A United Nations commission ruled on Thursday that ISIS is committing genocide against the persecuted Yazidi religious minority in Syria, The New York Times reported. “Genocide has occurred and is ongoing”, Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, the chairman of the UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, told reporters. “ISIS has...

Israel was selected on Monday to lead a permanent committee of the United Nations General Assembly for the first time in its history. “This is a historic achievement for the State of Israel. We broke the glass ceiling,” Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said. While Israel has headed some minor...

While human rights are violated worldwide and thousands have been killed in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen, only Israel “has its record inspected at every single session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC),” the Associated Press reported Monday. From all the nations in the world, only Israel is subject to a permanent agenda...

JNS.org – A year ago, the world of Jewish academia suffered an irreplaceable loss with the passing of Prof. Robert Wistrich, the head of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Wistrich died in Rome on May 19, 2015, shortly after...

A prominent Canadian-Iranian scholar who was studying women in the Muslim world has been arrested in Iran, highlighting the continued risk that dual nationals face when they travel to the Islamic Republic. Homa Hoodfar, an anthropologist at Concordia University in Montreal, was first detained in March 10 by an intelligence unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, The...

Iran has suspended one of its national soccer stars for wearing SpongeBob SquarePants-themed pants, The Guardian reported Wednesday. Goalkeeper Sosha Makani, a member of Iran’s 2014 World Cup team who plays for Persepolis in Tehran, has been banned from the sport for six months by the committee in charge of monitoring...