Advertisements A controversy at Human Rights Watch has illustrated again how foolish it is to ignore the issue of Palestinians’ right of return. It’s a difficult conversation, but Palestinians are not simply going to give up their rights and Israelis are more against this one than any other. Ignoring theContinue Reading
Advertisements The attack on UNRWA is, in a sense, a microcosm of the assault on Gaza. On October 7, Hamas launched a brutal attack on Israel. It was atrocious, it was illegal. It was also something many of us had been warning was going to happen for years, because it’sContinue Reading
Advertisements In the early morning hours of January 19, an Israeli military force came into the homes of the Salhiyeh family in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. They evicted the family, arresting some of them and leaving the rest of them to watch as, later in the day, bulldozers demolishedContinue Reading
Advertisements Five prominent Jewish, pro-Israel groups sent a letter earlier this week to House Democrats with a list of principles they hoped would guide the leadership in selecting a new chairperson for the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC). The current chair, Eliot Engel, lost his congressional seat to newcomer progressive,Continue Reading
Advertisements While it is conceivable that there could be a two-state solution that treated Palestinians and Israelis equally, the one the Oslo peace process envisioned didn’t come close to being that. Even though that vision is finally behind us, the approach of prioritizing Israeli needs–national, security, even political–over not onlyContinue Reading
