The Israel Project (TIP) made available today a range of resources highlighting the accomplishments – and, as importantly, the ongoing legacy – of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The Tower’s own obituary is here, and the Tower Magazine’s more in-depth look at the Israeli leader’s life is here. Josh...

Al Jazeera’s story on the death of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon leads with two quotes, one from sitting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and one from Fatah senior official Jibril Rajoub. Netanyahu’s quote is circumspect and expresses “deep sorrow.” The quote from Rajoub, less so: But a senior Palestinian...

Ariel Sharon – the 11th prime minister of Israel, and a man who dominated the Jewish state’s political scene first as a pertinacious force from the right and eventually as a heterodox diplomat who oversaw broad Israeli territorial concessions – died today, eight years after slipping into a coma in...

Anti-Israel academics advocating boycotts of the Jewish state are increasingly at risk of becoming punchlines, with prominent commentators and scholars from across the ideological spectrum accusing backers of the so-called boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement not just of hypocrisy but also of incoherence and absurdity. The American Studies Association (ASA)...

Reports suggesting that Secretary of State John Kerry is frustrated by the refusal of Palestinian negotiators to acknowledge Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people in the context of a final status agreement – which coalesced over the weekend with a Telegraph report saying as much in as many words – continued to...

Comments made last Friday by chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat – in which Erekat accused Israel of poisoning former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and expressed concerns that Jerusalem would similarly kill sitting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas – became fodder for a tense exchange at today’s State Department briefing, with journalists pressing Deputy Spokesperson Marie...