‘Hasbara’: Fostering counter-narrative engagement

Zionists explain themselves. That is what is at the root of the Hebrew term hasbara. Read more

The elasticising of semantics

“Zionism developed as a colonialist movement” is how Professor Ishay Rosen Zvi, head of the Talmud and Late Antiquity section in the Jewish Philosophy Department at Tel Aviv University, opens a recent op-ed of his published in Haaretz. Read more

The UN-Abbas Playground

How important is the Temple Mount?…asks Yisrael Medad/JNS. Read more

Jordan’s King at the UN

Jordan’s King Abdullah II spoke at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday. His speech revealed several nuances which, I fear, too many diplomats may have failed to grasp their real meanings in the context of Middle East history and the particulars of the Arab conflict with Israel…writes Yisrael Medad/JNS. Read more

Oslo Accords’ first quarter-century … and their next

Whether the Oslo Accords—the 25-year of their signing that was marked on Sept. 13—were dead-on-arrival or were asphyxiated by an Arab refusal to negotiate, or to abide by them or even to have accepted them over a period of time, remains immaterial…writes Yisrael Medad/JNS. Read more

King Abdullah, let’s keep the geography correct

The report from the Al-Bawaba news web site, based in Amman, Jordan, was headlined: “Amman to White House: Jordan is Not Palestine”…writes Yisrael Medad/JNS. Read more