Research

Research That Shows Its Work

Explore the evidence behind our case. Three research tracks cover foreign lobbying, peace deals, and hate-movement comparisons.

Open the Library Review Methodology

Our research is built to be checked. Every number links to a filing. Every claim links to a source. If you want to inspect the case rather than take it on faith, this is where you start.

Our work falls into three clear tracks.

Middle East lobbying and influence

Foreign states spend real money to shape American opinion. We track who pays, how much, and where the money lands. The filings are public. The Middle East lobbying hub pulls them into one place so you can compare countries side by side.

Land-for-peace deals and their outcomes

History has lessons that get ignored in the heat of debate. We review past peace deals, what each side gave up, and what followed. The goal is simple. Help readers judge current proposals with a clear record of past ones.

Hate-movement comparisons

Antisemitism does not stand alone. It shares tactics with other hate movements. We compare patterns, rhetoric, and funding so readers can spot old playbooks in new clothes.

How we source our work

We lean on the same records trusted by reporters and staff on Capitol Hill. Polling pages follow the AAPOR disclosure standards and Pew Research Center methodology. Treaty and legal pages point back to the State Department’s Office of the Historian and to nonpartisan Congressional Research Service reports.

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Library

Everything we publish is discoverable from one place, with enough metadata to assess usefulness at a glance.

Reports

Reports are for the longest arguments on the site: pages where the claim only works if the sourcing, chronology, and caveats are visible together.

Briefs

Briefs are where OZJF compresses a question without flattening it, giving readers the shortest version that still keeps the evidence visible.

Sources

The sources page explains which source families OZJF relies on, when they are appropriate, and why stronger sourcing matters.

Explainers

Explainers are where OZJF slows an argument down enough for a reader to understand the structure before they decide whether they agree.

Timelines

Timelines are where OZJF tries to make sequence visible, because chronology is one of the first things polemical argument usually destroys.

Fact Checks

Fact checks are for recurring claims that travel fast and deserve a calm public answer tied to identifiable evidence.

Polling

Polling matters on this site because public opinion is often cited badly; this page explains how OZJF reads polls without turning them into props.

Legal and Diplomatic Record

The legal and diplomatic record page is where OZJF organizes the milestones, treaties, resolutions, and statecraft arguments that still shape the present debate.

Land for Peace Record

The record is not that Israel never traded land for peace. The record is that territorial compromise produced very different outcomes depending on the counterparty and the structure of the deal.

PA Martyrs Fund

The Palestinian Authority runs a state program that pays cash to people who killed Israelis and their families. Here is what the law says, what Congress did, and why the fund still exists.

UNRWA and Hamas

A UN agency that employs staff members who also work for Hamas cannot be treated as neutral. Here is what UNRWA itself has admitted, what outside reviews found, and what donors did.

Israel-Syria Separation of Forces (1974)

The 1974 Israel-Syria agreement did not create peace, but it did show that negotiated territorial separation can stabilize an active front for decades.

Recognition and the Rhodesia Comparison

A wave of countries recognizing a state does not, by itself, make that state legitimate. History has an example. Here is how Rhodesia failed the test, and why the same test applies to a Palestinian state under current leadership.

Camp David Accords

Camp David mattered because it separated two questions: the Egypt-Israel treaty track that worked, and the Palestinian autonomy track that never became a settled agreement.

Oslo I

Oslo I mattered because it paired mutual recognition with a five-year interim framework, not because it delivered a final peace.

Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty

Jordan belongs in the lasting-peace column not because the relationship is warm, but because the treaty ended a state of war, fixed a border, and survived repeated regional shocks.

Oslo II

Oslo II mattered because it turned the Oslo process into a territorial and administrative map, not just a diplomatic gesture.

Gaza Disengagement and the Land-for-Peace Debate

Gaza disengagement belongs in the record because Israel really withdrew from inside Gaza, but it should not be confused with a treaty-based peace deal.

History of Gaza

A chapter-by-chapter guide to who ruled Gaza, how the area changed, and why today's arguments make more sense when the chronology is clear.

Terror Designations

This page separates formal legal designations from political shorthand so readers can tell what is actually designated, by whom, and under what authority.

Comparative Extremism

Comparative extremism is useful only if the analogy is disciplined: primary texts first, institutional context second, and limits stated plainly.

The Turner Diaries and The Thorn and the Carnation

These books are worth comparing by function: both turn siege ideology into story, but only one has a well-documented operational trail into specific acts of terror.

KKK and Hamas

This comparison is about structure and moral logic, not about pretending an American racist terror movement and an Islamist armed movement are historically identical.

KKK and Hezbollah

This comparison is narrow: it focuses on anti-Jewish terror logic and civilian targeting, while keeping Hezbollah's very different regional and military role in view.

KKK and the Houthis

The comparison is narrow but real: both movements normalize explicit hatred of Jews as part of public identity, even though the Houthis are a territorial armed actor and the Klan was not.

Globalize The Intifada

This page explains the Jewish hearing of the phrase without pretending that every person who uses it means the same thing.

Methodology

Methodology explains how OZJF researches, verifies, labels, and revises claims before they become public argument.

Religious Jewish Anti-Zionism

Religious Jewish anti-Zionism is real, theologically serious, and often misunderstood. It is also a minority position within Orthodox Jewish life.

Haredi Economy & Demographics

This is one of Israel's most important internal policy debates. The issue is not whether Torah study has value. It is whether the current mix of demographic growth, schooling, labor-force participation, and draft exemptions is sustainable as the Haredi share of the population rises.

Jewish Ancestral Connection

The Jewish connection to the land is not a modern slogan. It is a historical claim supported by archaeology, text, memory, and population history.

Global Jewish Population

Jewish demography is small, concentrated, and definition-sensitive. The numbers matter, but only if we say which numbers we mean.

Refugees and Host States

Host-state caution toward large-scale Palestinian absorption is rooted in history, domestic politics, and an explicit regional policy of preserving the refugee question rather than closing it.

Gaza School Curricula

The key curriculum question is narrower than the old slogan version of this debate. Gaza's formal schoolbooks were largely Palestinian Authority textbooks, and UNRWA schools used the same host-country curriculum. Independent reviews have found recurring anti-Israel, antisemitic, and violence-normalizing content, but the record is more precise than 'all schools teach hate.'

Hamas & Civilian Infrastructure

The strongest public record supports a narrower claim than wartime slogans usually do: Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups have repeatedly used or operated from civilian sites and dense civilian areas in Gaza. That is unlawful under the laws of war, but it does not cancel civilian protection for Gazans.