Boycott Backers Busted Omar Barghouti, one of the founders of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, was arrested by Israeli authorities on Monday and charged with tax evasion. Barghouti allegedly hid $700,000 in income from tax authorities over a ten-year period, including unreported income from book royalties and global...

Prompted by the United Nations Human Rights Council’s decision to create a database of Israeli companies to “blacklist,” a bipartisan bill to oppose boycotts of Israel was introduced in the House of Representatives on Thursday. The Israel Anti-Boycott Act is sponsored by Reps. Juan Vargas (D – Calif.), Peter Roskam (R – Ill.), Lee Zeldin...

Western Democracies should join the United States in exerting pressure on the United Nations “to shed its reputation for bloated, ludicrous hypocrisy and restore trust and credibility to international institutions,” former Israeli ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor wrote in Newsweek on Wednesday. Prosor credited newly-installed United Nations Secretary General António Guterres and United States ambassador...

Three Israeli-Chinese artificial intelligence technology centers are to be constructed in Israel and China with an initial investment of $10 million, according to an agreement signed March 20 in China by the University of Haifa, the Hangzhou Wahaha Group, and the Institute of Automation at the Chinese Academy of Sciences....

David Friedman, President Donald Trump’s choice to serve as ambassador to Israel, was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday afternoon. During his confirmation hearing, Friedman explained that his skepticism toward the two-state solution was “due to the Palestinians’ refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state,” the Jewish Journal reported. “The...

An Israeli maker of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication systems raised $30 million in its latest funding round, allowing it to expand its global operations, Globes reported Wednesday. Autotalks has raised $70 million to date, including the latest round. News of the latest investments in the company comes as the United States Department of...