Jimmy Carter, the former US president, Nobel laureate and founder of the Carter Centre, was conspicuously absent from the podium at the national Democratic conventions in 2008 and 2012, at which Barack Obama was nominated by the party for the US (...)
In December, less than a month after the American Studies Association (ASA) adopted a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions because of what the ASA described as Israel's persistent violations of the human rights of the Palestinian (...)
The ideology, or political project of Zionism, which underlies the creation of the state of Israel, had in fact a Christian origin rather than a Jewish one, as writings can be found dating from the 1500s written by Christian clergymen in England (...)