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,...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has ignored a request to grant a trial to an Iranian opposition leader and reformer who has been held under house arrest since the contested 2009 presidential elections, The New York Times reported on Thursday. Rouhani, who assumed office in 2013, has been called a reformer and previously...

By failing to take a stand against the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, Palestinian leaders have “lost the Arab depth, their credibility and their narrative,” Hanin Ghaddar, the editor of the Lebanese news site NOW, wrote in a commentary Thursday. Ghaddar observed that Assad and Hezbollah, both of which are backed...

If Bashar al-Assad and senior members of the Syrian leadership are ever captured and brought to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and charged with war crimes, the evidence being gathered by an obscure investigative agency could be crucial to establishing their guilt. In the newest issue of The New Yorker, Ben Taub documented the efforts of the Commission...

On the heels of Air France’s announcement that female cabin crew could opt out of flights to Iran when the airline resumes the route later this month, gay stewards are requesting that same right. In a petition addressed to both Air France CEO Frédéric Cagey and French Transport Minister Alain Vidalies, the stewards asked that gay staff be exempt...