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The Islamic State on Tuesday took responsibility for a lethal truck attack on a crowded Christmas market in Berlin a day earlier that killed a dozen people and injured 48 more. The jihadist group’s Amaq news agency claimed that a “soldier of the Islamic State … carried out the attack in response to...

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A German bank has closed the account of a group involved in the anti-Israel boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign, which has “the goal of destabilizing the State of Israel and is not compatible with the principles of the [b]ank,” The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. “The positions of the BDS campaign, in content...

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British Prime Minister Theresa May announced on Monday that the UK government will adopt a new, clearer definition of anti-Semitism. May outlined the new definition, which was set out by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, in a major speech to a Conservative Friends of Israel event. The definition includes claims that...

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The United Kingdom and Gulf countries will work together to counter Iran’s “aggressive regional actions,” British Prime Minister Theresa May announced Wednesday. May was in Bahrain for the Gulf Cooperation Council summit, which also included leaders from Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. The UK and those countries signed...

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s political party, the Christian Democratic Union, adopted a resolution on Wednesday that condemned the anti-Israel Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, calling the movement anti-Semitic. “The German CDU declares with this motion its disapproval and rejection of every form of BDS activity and condemns these activities as anti-Semitic,”...

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In the wake of last month’s damaging wildfires in Haifa, the Israeli government announced Thursday that it would partner with Greece and Cyprus—two of the countries who assisted in putting out the fires—to create a regional emergency response force. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the announcement after meeting with...

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