The Hebrew name Tzion (ציון), or “Zion” as it is commonly translated, appears at least 157 times in the Bible. These verses refer alternately to a “Mount Zion,”, “the daughter of Zion,”, “virgin daughter of Zion,” and many of them are just plain “Zion.” It is misleading to call Zionism a progressive liberation movement when it was always a geographical REAL place that was meant for Jews to RETURN...
Palestinian Arabs Have Been Killing Jews for 100+ Years
Palestinian Arabs have been killing Palestinian Jews for more than 100 years. Their genocide against the Palestinian Jews is not a resurgence, it’s the NORM.
Irwin Cotler Reminds Us Why Jews are Indigenous to Israel
“We still inahbit the same land, embraces the same religion, studies the same indigenous Torah, hearlkens to the same indigenous prophets, speaks the same indigenous language Hebrew and bears the same indigenous name Israel as we did 3500 years. We are also anti-colonial. We are a diverse people, multi racial, multi lingual, multi ethnic, multi cultural people.” – Irwin Cotler Yet again, the...
How Arab Colonialism Conquered the Middle East
How did the indigenous peoples of the Middle East outside of the Arabian Peninsula become “Arabs?
A perspective on colonialism By Medea Jaff:
How ‘The Collective Voice of the Muslim World’ Weaponizes the UN Against Israel
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) presumptuously calls itself “The Collective Voice of The Muslim World,” and simple observation of its activities would seem to place it as Islam’s political Caliphate. One would wonder, then, how such a single-interest organization could lay claim to such a disproportionate amount of the United Nations’ attention.
Israel’s Legal Rights and Title to Judah, Shomron and Azza
On the site called Israel-Arab Conflict FAQ, there is an introduction and it reads: “Israel has been losing the media war in regards to the Israeli-Arab conflict. This simple ‘Question and Answer’ formatted document is meant to help people argue and debase Arab and Palestinian claims.” Question #17 on the FAQ is: What are Israel’s legal rights and title to Yehuda, Shomron and Azza? The answer to...
League of Nations Mandates and Subsequent Nation State Borders
Eugene Kontorovich is a Professor at Northwestern University School of Law whose research spans the fields of constitutional law, international law, and law and economics. He is an expert in international jurisdiction and criminal law, and has written extensively about the legal aspects of the Israeli-Arab conflict.
Why Israeli Rule in the West Bank Is Legal under International Law
An interview with Professor Eugene Kontorovich by Sarah Haetzni-Cohen A version of this interview first appeared in Hebrew in Makor Rishon on March 23, 2018. Professor Eugene Kontorovich is the head of the international law department of the Kohelet Policy Forum and a fellow of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He teaches at the Law Faculty of Northwestern University. Born in Ukraine...
Muslim armies conquered Jerusalem in 638 CE.
Muslim armies conquered Jerusalem in 638 CE.
The occupying forces built al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock shrine atop the ruins of the Jewish Temple.
Pre-State Israel: Robert Kennedy’s Reports from Palestine, (April 1948)
In April 1948, one month before Israel declared independence, Robert Kennedy traveled to Palestine to report for the Boston Post on the conflict prior to the British deaparture. His dispatches were published in June 1948.