Israel’s Druze Minority Furious Over 'Apartheid' Law
After the passage of the “nationality” law, Israel is no longer multicultural. It is a country where national sovereignty lies solely in the hands of its Jewish citizens.
Israeli Parliament Passes Controversial Jewish Nation Bill
The legislation defines the country as the nation-state of the Jewish people. Critics warn that it sidelines minorities.
Saudi Crown Prince’s ‘Recognition’ of Israel Is Nothing New
The Atlantic's editor in chief breathlessly reported that Mohammed bin Salman told him that both Jews and Palestinians have a right to their own state. There is nothing unprecedented about what the Saudi royal said.
Migrant Recounts Deportation From Israel
Yohannes Tesfagabr, a 29-year-old sous chef, tells how he accepted what Israeli authorities offered: $3,500 in cash and a one-way ticket to Uganda or Rwanda.
The Scandals Roiling Around Israel’s Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu fights for his political life as a dizzying array of charges of wrongdoing engulfs him, his family and his inner circle.
Juan Cole
Netanyahu Responds to Officers’ Fascism Charges by Making a Far-Right Politician Their Boss
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bolstered his majority and rid himself of a troublesome voice of conscience by replacing his minister of defense with extremist Avigdor Lieberman.
Juan Cole
Top Seven Reasons Israel Must Give Back the Occupied Golan to Syria (Videos)
The far-right-wing government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pulled the stunt of holding a Cabinet meeting in the Occupied Golan Heights -- a first -- on Sunday, and Netanyahu engaged in some grandstanding, declaring that his country will never relinquish this patch of Syria.
Juan Cole
Whom Does Jerusalem Belong To?
Far right Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commemorated Israel’s “Jerusalem Day” with a speech in which he said, “Jerusalem was always the capital of the Jewish people only, and no other,” and warned that Muslim terrorism menaced it.
Juan Cole
Top 5 Reasons Palestinian-Israelis Could Shape the Israeli Election (Video)
Israel, despite the attempts of current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cast it as a monochrome “Jewish state,” has a divided and complicated population.
Netanyahu Spent $24,000 in Israeli Taxpayer Funds on Takeout Food in 2011, Report Says
Seems like war's not the only thing Bibi likes to spend inordinate amounts of his citizens’ cash on.
