Israel Palestine

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.

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

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

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


Israel-US interests should not be influenced by Palestinian demands - editorial

Mahmoud Abbas is concerned that the Palestinian issue could be sidelined as attention is fixed on a new Middle East security alliance.

Then US Vice-President Joe Biden meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah March 9, 2016.

US demands accountability in Abu Akleh killing, no criminal probe held

US State Department spokesman Ned Price stopped short of holding Israel directly responsible for the Palestinian-American journalist's death.

 A portrait of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed during an Israeli raid, is displayed during a special mass in her memory in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in the West Bank, May 16, 2022.

Israeli forces likely killed Al Jazeera journalist - UN rights office

Israeli and Palestinian officials have exchanged recriminations over the incident, which has heightened tensions.

 picture of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed by Israeli army gunfire during an Israeli raid, according to the Qatar-based news channel, is displayed in Al-Jazeera headquarter building in Doha, Qatar, May 11, 2022.

Terrorist attacks unsurprising given Palestinian suffering - EU envoy

“What do you think a child who sees the houses of their parents, their brothers and sisters demolished?"

 Palestinians burn a representation of an Israeli flag during a protest over tensions in Jerusalem's al-Aqsa Mosque, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Jerusalem Day, on May 29, 2022.

The Nakba, the flag and responsibility - opinion

I have experienced first-hand the rage of the Israel Police to the site of the Palestinian flag at demonstrations in which I have participated in Sheikh Jarrah.

PROTESTERS HOLD a giant Palestinian flag in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip.

Has Temple Mount caused a new rift in Jordan-Israeli ties? - analysis

Islamic violence has become the Temple Mount status quo. This is the “status quo” that Western leaders wish to preserve?

 PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG shakes hands with Jordan’s King Abdullah II during his visit to Amman on Wednesday.

Nides: Israeli settlement growth infuriates me, calls it 'stupid things'

It is impossible to avert "every single house" built in the West Bank, US ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides explains to Peace Now.

 US Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides on December 2, 2021

The disingenuous attempt to link Ukraine with Palestinians - analysis

The Ukraine crisis and the Palestinian cause are not remotely the same – and attempts to link the two are disingenuous.

 People rallying in Washington, D.C. in support of Ukraine, February 27, 2022.

UN appoints arbitration committee to probe Israeli apartheid

The UN has appointed an arbitration committee to probe Palestinian Authority charges that Israel committed acts of apartheid.

Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas arrives to delivers a speech during the United Nations Human Rights Council on February 27, 2017 in Geneva

Israel not apartheid state, but must uphold int'l law, UK says

An Amnesty International report laid out a long list of its allegations of Israeli human rights abuses, including inequitable access to land, housing and citizenship. 

Israel Apartheid Week at Columbia University.