Aaron MacLean: How is Israel’s war against Hamas proceeding and how do battlefield and diplomatic developments there fit into the broader regional competition with Iran? The Israelis took out a senior ...

Albert Memmi, who died recently, was a Jew, an Arab, a Zionist, an anti-colonialist, a secularist, a socialist, a nationalist, and a universalist. Whitman’s expression ‘I contain multitudes’ might ...

New York University, photo by Benjamin Kraft via Flickr. Licence at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode ...

Behnam Ben Taleblu, a native Farsi speaker, is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defence of Democracies, where he focuses on Iranian security and political issues. He speaks here with BICOM ...

Widener Library, Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts. Photo by John Phelan, via Wikimedia. Licence available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 ...

Photo by Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Creative Commons licence.

Dave Rich of the Community Security Trust argues that while IS has the support of only small minorities amongst Muslim populations in the Middle East and Europe, it has a clear political genealogy ...

Ethiopian Jews pictured on board the Bat Galim ship on their journey to Israel in 1984. Photograph courtesy of Raffi Berg.

Gen. Sir Nick Carter (left) is greeted by IDF Chief of Staff Avi Kochavi in Israel, April 2019. Photo by: IDF Spokesperson Unit.

Palestinians enjoy the sea in Gaza City, on a hot summer day, on 8 September 2023. Photo by Atia Mohammed/Flash90 ...

Richard Landes is a historian of millennialism living in Jerusalem; his most recent book, Can “The Whole World” be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad. The prevailing paradigm ...

There is perhaps no aspect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that is subject to greater distortion than the so-called Palestinian ‘right of return’. The term refers to the demand, erroneously stated ...