The national director of the Anti-Defamation League has criticized the organizers of the U.S. Universities Debating Championship, which took place in Atlanta last weekend, for making student competitors debate the motion “This House Believes That Violence By Palestinians Against Israeli Civilian Targets Is Justified.” 1/3 Pained by #USUDC debate on killing Israeli civilians. Would...

By failing to take a stand against the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, Palestinian leaders have “lost the Arab depth, their credibility and their narrative,” Hanin Ghaddar, the editor of the Lebanese news site NOW, wrote in a commentary Thursday. Ghaddar observed that Assad and Hezbollah, both of which are backed...

Jamal Hakrush was appointed deputy commissioner of Israel’s national police, the first Muslim to be appointed to the force’s second-highest rank, The Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich praised Hakrush at his initiation ceremony, and called for more Arabs to join the police force. Hakrush, a native of...

An Iranian helicopter pilot who defected to Turkey last year has threatened to move to Israel and work against the Iranian government if it does not stop harassing his wife and son, the Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. Maj. Ahmad-Reza Khosravi, who flew for the Iranian Security Service, told the Times that he fled Iran after...

More people were able to read and write Hebrew during the First Temple period (around 600 BCE) in what is now Israel than was previously believed, a new study has surmised. An analysis published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences used a combination of archaeology, Jewish history, and computer...

Florida’s recently signed law against anti-Israel boycotts is a “major blow against anti-Israel bigotry and discrimination,” The Israel Project’s CEO and President Josh Block wrote in an op-ed published Wednesday in the Orlando Sun Sentinel. The Israel Project publishes The Tower. The legislation, SB 86, restricts the state from investing in companies...