We only hear voices telling us not make too much noise. Today it is happening in the Gaza Strip, tomorrow it will take place in Bethlehem. In a few months, there will be no Christians left in Palestine." — Christian man, Gaza City Are Palestinian Christians living in the Gaza Strip being kidnapped by Muslims who force them to convert to Islam? This is a story that is...

  The U.S. government considers the descendants of Palestinian refugees to be refugees, a State Department official told The Cable, and another top State Department official wrote in a letter to Congress that there are now 5 million Palestinian refugees. The two new policy statements come in the midst of a fight over whether the United States will start separating, at least on paper,...

The photo went up Sunday night on a student's Facebook page: Ashton Cohen was posing, one of the women in the image wrote jokingly, with his "three wives," a campus paper reported. And the photo and caption ignited the latest skirmish in the bitter proxy war over Israel and Palestine, Jews and Arabs, that has raged for years on campus at the University of California San Diego and...

Last time Israel launched a defensive war in Gaza, J Street called for superpower intervention to restrain the IDF. The position put the ostensibly "pro-Israel" organization firmly on the other side of the Israeli government and three-fourths of the Israeli public, and at least in tension with the Palestinian Authority's "it's Hamas's fault" position. But they're still...

Over the past few weeks, anti-Israel activists have trumpeted their right to engage in offensive, even hateful anti-Israel speech during the so-called "Israel Apartheid Week" or "Hate Week." Insisting on their own freedom to indulge in anti- Israel speech, college activists staged high-profile if unevenly attended events around the world, most notably at Harvard and the...