General Assembly resolutions do not create legal obligations for Member States. Introduction On Monday, the President of...
Middle East
The absence of Palestinians and their advocates from media isn’t just unfair – it’s harmful. By Sarah...
Legality affects public support for the use of force in countries – not so here. Introduction During...
Erdogan’s recent troubles with the U.S. prevent Turkey from playing a potentially constructive role in the Israel-Hamas...
He erroneously included the Palestinian territories as part of Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu angered Palestinians...
How 30 years of U.S. policy ended in disaster. As Israelis and Palestinians mourn the dead and...
The war between Israel and Hamas threatens to turn the already dire humanitarian situation in Gaza into...
There is a real risk that a conflict in the Middle East diverts Western attention. For over...
The oldest fossils of anatomically modern humans found outside Africa are from northern Israel 120,000 years ago....
“The laws of war must be upheld.” The United Nations’ emergency relief coordinator warned Tuesday that devastating...
Settlement in the region of Gaza dates back to 3300–3000 BCE. Introduction The known history of Gaza spans 4,000...
The family name of the Hasmonean dynasty originates with the ancestor of the house, whom Josephus Flavius....
The Palestinian fighters who launched deadly attacks into Israel are doing the work Iran wants done. Introduction...
Netanyahu has pressed ahead with a contentious plan to reshape the country’s judiciary. By Tia Goldenberg They...
High Court Justice Yitzhak Amit: “Democracy dies in small steps.” Religious Zionist MK Simcha Rothman’s legal representative...
Israel has steadily usurped more and more of the West Bank over the decades. A former U.S....
The act of collective punishment by Israeli settlers draws outrage from human rights organizations. Israeli settlers tore...
These attacks are seen by human rights groups as inherent in Israeli policies and actions. The leading...
Around 100,000 Israelis took to the streets to protest the judicial overhaul, chanting, “No to dictatorship!” Massive...
“Israel’s duties as an occupying power require it to facilitate foreigners’ entry to the West Bank.” A...
Photographs show how Afghanistan was an object of British scientific inquiry. Introduction In Afghanistan, a country whose...
A claim about how persecuted Jews IN Soviet Union decades ago relates to how Palestinians might be...
People don’t know if “the evidence presented against them is real or not”. A human rights attorney...
It represents “a continuation of the Zionist occupation’s aggression”. Palestinians reacted with fury on Tuesday after far-right...
“Illegal settlement poses a corrosive threat to Israeli society as a whole.” Global concerns about the new...
The spices eventually became more or less routine commodities open to many international entrepreneurs. Introduction Pepper has long...
As the 16th century ended, the Indian Ocean trade network was no longer a mystery. Introduction As...
The Israeli drive to assert supreme Israeli sovereignty over Palestine and Palestinians. Another Ramadan, another attack on Palestinian...
Damascus Gate is a center of Palestinian cultural life, but Israeli forces regularly attack Palestinians in the...
The term ‘zealot’ is from the Hebrew kanai/kana’im (those who are “zealous on behalf of God”). Introduction...