East Jerusalem

Biden’s Visit Bodes Ill for Israel

Israel’s caretaker government is unequal to the strategic challenges posed by Team Obama’s policy of punishing friends and rewarding enemies

Congress Should Help End UN’s Latest Anti-Israel Waste of Funds

With the UN budget in crisis, it is even more irresponsible than usual to waste precious UN resources on the commission of inquiry or any other Israel bashing exercise.

Investors Should Demand Transparency From ESG Research Firms

End-of-year data show that in 2021, investment surged in stocks rated positively by financial research firms on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria, which include an ever-growing list of...

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: November

United Nations Human Rights Council

Hold Hamas Accountable for Human-Shields Use During the May 2021 Gaza War

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: Late May

Why Israel erupted

Distorted narratives about Arab evictions have become a proxy for the entire conflict

The Return of Palestinian Politics

Elections in May will be the first since 2006—a remarkable but risky gambit.

COVID-19: Israel and the Palestinians

Though Israel was one of the first countries to impose aggressive measures to counter the COVID-19 crisis, lifting restrictions prematurely has sent the country into a second wave of infection. Meanwhile,...

Is Psagot Drinking Alone? Application of the CJEU Psagot Judgement To Other Territories The EU Considers Under Occupation

In the second half of the twentieth century and the early twentyfirst century, a new phenomenon emerged in the international system: territorial conflicts that do not find closure. The establishment of...

Amazon Pays a Fine for Crimea Business, but Occupied-Territories Policy Remains Murky

Amazon.com, Inc., settled with the U.S. Department of the Treasury earlier this month for violating U.S. sanctions by delivering products to Crimea, a region of Ukraine under Russian occupation, and several...

COVID-19 in Israel and the Palestinian Territories

Israel’s COVID-19 outbreak has profoundly impacted the country’s domestic political and economic situation. Israel’s relationship with the Palestinian Authority (PA) is better than expected, but a...

The UN’s Selective Outrage on Occupied Territories

Yesterday during remarks at the AIPAC annual conference, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo referred to the recent publication by the UN Human Rights Office of a database of companies that operate in the...

The UN Blacklist, U.S. Laws, and U.S. Policy

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights published on Wednesday a “database” of companies doing business with Israeli settlements. The list includes 112 firms, 94 of them Israeli and the other 18 from...

Rock, Paper, Scissors in the Middle East

Trump’s is the latest play in a decadeslong game of trying to counter previous ‘peace process’ moves by each new American administration

Occupied Elsewhere

Selective Policies on Occupations, Protracted Conflicts, and Territorial Disputes

Welcome to the End of the Process

Speaking to reporters in August, President Trump said he would likely wait until after the Israeli elections in September to unveil his peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians. Although this plan has...

West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Golan Heights Are Seoul Targets of Exclusion

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin visited South Korea (ROK) earlier this week as the two U.S. allies...

The U.N. Gives Palestinian Terrorists a Free Pass

The General Assembly expresses solidarity with the Palestinians by endorsing violence against Israeli civilians.