Israel’s occupation and oppression of Palestinians is either ignored or perceived as required to achieve the end...
Middle East
“If Gaza had a normal flow of trade and investment, the region would have a much stronger...
“Free Gaza Chicago River Flotilla,” three days of action calling for an end to Israeli attacks and...
Netanyahu has embraced authoritarian and racist heads of state and of political parties, including parties with deep...
Netanyahu’s idea of Israel is not a Jewish nation with equal rights for all, but as an...
A good first step would be for everyone to hold a vision of universal human values. By...
The land remains and still presents the international community with one of its most challenging conflicts. The entire...
By imbuing Gazans with mythical bravery, the left is failing the task of recognising Palestinian humanity. By...
The Westerners managed to maintain a political presence in the region until 1291 CE but were constantly...
Ireland alone can’t change Israeli policy. But Ireland is determined to lead. The United States hosted Irish...
For a long time, Baghdad was one of the wealthiest cities in the world. Today many people...
A region of dry grasslands and fertile river plains, the Middle East was the natural home to...
The longtime prime minister has reshaped Israel in profound ways. The military is stronger but Palestinian suffering...
The Sykes-Picot Agreement created the modern Middle East. It represents one of the first installments in a...
International corporations help bolster the authoritarian status quo that prevails in most of the Arab region. When...
Sumūd the nonviolent everyday practices or resistance by Palestinians to Israeli occupation. Introduction In Palestine, the practice...
Early Israelite religion may once have shared the Canaanite belief in El and other gods, before the...
The Levant stretches 400 miles north to south from the Taurus Mountains to the Sinai desert, and...
Arthur Balfour was a complex character, hard to read. His reasons for backing Zionism may have been...
Israel has already, and repeatedly, violated most conditions of what constitute an ‘Occupation’ from an international law...
These cases—the decision of a major company to respect international law and a mainstream commentator speaking out for...
A massive mural of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump engaged in a passionate...
Kleroterion. This device was used for the jury selection system in Athens. Bronze identification tickets were inserted...
A medieval baker with his apprentice (scanned from The Medieval Cookbook by Maggie Black). As both business...
Today, we tend to think that birth alone confers citizenship. Not so in medieval England. By Dr....
By the 3rd millennium BCE, the southern Levant was a land of small, fortified towns and villages,...
A meeting between U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and King Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia on board the...
Israeli police patrol the Gaza coast (Photo: Edo Medicks / Flickr) Don’t wait for the next massacre...
Nathan Birbaum,(1864 – 1937) Austrian writer, Jewish thinker and nationalist. Wikicommons/ Zionist Archive. Some rights reserved. These...
“In 1948, the Nakba (catastrophe in Arabic) saw the state of Israel established, 750,000 Palestinians forced into...