For millions of parents, Ms. Rachel is a gentle fixture of early childhood education, a soft-spoken woman in overalls who teaches toddlers their first words and calms overtired households. But in 2025, that trusted persona collided with a deeply different public reality. Ms. Rachel was named Antisemite of the Year by watchdog groups after months […]

For years, the narrative that Israel “controls Washington” through AIPAC has circulated across political extremes. But a closer look at the data reveals a very different picture: it is Qatar—not Israel—that has built the most extensive foreign influence network in the U.S. capital, spending billions to shape policy, academia, media, and elite opinion while shielding […]

Israel is often accused of monopolizing regional water resources, but the reality is the opposite. Over the past several decades, Israel has transformed itself from an extremely water-scarce nation into a global provider of water solutions, technologies and even direct water supply to its neighbors. The country now produces more water than it consumes, despite […]

United Hatzalah, one of Israel’s largest volunteer-based EMS networks, illustrates this dynamic. The organization operates with more than 8,000 trained volunteers—Jews, Muslims, Christians, Druze, secular and religious—who answer over 2,000 emergency calls daily. With average response times under three minutes nationwide, the group regularly reaches medical scenes in mixed Jewish–Arab neighborhoods, shared highways, and Palestinian […]

NPR’s recent profile of Palestinian writer Bassam Khandaqji omitted key information about his background, spotlighting him as a novelist while leaving out, in the headline and initial framing, that he had been serving three life sentences for assisting the PFLP in a 2004 suicide bombing that killed three Israeli civilians. The omission has renewed scrutiny […]