By Benjamin Schuman-Stoler
Israel refused to allow senior UN rights official and Special Rapporteur in the Palestinian territories Richard Falk into the country earlier today, sending...
by Jeremy Gillick
Much of the West Bank is in turmoil following this morning's highly anticipated evacuation of the Orwellian "House of Peace" in Hebron. Though...
By Benjamin Schuman-Stoler
Not sure how we missed this, but we recently saw some pics of the new Tel-Aviv port, designed by Israeli firm Mayslits Kassif...
By Jeremy Gillick
There is an interesting drama developing around one of the West Bank’s most radical and controversial Jewish settlements. Home to the Ma’arat HaMachpelah—the...
By Benjamin Schuman-Stoler
Nir Barkat, the newly elected mayor of Jerusalem, gave the UJC a tender statement on what could be seen as the very essence...
By Benjamin Schuman-Stoler
The New York Times runs a piece today on settlers who don't believe in the settlements. Yes, that's right:
While the vast majority of...
By Benjamin Schuman-Stoler
Not really. But check out the above screenshots of Obama and Netanyahu's respective websites. See?!! Ynet caught it as well, and asked some...
By Benjamin Schuman-Stoler
We had a preview of Jerusalem's mayoral election earlier this week. Now we can declare software entrepreneur Nir Barkat the winner.
Barkat embodies a...
In a haze of post-Obamania deflation this week, I turned for a political fix to Jerusalem and the hotly contested mayoral election taking place tomorrow....
Don't you just love it when a sporting event is used to boil down the immense complexities of geopolitical circumstance to a few simplistic characteristics?...
In yet another intriguing occurrence in the Iranian-Israeli relations saga, a 16 year-old Iranian boy with a particularly vicious brain tumor has been flown to...