Search our monthly Contemporary Readings for a selection of the most valuable articles related to Israel and the Middle East that are posted online.
Assembled by Maya Rezak and Ken Stein, Center for Israel Education Iran-Israel War Videos CNN International, “Israel’s Covert Intelligence Operations,” June 26, 2025, Jonathan Conricus. Israel Policy Forum, “Assessing the War in Iran,” June 25,…
Assembled by Scott Abramson and Ken Stein, Center for Israel Education Ramzy Baroud, “The Long History of Palestine — How Palestinians See Their Future and Their Past,” Palestine Chronicle, October 28, 2024, https://www.palestinechronicle.com/the-long-history-of-palestine-how-palestinians-see-their-future-and-their-past Lenny Ben-David,…
Assembled by Scott Abramson and Ken Stein, Center for Israel Education David Makovsky, moderator, “Decision Points: Hamas, Israel, Hezbollah and the Middle East at War,” audio interviews from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy: Yoni…
Assembled by Scott Abramson and Ken Stein, Center for Israel Education Scott Abramson, “The Iranian Regime Is Not Its People,” Jewish News Syndicate, August 19, 2024, https://www.jns.org/the-iranian-regime-is-not-its-people Brian C. Anderson, “A Crisis on Campus,” City Journal, August 17,…
Khaled Abu Toameh, “Is Hamas Waging a Smear Campaign Against Egypt?” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, January 21, 2024. https://jcpa.org/is-hamas-waging-a-smear-campaign-against-egypt/ Lior Ben-Ari, “Abraham Accords Hold Steady amid Gaza War Turmoil,” Ynet, January 9, 2024. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bja2d9q006?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=internal…
Additional readings and resources on the war can be found here. Assembled by Ken Stein and Wendy Kalman, Center for Israel Education Jon Alterman, “Israel Could Lose,” Center for Strategic & International Studies, November 7,…
Assembled by Ken Stein and Wendy Kalman, Center for Israel Education Elliott Abrams, “As Israel Turns 75, ‘Foreign Affairs’ Publishes a Call to Eliminate It,” Council of Foreign Relations, May 9, 2023, https://www.cfr.org/blog/israel-turns-75-foreign-affairs-publishes-call-eliminate-it Ghaith al-Omari,…
Assembled by Ken Stein and Wendy Kalman, Center for Israel Education Ghaith al-Omari, “To Prevent the PA from Unraveling, Address Internal Reform,” Washington Institute, February 28, 2023, https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/prevent-pa-unraveling-address-internal-reform AJC Staff, “The State of Anti-Semitism in…
February 3, 2023 Assembled by Ken Stein, Emory University’s Institute for the Study of Modern Israel and Wendy Kalman, Center for Israel Education Abbas Al Lawati, “Israel’s rightward shift leaves its new Arab allies in…