“Today we have diplomatic relations with 161 countries – more than at any time in our history,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the AIPAC policy conference in March. “And by the way, there are not that many countries left. There are only about 200 countries in the world.” Despite the number...

In recent years, too many in the African American community have expressed a disconnect to Holocaust topics, seeing the genocide of Jews as someone else’s nightmare. After all, African Americans are still struggling to achieve general recognition of the barbarity of the Middle Passage, the inhumanity of slavery, the oppression...

There is now a serious possibility that Jeremy Corbyn, the controversial leader of the British Labour Party, could be deposed over the anti-Semitism scandal engulfing his party. Several Labour frontbenchers are reportedly threatening to resign in protest, and there is talk of a possible coup. The scandal is so toxic...

Israel will open an official mission at NATO’s Brussels headquarters, the alliance announced Wednesday, reflecting Israel’s strong ties with American and European military partners, its growing rapprochement with Turkey, and growing regional and global concern about violence caused by Iran and ISIS. While Israel is not formally a member of NATO, the United...

Booker Award-winning novelist Howard Jacobson said in an interview with the BBC’s Chris Cook last Friday that he had noticed “a new viciousness” in the anti-Semitism of the British Left since Jeremy Corbyn became leader of the Labour Party last year. The issue of anti-Semitism has been dogging the Labour Party since Corbyn’s...

An Austrian banking giant has terminated the account of an anti-Israel group involved in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, Benjamin Weinthal of The Jerusalem Post reported on Saturday. Erste Group Bank was first revealed to be hosting an account held by BDS Austria in March. In a statement on its website, BDS Austria claimed that its bank...