French President François Hollande called yesterday’s attack on the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that killed twelve a “terrorist attack” as thousands rallied in the streets of Paris and one French politician called the attack “our September 11.” In addition to declaring three days of mourning Hollande vowed to bring the...

Jews are the primary group subjected to hate speech in the Turkish media, according to a new report published in the Turkish Jewish newspaper Salom. The media monitoring report covering news reports and columns published between May and August 2014 was part of “Monitoring Hate Speech in Media” research conducted by...

A sweep of arrests of Turkish police officers conducted Monday – Turkish news outlets reported the detained officers were arrested on charges of illegal wiretapping – is set to deepen concerns that Ankara is again cracking down on government workers it fears are aligned with U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen. The arrests...

Former American peace negotiator Dennis Ross argued in a New York Times op-ed today that it is time to hold the Palestinians accountable for their failure to make peace. At the beginning of his op-ed, Ross recalled a recent conversation he had with a European official sympathetic to the Palestinians. Ross told him that if...

Iran blasted the U.S. Treasury Department’s decision to sanction nine “individuals and entities” yesterday for “their support of Iranian government sanctions evasion efforts and human rights-related abusers,” saying that doing so violated “the good will principles” engendered by the ongoing nuclear negotiations and Joint Plan of Actions (JPOA), Reuters reported...

After failing to get the requisite votes to impose a peace agreement on Israel in the United Nations Security Council, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas signed onto twenty international treaties, including the Rome Statute, VOA News reported today. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed on to 20 international agreements on...