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Assembled by Scott Abramson and Ken Stein, Center for Israel Education Aviram Bellaishe, “When Recognition Becomes Evasion: Europe’s Palestinian Statehood Campaign,” Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, April 29, 2025. Ilan Berman, “The Middle…
Assembled by Scott Abramson and Ken Stein, Center for Israel Education Lenny Ben-David, “Iran Spreads Illegal Drugs in the Middle East, Western Hemisphere, and the Far East,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, October 13, 2024,…
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 “AJC Survey Shows American Jews are Deeply and Increasingly Connected to Israel,” American Jewish Committee, June 10, 2024, “https://www.ajc.org/news/ajc-survey-shows-american-jews-are-deeply-and-increasingly-connected-to-israel Alan Aziz, “Israel at War…
Assembled by Scott Abramson and Ken Stein, Center for Israel Education CIE Webinar, “Women Respond to the War With Hamas,” Ken Stein, Yocheved Kim Ruttenberg, Pnina Sharvit Baruch, and Julia Elad-Strenger, April 17, 2024 (audio/visual)https://israeled.org/israels-9-11-women-respond-to-the-war-with-hamas/…
Assembled by Scott Abramson and Ken Stein, Center for Israel Education Hussain Abdul-Hussain, “Is Gaza Really the Biggest Case of Arab Suffering?” Algemeiner, February 28, 2024, https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/02/28/is-gaza-really-the-biggest-case-of-arab-suffering/ Hezki Baruch, “Netanyahu Presents: The Plan for ‘The…
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 AJC Global Forum 2021, “Unveiling Israel’s Strategic Vision: A Conversation with Ron Dermer, Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs,” American Jewish Committee, June 12, 2023, …
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…
Assembled by Ken Stein and Eli Sperling, Emory University and Center for Israel Education, kenstein@israeled.org Hicham Alaoui “Failed Dream of Political Islam,” LeMonde Diplomatique, November 2018. https://mondediplo.com/2018/11/02arab-world Anadolu Agency, “Israeli saz player gives Jerusalem the…