The Masjid al-Aqsa of Jerusalem is linked in the Quran to the story of the night journey of Prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Jerusalem and has deep religious meaning for Muslims across the world.
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One of main drivers of unrest has been the conflicting claims to East Jerusalem, dating back to the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948.
Canadian Jewish scholars have released a statement to express alarm at attempts to intervene in campus activities relating to Israel and Palestine.
With his back to the wall, Israel’s longest-serving leader, Binyamin Netanyahu, was able to sustain his popularity within his base by taking credit for Israel’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
A tweet led a scholar to consider how misinformation is changing the ways we evaluate information and trust others.
Palestinian territories are impoverished and densely populated – ripe for the spread of coronavirus. Israel may have a practical as well as moral obligation to extend its vaccine program to them.
A Trump election loss would suit NZ’s trade, climate and arms control foreign policies. But there will still be the problem of China.
Interviews with young hiloni, secular Israeli-Jews, shows many have complicated feelings about Palestinians.
Biden and Trump are like night and day on foreign policy, and American global engagement would change radically under a Biden presidency. But actual Mideast policy might show only cosmetic changes.
‘Beta testing’ of bold ideas is rare in foreign affairs, but the UAE and Bahrain have provided just such a test case for the Saudis in their own push to normalise relations with Israel.
Israel and the United Arab Emirates weren’t at war, so their new deal is not really a peace accord. Nor does it satisfy the Palestinians, who need Arab nations to support their drive for statehood.
PM Benjamin Netanyahu could begin to unveil his annexation plans on July 1 – a move that would be the most contentious move of his lengthy premiership.
The Jordan Valley, which US president Donald Trump has proposed integrating into Israel, has been transformed by the introduction of date palms, emptying it of its Palestinian inhabitants.
Long in the making, the US administration’s Middle East plan was quickly rejected by Palestinian leaders. It was hardly surprising, as they took no part in its drafting.
A view from the West Bank on Donald Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ for Israel and Palestine.
There’s little hope as we head into 2020 that Israel will negotiate in good faith with Palestinian leaders. Yet Israel will never be safe from attack until it does so.
The US no longer views Israeli settlements on the West Bank as going against international law. What this means for Palestinians.
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was indicted on corruption charges Wednesday, both the charges and Netanyahu’s response to them were reminiscent of the situation President Trump is in.
Israel’s blocakde of Gaza has created a state of physical imprisonment and human despair.
Coalition negotiations begin in Israel after neither Benjamin Netanyahu nor Benny Gantz secure a majority.
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Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Israel Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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Research Scholar, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University
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Associate Professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Arizona
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Affiliate Researcher, The Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University
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Assistant Professor of Global Health Management and Informatics, University of Central Florida
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Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcolonial Studies, UCL
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Chair, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, and Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor of International Relations, American University School of International Service
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Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney
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Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney
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Professor, Sociology, Mount Royal University
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Professor of Colonial History, University of Victoria
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Reader in International Journalism, City, University of London
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Senior Research Fellow, Muslim Philanthropy Initiative at IUPUI and Journalist-fellow, Religion and Civic Culture Center, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
