The folks at Monticello are launching a book club aimed at reminding us that we once sought to overthrow would-be kings.

The U.S.-Israel relationship explained: historical support, strategic value, domestic politics, and powerful pro-Israel lobby ...

In the past 20 months, more than 55,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip and nearly 950 in the occupied West Bank .

He played a critical role in the issuance of the Balfour Declaration and later served as Israel’s first president. By Rick Richman Share Resize ...

Painted by Hungarian artist Philip Alexius de László in 1914, the life-size artwork depicts a seated Balfour, a graduate of the college, wearing a dark suit and red gown and holding an open book.

The “non-Jewish” population, to use the Balfour Declaration’s terminology was about 85% or 6 out of 7. One can argue that a “national home” is not necessarily a country.

Sahar Huneidi is a Palestinian historian. Her latest book is The Hidden History of the Balfour Declaration. The Uses and Abuses of Language in Israel’s War on Palestinians The Uses and Abuses of ...

The book explains why, after 1929, Jews realised Arabs will forever reject the Zionist dream to have their own state – the root cause of the conflict, which continues today.

The sky lights up as a building is hit during an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City late on Nov. 2. (Dawood Nemer/AFP/Getty Images) You’re reading the Karen Attiah newsletter. Sign up to get it in ...

Historians typically cite the Balfour Declaration of 1917, in which the British approved of establishing a Jewish “national home” in the Holy Land, and Israel’s war of independence in 1947-1949.