A Democratic lawmaker from Chicago who called Rev. Louis Farrakhan “an outstanding human being,” lacks “courage,” a spokesman from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Sunday. The ADL criticism was prompted by two interviews in which Rep. Danny Davis (D – Ill.) praised the Nation of...

A bipartisan group of United States lawmakers sent a letter on Tuesday to United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions urging him to compel Al Jazeera, the Middle Eastern news outlet owned by the Qatari government, to register as a state-controlled agent in accordance with the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Al...

Israeli officials are increasingly concerned about President Abbas’s health and the consequences for stability in the Palestinian Authority. Writing in Haaretz, Amos Harel said that details about Abbas’ health have been shared with Israeli political and security officials amid concerns that, “although security cooperation between Israel and the PA continues...

When Gal Granov started his blog, Whisky Israel, in 2009, the community of whisky aficionados in Israel was small, import taxes on the product were heavy, and no Israeli-made whiskies were being produced. It was a time when Granov, a Sabra from Petach Tikvah who had been writing about food, wine...

In an indication of bipartisan support for fixing the nuclear deal with Iran, a top Democratic lawmaker, said that he agreed with a Republican colleague, and favors “renegotiation” to make the deal “permanent,” at the AIPAC Policy Conference on Monday. Rep. Steny Hoyer (D – Md.), the House Democratic Whip, who...

The 2015 nuclear deal between world powers and Iran has to be renegotiated because the accord allows Tehran to develop missiles that can deliver nuclear weapons and evade timely inspections, and eventually “to resume its race toward a nuclear bomb,” two former prime ministers of American-allied countries wrote Monday in an...