Casey Babb

Casey Babb is an International Fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, and a Senior Fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s Center for North American Prosperity and Security

The intifada has invaded our hospitals

From our UK edition

What’s happening to our doctors? Researchers at an organisation called Do No Harm recently found that American healthcare professionals were more than two times likelier to be anti-Semitic than their share of the workforce, and that physicians are nearly 26 times overrepresented among individuals identified as having publicly shared anti-Semitic content. This is a worrying tendency which seems common across the West.

Will Palestinians give peace a chance?

From our UK edition

Time and time again, people look to those outside of the Middle East to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. After decades of an occupation and unrelenting hostilities between Jews and Arabs in the region, it makes sense why the burden of peace is so often placed on leaders abroad. Unfortunately, this approach has repeatedly failed, in large part because convoluted peace plans tend to focus on land over ideology, dreams over reality, and an outright denial of existing beliefs which for many, seem insurmountable.