A visit to Canada

Emmanuel Navon is an International Relations lecturer at Tel Aviv University. His appearance as  guest speaker at UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal) attracted anti-Zionist protesters, but others in the audience came to him after his talk to shake his hand and say thank you.

Deadly role

On Monday, actor Juliano Mer Khamis, the son of an Israeli Jewish mother and a Palestinian Arab father, was murdered by a terrorist in the West Bank town of Jenin. Richard Klagsbrun remembers him as an actor who believed that hope and reason could overcome hate.

Goldstone Report finding reversed

Richard Goldstone has come to the conclusion that in the 2008-2009 Gaza conflict it was not Israeli policy to intentionally target civilians, reversing a key finding of his United Nations report. "If I had known then what I know now," he has written in an article in The Washington Post, "the Goldstone Report would have been a different document."

Israel has called for the report, which accused Israel of war crimes, to be withdrawn. "Everything we said has been proven true," said Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. "Israel did not intentionally harm civilians .... The fact that Goldstone backtracked must lead to the shelving of this report once and for all."