How 30 years of U.S. policy ended in disaster. As Israelis and Palestinians mourn the dead and...
Middle East
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...
An outcome of the 1948 war was that it brought significant change to archaeological research within Palestine....
Judea came under Roman control in 63 BCE but was governed by client kings dependent on Roman...
This newfound western zeal for adherence to international law is particularly irksome. Introduction Amid the apocalyptic horror of Russia’s...
The Absentee Property Law of 1950 allowed the state to seize the property of Palestinian refugees. Few...
“I did not know that I lived behind an invisible wall. I did not know how much...