Listen to the modern-day Jeremiahs denouncing Israel’s war in Gaza

2,500 years ago, the prophet Jeremiah rebuked the people of Israel and the political leaders of the Kingdom of Judah. According to the Hebrew Scriptures, Jeremiah denounced the corruption, social injustice, brutality, and general moral decadence of “unbelieving Israel.” He was called a traitor because he appeared to support the kingdom’s eastern enemy, the Babylonian […]

“Welcome to hell”: inside Israel’s prisons – podcast | News

Israel’s far-right Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, has led reforms to the country’s prison system, which human rights group B’Tselem has called “torture camps” where abuse is systematically perpetrated. The Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent, Bethan McKernanspoke to several former inmates about their experiences. “Almost every detainee told me the same story,” Bethan said. Michael […]

Israel’s Darkest Day

Estimated Reading Time: 9 minutes More than 1,000 Israelis died at the hands of Hamas terrorists on October 7, by far the worst day in Israeli history, roughly triple the death count on the bloodiest day of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The Israeli military and civil society were taken unawares and responded slowly and […]