Israel’s prime minister is creating a climate of fear and crisis as his best hope for holding on to power

The head of a conservative Islamic party who has emerged as a kingmaker following Israel’s latest inconclusive election called for change Thursday, without endorsing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…

Professor Hugh Brady President and Vice-Chancellor University of Bristol Dear Professor Brady, We are all Jewish or of Jewish origin. We view with dismay the vicious personal, professional and political attacks directed against Professor David Miller at the University of Bristol for critical remarks he recently made about Zionism. Professor Miller was speaking at an event alongside notable anti-racism campaigners, many of them Jewish – including Norman Finkelstein and Ronnie Kasrils, a former minister in Nelson Mandela’s government. We are extremely disturbed by the calls from pro-Israel organisations demanding Professor Miller be...

A boutique blend of honey from Australia becomes sought after as an aphrodisiac in the Middle East.

The donations will go to nations like the Czech Republic and Honduras that pledged to move diplomats to Jerusalem. Critics say Israel has an obligation to inoculate Palestinians under its occupation.

Demolitions used as a ‘key means’ to ‘coerce Palestinians to leave their homes’

Just before sunrise in Istanbul on 11 November 2019, a determined thumping on her iron front door stirred Emma Winberg from a brief sleep. Blurry-eyed, she grasped at the empty space in bed next to her, pulled on a pair of trousers, fumbled with a bedside lamp, then ran across the bedsit to the kitchen next door. “James wasn’t there,” she said. “And that’s when I just knew.”

Maher al-Akhras began his hunger strike after he was arrested and placed into administrative detention in late July.

Russian oligarch’s firms donated £74m to Elad, who are accused of trying to seize Palestinian neighbourhoods

Haydar Ghorbani, an Iranian Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to death by Iran, had his appeal

Calls for sanctions are intensifying as the cabinet meets and Netanyahu awaits US approval

A sanctuary called the “Holy of Holies” offers “the earliest evidence for the use of cannabis in the Ancient Near East.” Who was the Kingdom of Judah’s pot dealer?

Saudi Arabia has introduced a series of measures to protect the two holy mosques of Mecca and Medina from the coronavirus. According to Saudi officials, the new rules include the closure of both mosques between the evening Isha prayers and morning Fajr prayers, and a ban on food entering the two complexes. Mount Safa and Mount Marwa inside the Great Mosque in Mecca will also be closed until a ban on Umrah pilgrimages is lifted. Zamzam water dispensaries within both mosques will also be closed off.

Baruch Ben-Yosef, who was born in the United States as Andy Green, and Keith “Israel” Fuchs were named suspects immediately after Alex Odeh’s 1988 killing.

Some crowd into trucks. Others go on foot. The current Syrian migration is similar in scale to the Rohingya crisis in 2017.

The UN human rights office released Wednesday a long-anticipated report which names companies with ties to Israeli West Bank settlements.

How could a U.S. citizen die in an Egyptian prison when top U.S. officials championed his cause?

The UN says a government advance on rebel-held Idlib has had

Government reportedly uses ToTok to track conversations, locations and other data of those who install the app

I was arrested and tortured into making false confessions after demanding democracy in Bahrain. This week, the Kingdom plans to sentence me to death while the world is celebrating Christmas.