Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan boasted that his nation has the “world’s freest press” Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported Saturday. “Nowhere in the world is the press freer than it is in Turkey. I’m very sure of myself when I say this,” he said in a televised speech to a conference in...

Over 200 Jews from Ukraine arrived in Israel this week, fleeing the country’s civil war, The Washington Post reported Thursday, bringing the yearly total up to more than 5,000. The Post focused its report on a family, identified only by their first names, “Yulia, Kostiantyn and their daughter, Valerie.” So...

Nepalese migrant workers charged with building venues for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar died at a rate of one every two days this year, according to a report in The Guardian: Human rights organisations have accused Qatar of dragging its feet on the modest [workplace safety] reforms [it has promised], saying not...

The AMCHA Initiative, an organization dedicated to “investigate, document, educate about, and combat antisemitic behavior on college and university campuses,” announced Monday that the University of California system had affirmed that professors were prohibited from promoting anti-Israel boycotts in class. The affirmation came in the form of a letter from the university’s...

With the assistance of American airstrikes, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters have pushed Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) forces back in Sinjar, securing much of the city and freeing hundreds of Yazidis, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. In one of the most successful counterattacks against the extremists since the group...

In Israel for a conference, Danny Cohen, the director of the BBC said yesterday that the rising anti-Semitism endangered the future of Jews in the United Kingdom. The Times of Israel reports: “I’ve never felt so uncomfortable being a Jew in the UK as I’ve felt in the last 12...