A wide range of Jewish organizations in both the U.S. and Europe criticized Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government for announcing that it will follow the European Union’s controversial guidelines to label Israeli goods from the West Bank and the Golan Heights, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. Calling...

ISIS is increasingly using human shields to deter airstrikes conducted by an U.S.-led coalition, CBS reported on Friday. Fighters are even using children as escorts while maneuvering in the street in order to exploit U.S. rules of engagement, which are intended to avoid collateral damage. … By barricading themselves with civilians...

The world’s interest in reaching a nuclear deal with Iran has compelled it to ignore the regime’s extensive human rights abuses, leaving its many “political prisoners, torture victims and persecuted ethnic minorities with little hope of any respite,” Rahim Hamid wrote in The Telegraph on Tuesday. Hamid is a member...

Payam Feili, an openly gay Iranian poet who faced intense persecution in his country over his sexual orientation and political views, arrived in Israel this Sunday to promote the Hebrew translation of his book Three Reasons and attend the premier of a play based on the work, The Times of...

The State Department acknowledged that it had advance knowledge of the execution of a dual Iranian-American citizen by Iran last month, the Washington Free Beacon reported Tuesday. The organization Iran Human Rights, citing “confirmed sources,” disclosed that Iranian authorities hanged Hamid Samiee on November 4 for the alleged murder of...

On Monday, Israel commemorated the 20th century expulsion of ancient Jewish communities from across the Arab and Muslim world, Israel’s i24 news channel reported. The annual commemoration was first held last year, following the passage of a law by the Knesset designating November 30 as the day to memorialize the 850,000 Jews who were...