The Jerusalem Post, conveying a report from the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai, today described statements by senior British diplomatic sources revealing that London has been facilitating secret indirect talks between the Obama administration and Hezbollah, a group that is designated as a terrorist organization under U.S. law: Senior British diplomatic sources, quoted in...

A controversy over foreign funding of NGOs that attack Israel – including a Palestinian group that publishes material glamorizing suicide bombers and promoting anti-Semitic libels – has been rekindled by a wide-ranging watchdog group report outlining German funding for such groups. Titled “German Funding for Political Advocacy NGOs Active in...

Announcements of multi-million and even billion-dollar acquisitions of Israeli startups are becoming something of a routine, with Israel’s tech sector being driven in part by a unique environment conducive to civilian-military innovation in general by an internationally recognized environment that nurtures the development of human capital. The Israeli military’s official...

There is an open debate among Turkey observers whether what is often rebuked as Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s majoritarianism – which, in harsher critiques, is characterized as authoritarianism – can be untangled from his very public campaign to erode secularism in Turkish political life. The international community had...

A controversial decision by E.U. foreign ministers to cut off projects with Israeli-Jewish communities beyond Israel’s 1948 armistice lines may face additional complications, as legal scholars are pointing to deep contradictions within E.U. practices. The guidelines regarding those communities have in recent weeks been blasted by top international figures –...

Reports of spiking anti-Semitism in several European countries have analysts again asking whether Europe’s increasingly marked diplomatic hostility toward the Jewish state is a function of something more than geo-strategic and humanitarian evaluations. A recent report in the Jerusalem Post described among other things “outrageous” anti-Semitism in Belgium. A recent...