Palestine

Most educational systems glorify the national narrative and suppress or marginalize the failures and crimes of the nation, said Richard Falk, of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights …

Shir Hever: Israel wants negotiations with the Palestinians to continue for the same reason it recruits students to serve as propaganda agents, it tries to restore its tainted image.

With the recent announcement by the Netanyahu government that it intends to build 1,200 more settlement homes on disputed land in the West Bank u2013 even in the face …

The Prawer Plan is an Israeli plan that would resettle up to 70,000 Palestinians into government-regulated cities.

President Obama and his congressional colleagues are carrying on an established, yet clearly dangerous, tradition of U.S. foreign policy — the mixing up of national interest and the parochial …

There must be a push to divest “from companies that profit from violent, oppressive, and discriminatory practices.”

Until negotiations are based not on U.S. support for Israeli power but on international law, the u201cpeace processu201d will continue to fail.

As peace talks between Israel and Palestine commence, we must break past the pro/con dichotomy to truly engage with the problem both socially and politically.

With a political process that consistently demands peace without justice, Palestinian children living in the occupied territories have been denied justice at almost every turn.

A unique combination of pressures pushed the two leaderships to agree to a resumption of negotiations, but the prospects of the talks remains grim.