Jerusalem Controversy

Dozens of people were injured and arrested late Thursday night as far-right Jewish extremists marched into east Jerusalem, chanting "Death to Arabs."  The protests took place mainly at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City where Arab youth hurled rocks and bottles at police as the daily Ramadan fast came to…

Author of the article: Reuters Dan Williams and Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM — A Syrian missile exploded in southern Israel on Thursday, the Israeli military said, in an incident that triggered warning sirens near the secretive Dimona nuclear reactor and an Israeli strike in Syria. An Israeli military spokesman identified the…

Violent clashes were reported between Arab and Jewish youth in downtown Jerusalem on Wednesday night, Israel Police reported.  Police officers were called to the scene of a café on Hillel Street, following several reports of a violent quarrel between two groups of Jewish and Arab youth who were using "sticks and other objects"…

Jerusalem’s foremost “psychotrap” outfit transform the writing of Michel Foucault, the philosophy of Deleuze & Guattari and the poetry of Antonin Artaud into cacophonous experimental hip-hop. In Anti-Oedipus, the first volume of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s monumental work Capitalism and Schizophrenia, the philosophers express their suspicion of Sigmund Freud’s…

AL-MUKALLA: At least 45 Houthis have been killed in heavy fighting in the past 48 hours near the central city of Marib as the Houthis push ahead with their bloody offensive, a military official told Arab News on Friday. Iran-backed Houthis in February resumed a major offensive to seize control…

Exiles often have conflicting feelings about their adoptive society, and Edward Said was no exception. As a Palestinian in the United States, he recognized the country’s pervasive racism and violence, but he also knew its educational system made his career as a renowned and prosperous thinker possible. His life was…

Author of the article: JERUSALEM — The coronavirus variant discovered in South Africa may evade the protection provided by Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine to some extent, a real-world data study in Israel found, though its prevalence in the country is very low and the research has not been peer reviewed. The…

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Joint List MK Ofer Cassif after being beaten by police officers during a protest in East Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, April 9, 2021. (From the Twitter page of Joint List MK Aida Touma-Sliman). Photo via Times of Isreal.Ofer Cassif, a Jewish member of the mostly Arab Joint List party, was…

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is set to arrive in Israel on Sunday, marking the first visit of a high-ranking official of the Biden administration. Austin is reportedly set to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi. They will discuss Iran’s nuclear…