Occupation

Breaking the individual to break the collective - opinion

Occupation does not begin at a border. It begins inside the human mind. That is why sexual violence has remained such an effective weapon across centuries.

|ByCATHERINE PEREZ-SHAKDAM
Demonstrators hold signs against what they describe as international silence over sexual violence perpetrated against Israeli women during the attack by Hamas on southern Israel on October 7, at a protest in Jerusalem, November 27, 2023.
JEWS AND Arabs take part in a demonstration against Israeli settlements in the West Bank and to mark the anniversary of the Six-Day War in Haifa, northern Israel, June 6, 2026.

Man arrested for waving Palestine flag at joint Jewish-Arab anti-government protest

The protest set out on Thursday afternoon, initiated by “Partnership for Peace” and dozens of other organizations and parties, marking 59 years since the Six Day War.

|ByYOAV ETIEL
Exterior view of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025.

The EU-ICC assault - opinion

Reports surfaced that the International Criminal Court is planning arrest warrants against elected leaders of Israel, and the EU announced new sanctions against Israeli civic organizations.

|ByGOL KALEV
Palestinians throw stones at Jewish settlers as they establish a pastoral outpost at the site where Jewish settler Yehuda Sherman was murdered, near the village of Beit Mirin north of Nablus in the West Bank.

‘Settler violence’: A buzzword used to single out Israel - opinion

Settler violence is frequently deployed as a label that implies state responsibility.

|ByALAN BAKER

Letters to the Editor March 1, 2023: The very concept of democracy

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

MARCH 1, 2023ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters

Moral idiocy: Academics fuel Palestinian terror against Israel - opinion

Jews have often been blamed for their enemies’ enmity. This Palestinian addiction to violence, however, reveals more about the killers than those killed. 

FEBRUARY 15, 2023ByGIL TROY
MOURNERS ATTEND the funeral of Asher Menachem Pally on Saturday night, after he died of injuries sustained in Friday’s car-ramming terror attack in Jerusalem.

Israel's Right lied about the court, lust for despotic rule - opinion

Israel's legal system has managed to preserve our right to not be arrested in the middle of the night by an elected dictatorship’s political militia.

FEBRUARY 7, 2023ByDAN PERRY
SUPREME COURT President Esther Hayut flanked by justices Uzi Vogelman (left) and Isaac Amit. The court has, in fact, not dared to decisively impact the burning issues rending Israeli society, says the writer.

From legal occupation to annexation, and how it’s viewed internationally - opinion

Since 1967, there has been a situation known internationally as temporary occupation, with legal recognition of the temporary legitimacy of the Israeli presence in the territories.

FEBRUARY 5, 2023ByDANIEL CARMON
FOREIGN MINISTRY Director-General Alon Ushpiz (right) sits alongside Foreign Minister Eli Cohen at a ceremony at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem when Cohen was welcomed as the new minister.

UNHRC discriminates against Israel, should send rapporteur home - opinion

Appointing a UNHRC rapporteur to Israel is an outrageous and totally fictitious antisemitic assessment of the relationship between our Arab citizens and residents, and the Jewish Israeli public.

JANUARY 31, 2023ByWALTER BINGHAM
MICHAEL LYNK, then-special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, attends a session of the Human Rights Council at the UN in Geneva, in 2019.

In Nablus, Lions' Den vows to continue resistance against Israel

To most residents of this large city in the northern West Bank, these young men are the new face of Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation.

JANUARY 27, 2023ByLINDA GRADSTEIN
Posters of Palestinian ‘martyrs’ in Nablus

EU must sanction Israel, Shtayyeh tells foreign ministers in Brussels

Mohammad Shtayyeh: There is a need for serious intervention to protect the Palestinian people and preserve the two-state solution.

JANUARY 23, 2023ByTOVAH LAZAROFF, KHALED ABU TOAMEH
French Foreign and European Affairs Minister Catherine Colonna welcomes Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh before a meeting on the sidelines of a EU's Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Brussels, Belgium January 23, 2023.

Israel to open 'there is no occupation' campaign, new minister says

Public Diplomacy Minister Galit Distal Atbaryan vows to clarify that Israel has stolen or occupied nothing, and that the Bible is the Jews' deed to the land.

JANUARY 16, 2023ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Palestinians and pro-Palestinian supporters protest against Israeli attacks on Gaza amid days of conflict between the two sides, in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., May 15, 2021

14 Days: New cabinet

Israeli news highlights from the past two weeks.

JANUARY 16, 2023BySTEVE LINDE
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen at a meeting of his new cabinet in Jerusalem.

The upside of the occupation's negative impact on Israel's foreign relations -opinion

It may be beneficial to expose the cost of the occupation to make it clear that we can't be part of the enlightened world as an occupying people.

JANUARY 15, 2023ByNADAV TAMIR
SUCCESSIVE ISRAELI governments, including the so-called government of change of 2021-2022 headed by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, succeeded in convincing the world that the occupation is temporary, says the writer.