Two Israeli Border Police officers were wounded early Monday morning after a resident of an Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem attacked them with a knife. The attack occurred near the Lion’s Gate entrance to Jerusalem’s Old City at around 4:00 AM local time. The assailant is reported to have entered a...

Is Nikki Haley the Real Secretary of State? New Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has taken a low profile since being sworn in; his office has released statements, but he has been criticized for failing to hold press conferences or otherwise speaking to media. On the other hand, Nikki Haley, the...

One of the key tactics of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign is to make claims that are, at best, overstated—and in many cases provably false—in order to bolster their appearance of success. For example, organizers claimed in 2010 that the American rock band the Pixies had cancelled...

The campaign on university campuses to boycott Israel poses a threat to academic freedom, a report (.pdf) published Thursday by an academic nonprofit group stated. The report, compiled by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, showed how the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign has stifled academic freedom, a value that the...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had “internalized” his warning that Iran must not be allowed to fill any vacuum left by the Islamic State in Syria. “One of the things that we are fighting against together is radical Islamic terrorism,” Netanyahu said before meeting with the...

The lower house of Switzerland’s legislature passed a bill on Wednesday that would force the government to stop funding organizations that promote boycotts of Israel, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post. The measure, which was introduced at the National Council by Christian Imark, a deputy from the conservative Swiss People’s...