Rachel Avraham

The author is a senior media research analyst at the Center for Near East Policy Research and correspondent at the Israel Resource News Agency. She is the author of Women and Jihad: Debating Palestinian Female Suicide Bombings in the American, Israeli and Arab Media.

 Members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) attend an IRGC ground forces military drill in the Aras area, East Azerbaijan province, Iran, October 17, 2022.

Iran’s repression of Azerbaijani identity - opinion

Narges Mohammadi sits in her apartment in Tehran, Iran, on December 18, 2024.

Western feminists must stand with Azerbaijani women in Iran - opinion

Protesters gather as vehicles burn, amid evolving anti-government unrest, in Tehran, Iran, in this screen grab obtained from a social media video released on January 9, 2026.

The divide in Iran's protests: Why ethnic minorities are not taking to the streets - opinion


Time for a reset: Amid institutional paralysis, Trump and Aliyev call for a UN overhaul - opinion

The joint message is clear: the UN must adapt to the realities of the 21st century or risk irrelevance.

US President Donald Trump listens to Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev as he speaks during a trilateral signing event with Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan (not pictured), at the White House, in Washington, DC, August 8, 2025.

Landmines kill or maim about 5,000 people annually, ban them now - opinion

From the conflicts in Ukraine and Azerbaijan and Armenia to the ones in Afghanistan, the Golan Heights and the Arab world, landmines remain a major threat to civilians.

 A MINE CLEARING operation takes place at the Gadot Observation Point, Golan Heights, in 2021.

Commentary: Why is today’s Jewish youth unaware of Israel’s legal rights?

When the 1967 war started, Jordan and Egypt were not the legal sovereigns of the Gaza Strip or the West Bank, so why is Israel viewed as being in the wrong?

The Jewish People's Right to the Land of Israel by Salomon Benzimra

Double standards in international community must end!

When a Palestinian terrorist stabs an Israeli high school student in Afula, most of the world was silent.

UNHRC 521

Netanyahu, please help the Yazidi people

Over 3,000 Yazidi women and girls remain enslaved throughout the Middle East.

YAZIDI STUDENTS play last month near the psychotherapy center in the Rawanga camp in Iraq.

Debunking antisemitic conspiracy theories

News website in Turkey spreads concocted tales as other Muslim countries follow suit.

placards from an anti-Israel rally (Illustrative).

Where is the international outrage?

As the human rights of women and minorities is systematically violated across the Muslim world, the international community is eerily silent, preferring to systematically condemn Israel

Gaza Islamic Lecturer Tahani Abu Jazar: Islam defends the rights of women

Now is the time to act against Iran

After Netanyahu declared his intention to prevent Iran from establishing a permanent base in Syria, the US and Israel should embolden the Kurds to act against the Iranian regime.

Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a campaign meeting at the Mosalla mosque in Tehran, Iran, May 16, 2017. Picture taken May 16, 2017.

PM’s India trip: Can an alliance with Modi open up new doors for Israel?

With the burgeoning of Indian-Israeli relations and given the great influence of India both culturally and politically, can other countries in Asia follow in India’s footsteps?


The Bangladeshi government’s hypocrisy on Trump’s Jerusalem declaration

Bangladesh’s prime minister condemns Trump for his Jerusalem declaration while denying the will of the people

 A VENDOR sells pictures of Hindu goddess during Durga Puja in old Dhaka.