Education in Gaza

The United Nations wants to teach children in UN schools in the Gaza Strip about the Holocaust, starting this September. Hamas has pledged to stop the plan, "regardless of the price."

Palestinian hi-tech

After considering India and China, an Israeli hi-tech company chose Ramallah in the West Bank for a new software design center. In the past five years, the Palestinian technology sector has grown to 250 companies employing 5,800 people. About 32 percent of Palestinian technology companies are working with Israeli partners.

Hope tempered by worry

Some Israelis are worried by the popular rebellions rocking the Middle East.  Natan Sharansky is hopeful.

Seeking justice in Libya

For Gina Bublil Waldman, a Libyan Jew who left Libya more than 42 years ago  the upheaval sweeping Libya has opened old wounds. "In 1967, during the Six-Day War between Israel and its five Arab neighbors," she writes, "mobs took to the streets, burning Jewish homes."

Israel Apartheid Week and its precursors

Catherine Chatterley, founding director of the Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, discusses the origins of IAW and what is needed in response.