Last month, while visiting refugee camps in southern Algeria, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described Morocco’s 1975 annexation of Western Sahara as “occupation.” In doing so, he broke an unspoken UN rule. Allegations of occupation are not used when describing China’s relationship with Tibet, nor Russia’s relationship with Ukraine, nor...

In what is likely a first in the long and protracted history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Twitter was used to reject the possibility of peace negotiations. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invited Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday to meet immediately without preconditions to discuss peace and an end to the current wave of Palestinian...

A United Nations office has coordinated the donation of millions of dollars to NGOs that are highly critical of Israel, and has helped those groups disseminate their information, a new report by the watchdog group NGO Monitor has documented. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is responsible for “bringing...

When disaster strikes, Israel’s government, army, and aid agencies are always among the first to send material and expert assistance, whether it’s earthquakes in Haiti and Nepal, tsunamis in Sri Lanka and Japan, typhoon in the Philippines, or other mass disasters in Turkey, India, Mexico, El Salvador, Greece, Rwanda, Armenia,...

A Stanford student senate hearing on a bill to fight anti-Semitism ended in controversy after one of the senators argued that questioning whether Jews control the government, media, and banks is not anti-Semitic, The Stanford Review reported on Tuesday. The senator’s statement preceded the adoption of a series of amendments that largely gutted...

An Iranian general warned the United States not to cross any “red lines” on the Islamic Republic’s ballistic missile program, The Jerusalem Post reported on Monday. “The White House should know that defense capacities and missile power, specially at the present juncture where plots and threats are galore, is among the...