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When Bob Hawke first visited Israel in 1971 as ACTU president, he called his meeting with Prime Minister Golda Meir a “life-changing event.” He spoke of Israel as a small but resilient democracy, standing firm in a hostile region. He…

Last night, between the multi-million dollar beer commercials and the high-stakes plays of the Super Bowl, Robert Kraft’s Blue Square Alliance delivered its latest $15 million message to America. The ad, titled “Sticky Note,” depicted a…

Venezuela’s cryptocurrency experiment offers a cautionary tale about the limits of technological solutions to fundamentally political and economic problems—and reveals something important about how states miscalculate when reaching for…

For many Israelis, “How are you?” has become a difficult question. Years of crisis culminating in October 7, the war in Gaza, and increasingly brutal behavior in the public sphere have fused personal and national well-being into one…

I want to begin with something personal. I am a Moroccan Arab. I was raised Muslim. I grew up with deep sympathy for the suffering of others, especially Palestinians. And yet today, I am openly pro-Israel and pro–Jewish life — not in…

Something significant is taking shape in Washington, and Pakistan is right at the heart of it.

On February 19th, leaders from across the globe will gather for the inaugural summit of the Gaza Board of Peace—and Pakistan will be there….

In the UK, we have tragically joined the club of countries in which Jews have been murdered for being Jews. Trades unions, universities, the NHS to name a few are now all hotbeds of hatred against Israel, relying on the oft repeated lie that…

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More importantly, it mistakes power for legitimacy. Law is the difference between power that must be feared and authority that is recognized. Where law is absent, violence substitutes. Where law is arbitrary, legitimacy…

In Arabic, Nakba simply means catastrophe. The term entered political usage after the 1948 war to describe the shock and trauma of its outcome. At the time, it referred to the catastrophic failure of a war launched to eliminate any…

The Moroccan Jewish culture as manifested in Israel today is a lamentable distortion of its authentic Maghrebi essence. What was once a multi-stranded cultural matrix of Amazigh (Berber), Andalusian, and Sephardic threads has been bleached…