference in New York on June 3, 2024

America’s undue influence on the Middle East must change - analysis

The Vice-Chairman of the PLO Committee for Interaction with the Israeli Society and former spokesperson for the PA’s Ministry of Interior and Internal Security gives his opinion on the role of the US

APRIL 22, 2024ByELIAS ZANANIRI/THE MEDIA LINE
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden meets PA head Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem, last year. Halt all meetings between US representatives and PA officials, the writer demands.

Singapore made Israeli embassy remove ‘inappropriate’ Palestine social media post

The post reportedly commented on the lack of mention of "Palestine" in the Koran.

MARCH 27, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
An Iranian cleric reads the Koran in the shrine of Abdol-Azim, during the holy month of Ramadan in Tehran, Iran, March 25, 2024

A ‘Tiny House’ at Berlin’s film festival offered a safe space to talk about the Israel-Hamas war

The project is an extension of an educational initiative started by Hoffmann with German-Palestinian Jouanna Hassoun to discuss issues related to the Mideast conflict.

FEBRUARY 22, 2024ByTOBY AXELROD/JTA
Ahmad Dakhnous, left, and Shai Hoffman together brokered small-group conversations about the Israel-Hamas war outside the Berlinale film festival in Berlin, Feb. 18, 2024

Economic interdependence complicates Israeli-Palestinian separation, say experts

Despite political conflicts, Israelis and Palestinians remain economically intertwined, posing challenges to full separation.

FEBRUARY 22, 2024ByKEREN SETTON/THE MEDIA LINE
Activists, including Israelis and Palestinians, take part in a demonstration in support of peace near Jericho

Israeli rock climbing team banned from international competition amid security concerns

The NKBV ban is not the first time an Israeli athletics team has been barred from international competition due to Israel’s current political situation since October 7th.

JANUARY 24, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Rock climbing [illustrative] 370

Now is the time to recognize Palestinian statehood - opinion

This madness must stop, and nothing will stop it unless Israel and the Palestinians agree on a two-state solution.

JANUARY 23, 2024ByALON BEN-MEIR
BILL CLINTON, Yitzhak Rabin, and Yasser Arafat, after the signing of the Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles at the White House in 1993: What’s troubling is the resignation that any renewed peace negotiation will be futile because everything that’s been tried before didn’t work, the writer laments

In call with Netanyahu, Biden pledges support for 2 state solution - White House

This US will continue taking action to defend itself from the Houthis, White House National Security Spokesman John Kirby said Friday. 

JANUARY 19, 2024ByHANNAH SARISOHN
'ON THE Left,' there are people who want to see Biden crack down harder on Israel. That's why people on the Right are calling for Israel to stop relying on the US. Both sides are playing a dangerous game,' says the writer.