International issues

Whereas Israel’s stated goal from the onset of its war in Gaza was and still justifiably is the destruction of Hamas, Israel has not offered as yet any clear exit strategy. Even though Hamas cannot be defeated completely, Israel, with…

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Sunday [3 December 2023] sent a strong message to the oil and gas industry: the pledges made at COP28 in Dubai fall well short of what’s needed to meaningfully tackle the climate crisis. As the…

The ICC is a “puppet institution”. What’s needed is a country to invoke the Genocide Convention at the International Court of Justice. Here’s how, with argument, phone numbers, addresses and emails. By Sam Husseini Some of the greatest successes in…

Hypocrisy ran rampant at COP28 even before the doors swung open to 70,000 delegates on Thursday, November 30th. This is the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties (“COP”) held at Expo City, Dubai. It’s the big…

by: Assaf Levy, BioDB   In the tough terrains of Africa, a fast and strong hunter quietly moves – the cheetah. Picture an animal so speedy that it can go from 0 to 60 miles per hour in just a…

On November 21, 2023, an international conference on surrogacy was held at the Parliament of the Czech Republic, on the initiative of three female members of parliament: Ms. Romana Bělohlávková, Ms. Nina Nováková and Ms. Pavla Golasowská. The first part…

Djibouti is a small East African country with an area of 23,200 square km or a little bit smaller than Haiti, Rwanda, or North Macedonia, or a little bit larger than Belize, El Salvador, Israel, or Slovenia. Within this space,…

Under Prime Minister Netanyahu’s leadership, Israel-Jordan relations have hit a new low.  Sadly, after 30 years of peace, there is deep sullenness and disappointment between the two countries. The aspiration for strategic partnership has fallen short, except for security collaboration.…

It takes effort to track the impacts of mass mobilizations like #MeToo, Occupy or Black Lives Matter, but understanding social change is impossible without such work. By Mark Engler and Paul Engler What difference did #MeToo actually make? In 2017 and 2018,…

I went to Auschwitz, the Pain-land. A testimony against antisemitism When I was in London to study political science, I wanted to leave and go to Bristol, because I had found out at that time, that the university there, had…