The Democratic Party’s top congressional leaders have continued to criticize the Obama administration for its refusal last month to veto a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israeli activities in eastern Jerusalem. That number has now grown, with more than 30 Democratic representatives and 10 senators (a quarter of the Democratic Senate delegation) cosponsoring motions in their chambers condemning the UN...

Australia would have voted against last week’s anti-Israel resolution at the United Nations Security Council had it been given the opportunity, the country’s foreign minister said in a statement on Thursday. Australia is not on the Security Council and therefore could not vote on the resolution, which criticized Israeli presence in...

In what been described as an “unprecedented” public rebuke of a close ally, the British government released a statement on Thursday harshly criticizing U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry after his speech about Israeli-Palestinian peace on Wednesday. “We do not believe that the way to negotiate peace is by focusing on only one issue,...

In a more than hour-long speech Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry laid out six “principles” for what he believed a just and successful two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian question would look like. In doing so, he also pledged that while other countries might support a unilateral move toward Palestinian statehood at...

In a surprising rebuke, the House of Representatives’ second-leading Democrat publicly and preemptively criticized Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday, stating that Kerry’s scheduled speech on Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations should not break with the longstanding U.S. policy that terms for an agreement can only come through bilateral negotiations. The statement by House Minority Whip...

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a harsh statement on Friday criticizing the United Nations Security Council’s vote in favor of a resolution condemning Israeli activity in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem. Israel rejects this shameful anti-Israel resolution at the UN and will not abide by...