Staff / TruthdigJul 17, 2016
I am convinced that it is in the vital interest of Israel to make peace with the Palestinian people, and with the Arab world at large, before the dangerous infection of extreme ideology engulfs the entire region. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigJul 10, 2016
The Clinton loyalists debating the Democratic Party platform have defeated an amendment that would have called for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine and condemned Israeli squatter settlements as illegal. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigJun 14, 2016
Ron Huldai, mayor of Tel Aviv, reacted with enormous sadness to last week’s terrorist attack on the Sarona Market area of his city, committed by a teenager from the occupied Palestinian West Bank, killing four. But he then went on to put the attack in context. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
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Juan Cole / TruthdigJun 6, 2016
After New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order directing the state to monitor activists in the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement (BDS) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, critics called the order McCarthyism. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 4, 2016
Haaretz writer Gideon Levy outlines the most effective method to stopping Israel's occupation of Palestine; scientists may have found a battery that "lasts forever"; meanwhile, the anti-Semitism crisis in the U.K.'s Labour Party may have actually been manufactured by the Israel lobby. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Sandy Tolan / TruthdigApr 17, 2016
The traditional American fealty to Israel does not compute for the candidate's young supporters, who understand the lopsided brutality of the conflict and demand justice for the oppressed. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigApr 17, 2016
The Democratic presidential debate last week took an unusual turn when a grumpy old Jewish man, Bernie Sanders, upbraided a slightly younger Methodist woman, Hillary Clinton, for not respecting the dignity of the Palestinian people. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigApr 10, 2016
Bernie Sanders is being attacked for comments on the Middle East in his interview with the editorial board of the New York Daily News, but all he did was restate current U.S. government policy. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMar 30, 2016
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is a cult, and like most cults, its followers would probably object to the characterization. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigJan 31, 2016
Even the staunchly pro-Israel French Socialist Party has had it with Israeli expansionism and aggression. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigJan 24, 2016
At the Davos World Economic Forum, the Israeli leader insisted that the U.N.-Iran nuclear deal had made his country less secure and that it must therefore get tens of billions extra in military aid from the U.S. And that wasn't all. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Natasha Hakimi Zapata / TruthdigJan 14, 2016
The two American companies are making money from illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. And that's not all. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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