Highly religious Americans tended to be much more sympathetic toward Israel, which is seen as a fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies, entitling it to divine privileges other nations may not claim
Category: Middle East
Israel-Hamas War Casts Shadow On Abraham Accords
Jewish communities in the Gulf states have been emerging from the shadow of the Arab-Israeli conflict and adopting a more public profile including through open celebration of their holidays' thanks to the Abraham Accords
Propped Up To Counter Palestine’s Secularists, How Hamas Came Back To Bite Israel
Israel recognized Mujama Al-Islamiya, a precursor to Hamas, by registering it as a charity and allowed it to set up a university, and build mosques, clubs, and schools as it sought to counter the secular nationalist Palestine Liberation Organization
How Colonialism 1st Shaped India’s Solidarity & Now Indifference To Palestine
Bitter fruits of British colonialism—India's division in 1947 and expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland for Israel's creation a year later—informed Indian policies towards Palestine until the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rose to power in 2014
Saraya al-Atabat: Iraq’s Shrine Militias That Helped Defeat ISIS
The Iraqi clergy took a leading role in defeating ISIS by employing religious symbolism as Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani issued a fatwa urging men to resist and led to a surge in volunteers for the Popular Mobilisation Force
Three Worlds: Story Of The Lost World Of Arab Jews
Former Oxford professor Avi Shlaim’s book Three Worlds: Memoir of an Arab-Jew uncovers what he calls ‘undeniable proof' of Zionist involvement in the attacks that forced Iraqi Jews to emigrate to Israel after over 2,500 years of presence in Babylon
‘Second Red Scare’: McCarthyism And Muzzling Of Pro-Palestinian Voices
McCarthyism is back in the spotlight against the backdrop of Israel's unrelenting assault on the besieged Gaza Strip and the muzzling of pro-Palestinian voices in the US by conflating opposition to Israel's total disregard of international humanitarian law with antisemitism