The 10-day ceasefire in Lebanon, which was due to expire on April 26, has been extended by three weeks until May 17. That is the good news. The bad news is that this tenuous truce has already crumbled. U.S. President Donald Trump was instrumental in prolonging the April 16 ceasefire during the second round of […]
Edward Dmytryk’s Crossfire is a distinctive, one-of-a-kind film. It was the first Hollywood B-movie to be nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award. And it was the first feature film to deal directly with the issue of antisemitism in the United States, edging out the more famous Gentleman’s Agreement by a few months. Premiered in […]
Under cover of Israel’s wars in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Iran since 2023, the Israeli government has consolidated its control of the West Bank immeasurably. Existing settlements have been expanded. New ones have been built. Unauthorized outposts have been legalized. Evacuated settlements have been reestablished. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition government, which assumed […]
There has never been an American president like Donald Trump regarding his relationship with Israel. No less a figure than Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel who has worked closely with Trump during his two presidential terms, has repeatedly hailed him as the most pro-Israel president in history. This is quite a claim, but […]
Free speech, a fundamental pillar of democracy, is under fire at American universities. Once a sanctuary of open inquiry, they have become embroiled in a broader cultural war over the boundaries of free expression, a process that is reshaping higher education in the United States in particular and in the West in general. Ric Esther […]
Israel’s protracted conflict with Lebanon may well be easing, judging by the most recent developments. On April 14, Israel and Lebanon conducted preparatory talks in Washington ahead of what may be more substantive negotiations in the near future. A day later, the Israeli security cabinet met to consider a short-term ceasefire in Lebanon to pause […]
Mashhad, situated in the northeast corner of Iran, is Iran’s second largest city after Tehran. A Muslim place of pilgrimage, with a population of 3.4 million, it attracts 25 million visitors a year. Despite its renown, Mashhad harbors an embarrassing secret, as the short film, Mashhad, points out. On March 26, 1839, a few days […]
On April 8, shortly after the United States and Iran accepted a Pakistani proposal to abide by a two-week ceasefire in the war in Iran, Israel carried out a massive wave of air strikes aimed at Hezbollah sites in Lebanon. These attacks, the deadliest in decades, complicated the peace talks between the United States and […]
High-level U.S.-Iran talks are due to begin in Islamabad on April 11, four days after the United States and the Iranian regime accepted a two-week ceasefire proposal brokered by Pakistan to pause the war in Iran. The fighting  erupted on February 28 after the United States and Israel launched joint air strikes in Iran. These […]
A pro-Palestinian organization in Germany is trying to smear Israel by means of a deceitful political campaign. Kufiyas in Buchenwald hopes to stage a rally in the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial on April 12 to mark the 81st anniversary of its liberation by U.S. troops on April 11, 1945. Kufiyas in Buchenwald conceived the idea […]