Israel

It is an event “of cosmic proportions,” said one Palestinian academic, a fitting description regarding Stephen Hawking’s decision to boycott an Israeli academic conference slated for next June. It was also a decisive moral call, which was communicated on May 8 by Cambridge University, where Hawking is a professor.

Israel's choice to extend the emergency order denying the unification of citizens with spouses from enemy states strengthens the argument that Israel is a discriminatory apartheid state.

If the Palestinians focus on demanding 'one person, one vote', Israel won't have a leg to stand on. What can it say - that the Palestinians aren't human?

Palestinian citizens have many rights in Israel, but they are not equal citizens. Only by removing all discriminatory elements from the legal system will Israel cease to be a democracy of racial profiling.

The claim that Fayyad's resignation is a major blow to the peace process is not only untrue, it is ridiculous.

Samer Issawi has sustained his hunger strike for 8 months and counting. Israel is bored.

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Netanyahu talked about how Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany were turned away by countries around the world. Considering the Netanyahu government’s standards for processing asylum claims, would Jewish refugees have been accepted by today’s Israel?

The unbearable ease with which the IDF, police and Border Police arrest small children shows that Israel is blatantly flouting both UNICEF’s report and its own laws.

Tense coexistence turned into shared routine, one pool for two nations. Heaven forbid new refugees should arrive. Now the old refugees would surely come out with foaming rage against them.

Obama, like U.S. presidents before him, demands Palestinian surrender as a precondition for "peace," explains Sherry Wolf.