Israeli-Palestinian relations

TEMA Network presents report on Israeli society's attitudes towards Israeli-Palestinian conflict

TEMA Leadership Network, an Israeli grassroots organization, presented a year-long study on Israeli society's attitudes towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at their conference on Tuesday.

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An Israeli and a Palestinian flag hang on an installation set up by members of the Brazilian NGO Rio de Paz at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on October 4, 2025
ILLUSTRATIVE: A woman walks near the State of Palestine Pavilion at the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai, last in December 2023.

Israeli, Palestinian civil society meet in France as two-state solution dims

The meeting, attended by foreign ministers and senior officials from dozens of countries, marks one year since the UN-backed New York Declaration, which set out a roadmap toward Palestinian statehood

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ONE OF THE sailors of the Gaza aid flotillas intercepted by Israel is seen speaking in France, in May 2026.

The 'influencerization' of activism: How virality is replacing real-world organizing - opinion

Activism is now increasingly judged by whether it travels online, not by whether it changes institutions or improves lives. The algorithm does not reward effectiveness. It rewards emotional immediacy

|ByHALLEL SILVERMAN, ADAM SCOTT BELLOS
VIEW OF Independence Hall, the site of the signing of Israel’s Declaration of Independence. The document promises that democratic Israel would uphold full social and political equality of all its citizens, the writer says.

Why Israel cannot be secure or democratic without justice for all - opinion

A country that is inherently immoral because of the inequality of its citizens based on national-religious identity and rejects the aspiration of seeking maximal justice cannot survive forever.

|ByGERSHON BASKIN

Grapevine October 20, 2024: Hope and memory

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

OCTOBER 20, 2024ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Together with a scribe, President Isaac Herzog writes a letter in a new Torah scroll.

Addressing anti-Israel sentiment through educational reform - opinion

The threat from faculty and curriculum.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024ByYISRAEL MEDAD
A protest encampment is set up in support of Palestinians, at the University of California, Berkeley, in April. The problem with the eruption of the anti-Israel protests has been the involvement of many faculty members in reframing the notion of Palestine, the writer argues.

We must confront forces of destruction with all our power - opinion

In a reflection on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the writer delves into the numerous peace initiatives that have been proposed and consistently rejected by Arab and Palestinian leaders.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024ByMOHAMED SAAD KHIRALLA
PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shakes hands with Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin as US president Bill Clinton stands between them, after the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords at the White House on September 13, 1993.

The Gaza pier shows America's approach to the war is tone-deaf - opinion

Successful mediation of an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will require the US to construct a strategy around the values of the people involved, not their own.

JULY 14, 2024ByALIZA PILICHOWSKI
A TRUCK carries humanitarian aid across the floating pier constructed to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip, last month.

It’s time to reassess Europe’s role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - opinion

The EU needs a balanced, updated strategy that considers both sides. It must clearly oppose all forms of hatred and violence, especially from those calling for Israel’s destruction.

JULY 6, 2024ByURI HALPERIN
OUTGOING EUROPEAN UNION foreign policy chief Josep Borrell attends an EU meeting in Brussels, earlier this year. An unbalanced EU policy undermines its potential to positively influence the situation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, says the writer.

How can we shape the future of Israeli-Palestinian relations? - opinion

Following the harrowing events that unfolded on October 7, Israel needs to find a way to look forward in order to the future challenges the conflict will present.

JUNE 25, 2024ByYOHANAN TZOREFF
Yohanan Tzoreff: Israel has the opportunity to determine the what hte future of the conflict would look like.

'Jews aren't the devil you make us out to be' - opinion

Israel was founded on values adored by today’s progressives (anti-colonialism, socialism, collectivism, communion with the land) by the most peripatetic and outcast of people (the “wandering Jews”).

JUNE 16, 2024ByMICHAEL CORWIN
A PROTESTER accuses Israel of war crimes, outside the International Court of Justice, in The Hague, last month. To accuse Israelis of following in the footsteps of the Nazis demonstrates a total lack of understanding of the history of the Jewish people, the writer argues.

'I have friends in Palestine': The tragic irony of a peace activist held by Hamas - comment

Her dramatic and heart wrenching words, "I have friends in Palestine," should be a wake-up call: Hamas, as well as a majority of Palestinians, will never acknowledge Israel.

MAY 22, 2024ByZVIKA KLEIN
Screenshot of video provided by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum of observers getting kidnapped to Gaza, May 22, 2024.

Biden: 'Working to make sure we finally get a two-state solution' as Sullivan visits Israel

US President Joe Biden, while speaking at a commencement address, stressed that he is working not only for a ceasefire but to build sustainable peace in the region.

MAY 19, 2024ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
U.S. President Joe Biden addresses Morehouse College graduates during a commencement ceremony in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., May 19, 2024.

With fate of Raisi known, his denial and hatred for Jews and Israel takes the spotlight

The Iranian president's rhetoric has revisited not only historical controversies but also heightened current geopolitical tensions.

MAY 19, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Sudan - Raisi passes by a ship