What has happened to the secular and democratic left? It would be an exaggeration to say that everywhere it is in retreat, but it is assailed by a resurgent religiosity allowed an increasingly free ...

The premise of Jews Don’t Count is that antisemitism is too often glossed over – blanked out – by just those progressives who would usually rush to support any beleaguered minority group. The book ...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei & Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Photo by https://khamenei.ir/, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence accessible at https ...

Israel's Foreign Minister Abba Eban, Lord Caradon (UK) and Arthur J. Goldberg (US), attending the UN Security Council meeting on 7 June 1967. UN photo by Teddy Chen.

Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials, the new book by Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson, enters the world at a time when, in the aftermath of 7 October and the war in ...

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 ...

The Israeli historian Tom Segev’s books One Palestine Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate (2000) and A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion (2018) have attracted critical ...

Jeffrey Herf, author of the award winning book ‘Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust’, and Professor of History at the University of Maryland, examines the historical ...

Jean Améry is best known as the author of At the Mind’s Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities. Less well known are Améry’s writings from the 1960s and 1970s in which he ...

British soldiers deporting illegal immigrants from the Hagana ship anchored in Haifa Port, 16 November 1947. Photo by Pinn Hans, GPO.

Hundreds of academics have signed an open letter to George Washington University expressing their deep concern about its failure to deal appropriately with a formal complaint against Dr. Lara Sheehi, ...

Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Policy and the Department of Communications at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dr. Gadi Taub is an Israeli historian, novelist, screenwriter, political ...