Iran has sentenced four journalists to jail on charges of subverting national security, their lawyers told reporters on Tuesday. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps announced last November that they had arrested “several members of an infiltration network linked to hostile Western governments.” The suspects “were working in the country’s media...

JNS.org – To understand the significance of the newly announced legal challenge against the American Studies Association’s academic boycott of Israel, we need to go back around 18 months. It has been that long since the anti-Zionist fanatic Steven Salaita left the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under a cloud. Salaita,...

The political war against the legitimacy of Israel and the Jewish state continues in many forms, including through the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of Palestinian People (CEIRPP). This attack was launched in the General Assembly on November 10, 1975, as part of the same...

Former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton rejected the idea of having the United Nations impose a peace deal on Israel and the Palestinians in an interview published Monday in the New York Jewish Week. Gary Rosenblatt, editor of the Jewish week, wrote that the positions Clinton shared in the interview...

Georgia has become the sixth state to pass legislation preventing the government from contracting with individuals or businesses that boycott the state of Israel or companies in Israeli-controlled territories. The bipartisan bill passed in the state House by a 95-71 vote on March 22, and by a 41-8 vote in the Senate two...

Cyclone Winston dealt a devastating blow to the South Pacific island nation of Fiji on February 20, 2016. The worst cyclone in Fiji’s history resulted in the deaths of more than 40 people and damaged or destroyed an estimated 32,000 homes. In all, the lives of some 350,000 people have...