In his opening statement at the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s hearing on Palestinian incitement on Thursday, ranking member Rep. Eliot Engel (D – N.Y.) put the onus for the recent escalation of violence in Israel on the Palestinian Authority, saying that “the Palestinians will never get their state on the...

The House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously approved a resolution condemning the Palestinian incitement that has been fueling the latest violence in Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. The non-binding resolution, drafted by Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Florida) and Congressman Ted Deutch (D-Florida), lists a host of statements from PA leadership made...

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) released a video of an armed and masked terrorist threatening Jews and Israel in fluent Hebrew this week, The Times of Israel reported Friday. In the video, which is embedded below, the terrorist addressed the message from ISIS to all Jews, who...

A poll conducted by the influential magazine Condé Nast Traveler ranked Jerusalem’s newly refurbished Waldorf-Astoria hotel as the top hotel in the Middle East and the seventh-best in the world, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Over 128,000 readers took part in the survey. “What an honor! We are thrilled,” the hotel responded on its...

The United Nations has taken disciplinary action against at least 22 employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) who used social media to promote anti-Semitism, the watchdog organization UN Watch reported Thursday. The employees’ misconduct was initially exposed in reports published by the watchdog organization in September and...

More than 150 British artists, including Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, have signed a public letter opposing boycott campaigns against Israel. The group, which also includes Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel and noted historian and BBC presenter Simon Schama, wrote an op-ed in The Guardian criticizing an earlier effort by British artists to refuse...