Today, there are more than 6.5 million Palestinian refugees living mainly in refugee camps in the occupied territories (East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza), and in neighboring countries in the Middle East (Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq), and more than…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has tried to explain the recent anger and responses to Israeli provocations of Palestinians in East Jerusalem as “deep-seated hatred of Jews.” But we need to look more closely at the Israeli government’s own actions—and specifically…
For more than fifty years, United States law has explicitly mandated a link between foreign aid and the human rights records of nations receiving that aid. The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 states that a “principal goal of the foreign…
Throughout its history, The New York Times has aimed to uphold the highest principles of fairness and accuracy in our news coverage. We take this very seriously. We now recognize this sense of fairness has been absent in our paper’s…
Israeli Incitement To the Editor: Re “Israel Arrests 5 in Crackdown on Online Incitement,” (Jan. 11): Your article on the arrests of young Palestinians on the basis of Facebook posts supposedly encouraging violence against Israelis, is silent about the daily incitement…
