Palestine

Israeli film Butcher's Stain receives an Oscar nomination in Best Live Action Short category

Butcher’s Stain has already won a Silver Medal in the Narrative category at the 2025 Student Academy Awards, an important achievement for a filmmaker at the beginning of his career.

Omar Sameer Mahamid stars in Meyer Levinson-Blount's Butcher's Stain, a short film that has received an Oscar nomination.
ISRAELI FAR-RIGHT TikToker Roy Star harasses left-wing activist, January 20, 2026.

Israeli far Right TikToker harasses, pepper sprays activists, invades West Bank home

Hamas terrorists in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip December 3, 2025.

US targets Hamas-linked charities, saying covert use of civilian groups endangers Palestinians

Ra'am party head MK Mansour Abbas leads a faction meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on November 24, 2025.

Only Jewish-Arab cooperation, peace with Palestinians will let Israel be a democracy - opinion


New Zealand foreign minister's home attacked by protester after refusing Palestine recognition

New Zealand Foreign Minister has come under increasing pressure after announcing the country would not recognize a Palestinian state.

New Zealand's Foreign Minister Winston Peters attends a press conference, following his meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in Beijing, China February 26, 2025

From belief to disillusionment: Leland Vittert tells Bari Weiss about abandoning two-state vision

Former Fox News Jerusalem correspondent Leland Vittert recalls the moment that changed his view of Israel and why he no longer believes a two-state solution is realistic.

Fox News’s former correspondent in Jerusalem, Leland Vittert, speaking on Bari Weiss's podcast, September 30, 2025.

Netanyahu the huckster: A failed UN speech serving to isolate Israel - opinion

Like an outdated pitchman, Netanyahu resorted to his usual tricks – charts, QR codes, quizzes, theatrical gestures – that no longer work.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the UN General Assembly on Friday. Like an outdated pitchman, he resorted to his usual tricks – charts, QR codes, quizzes, theatrical gestures – that no longer work, the writer argues.

Palestinian sovereignty and international law: Limits of UN recognition - opinion

Among other things, if current UN member states seek to establish the first Palestinian state, they will have to honor all listed expectations of the Montevideo (1933) and Vienna (1969) conventions.

RIYAD MANSOUR, the Palestinian permanent observer to the UN, speaks after the General Assembly voted to endorse a declaration on a two-state solution earlier this month. Israel has no legal obligation to carve a new enemy state, the writer states.

The West's lesson to Hamas: Terror pays - editorial

To UN delegates who say recognition is about “reviving hope,” the answer is simple: tie hope to behavior.

Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, addresses delegates at the United Nations General Assembly before a vote on the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution, at U.N. headquarters in New York City, US, September 12, 2025.

Houthis take credit for drone strike on Eilat, IDF reveals Hamas exploitation of Shifa Hospital

Syria, Israel near 'de-escalation' pact • World leaders discuss two-state solution, Gaza war at UN • Iran rebuilding missile capabilities

Photo taken after a Houthi drone crashed in Eilat on September 24, 2025.

Many Western nations offer to assist treating patients from Gaza in West Bank

Israel had previously rejected proposals to allow Gazans to receive medical care in the West Bank and East Jerusalem due to security concerns.

Armed Palestinians seen secure trucks loaded with Humanitarian Aid entering Gaza through the Israeli Kerem Shalom Crossing, in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, September 19, 2025.

Israel at War day 718: What's going on in Israel, Gaza, West Bank?

Trump to present Gaza peace deal • UN says Israel seeks permanent Gaza control • Turkey's Erdogan calls on other countries to recognize Palestinian

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

The premature Palestinian statehood will explode in our faces - opinion

The first bricks are still the same. One authority. One set of laws. One chain of command. If recognition is to be more than a headline, it must become pressure and support in the same paragraph.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer meet at 10 Downing Street, in London, Britain, September 8, 2025.

A Palestinian state needs Israel's agreement to exist. It's not a matter of recognition - editorial

Pushing for a two-state solution now is unmoored from reality, as Palestinians have shown no ability or willingness to run a peaceful entity alongside Israel.

Australia and Palestine.