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 Two key employees at HRW quit over the indefinite delay in releasing the report. The incident highlights the importance of bring the conversation about the Palestinian right of return to the forefront. Read more at Cutting Through Continue Reading
Advertisements For a very long time, the United States worked diligently to stay away from the tense debate over Israel’s ability to be both a Jewish and democratic state. Even as Palestinians cried out about their lack of freedom and basic rights and their lives proved that a state havingContinue 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 Published today at Responsible Statecraft is my review of Prof Jerome Slater’s new book, Mythologies Without End: The U.S., Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020. Slater goes through a huge list of myths that make up so much of the mass understanding of the conflict over Palestine and Israel. JustContinue Reading
