First Intifada

Founder of Israeli Stage Guy Ben-Aharon, who has produced more than 30 staged readings and full productions of Israeli plays since 2010 (courtesy)

May 18, 2018, 6:14 pm

Boston theater producer happy to air Israel’s ‘dirty laundry’ on stage

After several major Israeli theaters passed on Joshua Sobol’s ‘The Last Act,’ a small American troupe took on staging the ‘politically potent’ play’s world premiere on May 18

By Matt Lebovic

March 30, 2018, 5:02 am

Israel fears rallies will break out of Strip, even if protesters don’t

Organizers insist that the March of Return will be peaceful, but the greater threat to Israel may be a non-violent struggle spreading to the West Bank

By Avi Issacharoff

A Palestinian protester hurls a rock at Israeli forces during clashes near the Israel-Gaza border east of Gaza City on December 9, 2017, following US President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

December 9, 2017, 8:15 pm

To date, Palestinians’ Jerusalem protests are a case of ‘intifada lite’

Fatah and Hamas have been relentlessly urging people to the streets, but only a few thousand have responded. An unpleasant surprise, though, can change that in an instant

By Avi Issacharoff

Palestinian protesters burn pictures of US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in Gaza City, on December 7, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED)

December 7, 2017, 6:49 pm

Abbas must decide how far to let the demonstrations go

With Palestinians of all factions taking to the streets in protest of Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem, the PA president holds the key

By Avi Issacharoff

Cover and detail from the children's book 'P is for Palestine;' photos of Palestinian youth demonstrating against Israel, throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails. (Book pages screenshot from drbashi.com; photos of demonstrations from public domain)

December 5, 2017, 4:00 pm

‘P is for Palestine’ children’s picture book ignites controversy in New York

Some Jewish parents deeply troubled by attacks on author Golberg Bashi, threats against store carrying her book teaching children about Palestinian culture and heritage

By Renee Ghert-Zand

An undated file photograph of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, and late Cuban Pesident Fidel Castro, made available by the Palestinian Authority in Gaza City of the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Palestinian Authority)

November 28, 2016, 4:31 am

Abbas orders Palestinian flags flown at half-staff in honor of Castro

PA president hails late revolutionary Cuban president as leader ‘who spent his life fighting for causes of justice’

By Tamar Pileggi

November 26, 2016, 7:38 pm

Palestinian leaders mourn loss of ‘comrade’ Castro

Revolutionary Cuban president hailed for supporting Palestinian resistance to ‘imperialism, Zionism, racism and capitalism’

By Tamar Pileggi

Almost a decade after the failed London Agreement, prime minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan meet in the Royal Palace in Amman in December 1995. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

September 30, 2016, 3:12 pm

Missed opportunity? The 1987 Peres-Hussein peace deal that wasn’t

Pushed by Margaret Thatcher, Shimon Peres believed the London Agreement would have averted the Intifada. Here’s what went wrong

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at Khartoum's airport, July 19, 2016. (AFP/Ashraf Shazly)

August 4, 2016, 1:16 am

Ahead of elections, Fatah brags of killing 11,000 Israelis

Despite PA efforts to suppress the group, October’s municipal vote could boost Hamas in West Bank

By TOI staff

May 18, 2016, 2:15 pm

Michael Gizzi

That ‘largely non-violent’ Intifada

An erroneous, biased Presbyterian Church committee report on Israel and the Palestinians toes the BDS line

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a meeting with volunteers at Iowa State University, on Sunday, January 31, 2016, in Ames, Iowa (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

February 1, 2016, 3:08 pm

Where does Bernie Sanders stand on Israel?

The Jewish presidential hopeful, a former kibbutz volunteer, is against the US ‘pouring so much military aid into Israel,’ vows to be ‘evenhanded’ in dealing with Israeli-Palestinian conflict

By Eric Cortellessa

Palestinian protesters throw stones at Israeli security forces at the Hawara checkpoint, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, October 11, 2015. (Flash90)

January 15, 2016, 10:08 am

Why the West Bank refugee camps refuse to join the Third Intifada

In Jenin and Balata, they’re waiting for a one-state solution… or for Islamic State

By Avi Issacharoff

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a Christmas lunch with members of the Christian Orthodox community in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, January 6, 2016. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

January 7, 2016, 1:55 pm

Mahmoud Abbas is here to stay, says Mahmoud Abbas

But with public support at an all-time low, and challengers to his rule multiplying, the Palestinian leader may not survive if he can’t address his people’s problems

By Avi Issacharoff

Israeli security forces stand next to the body of a Palestinian man disguised as a news photographer who carried out a stabbing attack against a soldier at the entrance to the city of Hebron on October 16, 2015 (Hazem Bader/AFP)

December 16, 2015, 12:38 pm

Hebron area is major source of Palestinian stabbers, data shows

Few of the 130 attackers in last three months come from refugee camps; average profile is single, male, aged 21

By Avi Issacharoff

Friends and family carry the bodies of Israeli couple Naama and Eitam Henkin during their funeral at Har HaMenuchot Cemetery in Jerusalem on Friday, October 2, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

October 10, 2015, 4:05 am

If the violence dies down, rely on Hamas to reignite it

Abbas speaks of nonviolent protest, but calls to defend al-Aqsa, and his Fatah group is central to anti-Israel incitement. Hamas is much more direct. It is working to uproot both the PA and Israel

By Avi Issacharoff