Yesterday the IDF published a special report on how Hamas turned every resident of Gaza into a human shield. All of the instances mentioned in the report have been seen before, but this is the first time all of the exhibits are in one place. New Declassified Report Exposes Hamas...

In Geneva yesterday, Breen Tahseen, an Iraqi diplomat and son of the leader of the Yazidi people, called for international action to halt the genocide of his people at the hand of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Agence France‑Presse reports: Speaking to reporters in Geneva as a...

In an op-ed published Saturday in the Washington Post, Natan Sharansky, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel argued that bringing international law to bear against Israel for defending its citizens in the absence of accepted international standards is a “double standard” not a “higher standard.” Sharansky, a former refusenik...

Wisam was born in northern Iraq 17 months ago with life-threatening congenital heart disease. His family is one of 200,000 adherents of the Yazidi faith who have escaped to the mountains near their hometown of Sinjar under persecution by the Islamic State, the al-Qaeda terrorist group offshoot formerly known as...

William Schabas, who was appointed Monday by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to head an investigation into Israel’s conduct during Operation Protective Edge, argued in a blog post last year that the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government would not constitute a war crime. Schabas argued...

The terrorist group Hamas has executed dozens of workers responsible for its tunnel system in the past few weeks, according to a report in the Israeli news site Mako (Hebrew link), and expanded upon by the Times of Israel. The tunnelers, many of whom constructed the tunnels over the course of months, would...