First intifada

Columbia University students hold lecture teaching ‘lessons’ of First Intifada

Columbia University stated that CUAD was not 'recognized, authorized, or supported' by the institution and that the University rejects 'materials that glorify violence.'

 A timed exposure shot of Columbia University's main academic library (and the largest building on campus), Butler Library, at dusk.
 US President Joe Biden seen leaving a bookstore in Massachusetts with "The hundred Years War on Palestine," November 29, 2024.

Biden spotted with book that accuses Israel of settler-colonialism, apartheid

IDF with Palestinian demonstrators during a rally in solidarity with six Palestinian prisoners who managed to esacpe from an Israeli prison a few days ago, in Hebron, September 9, 2021.

Israel breaks 20-year record for administrative detention of Palestinians - analysis

PALESTINIANS BURN tires in a demonstration during the First Intifada in Ramallah in 1988

34 years after First Intifada, terror attacks still a daily threat in Israel - analysis


The next generation of peace advocates face an even more difficult task

Encountering Peace: The next generation of Israelis and Palestinians will have to try to figure out how to make a single state, from the River to the Sea, of all of its citizens.

HOPE FOR the next generation.

A Gaza diary

My memorable visit to the hotbed of the uprising three decades ago.

Three Palestinian children walk down a dirt road in the Burjeij refugee camp in Gaza

Il y a 30 ans, la première Intifada

Le premier soulèvement populaire palestinien d’envergure a pris l’establishment politique et militaire de court. Les acteurs de cette période racontent

Fouille par l’armée de Palestiniens dans la bande de Gaza en 198

Middle Israel: The Israeli-Palestinian Thirty Years’ War

The balance sheet of the showdown the Palestinians launched in December 1987 indicates more failure than success

The first intifada

Invitation to an intifada: Part 1

Thirty years on, a former soldier recounts 30 days that opened his eyes to the price of occupation

‘OTHER THAN a crash course in crowd control, we were never trained for this.’ The author (foreground) with two other members of his platoon near the village of Yanta, deep in eastern Lebanon, on June 12, 1982, the day after the cease-fire with the Syrians

Middle Israel: Thoughts from atop Har Adar

Behind this week’s terror attack lurks the return of the economic blindness that helped spark the First Intifada.

Israeli soldiers guard near the scene where a Palestinian gunman killed three Israelis and wounded a fourth in an attack on Har Adar before himself being shot dead, September 26, 2017.

David Friedman: Keep the American Embassy in Tel-Aviv

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My front row seat to the intifada

Memories of a visit to 1980s Israel, the year after the first intifada began.

A Palestinian stone-thrower looks on as he stands in front of a fire during clashes with IDF troops in the West Bank village of Duma

Israel's wars as told through the headlines

The fight for Israel's existence, as told by the pages of 'The Jerusalem Post.'

War of Independence

This Week In History: Terror attack on Bus 405

Palestinian terrorist wrenches steering wheel from driver, runs bus down steep ravine killing 16 people and injuring 17.

An Egged bus 370 (R)

This Week in History: Deadly riots on the Temple Mount

After fringe Jewish group attempts to lay cornerstone for a “third temple" in 1990, Palestinians riot and Israeli police fire live bullets into the mob.

Palestinians, Israeli police clash at Temple Mount 311 (R)