A leading activist in Florida denounced the campaign to boycott an international LGBTQ film festival that took place in Tel Aviv last week, calling on the “LGBTQ and progressive ally communities” to take a stand “against censoring, and against anti-semitism,” in an op-ed published Saturday in The Miami Herald. James Moon,...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday met personally with ten African heads of state in Liberia, where he was the first non-African to deliver the keynote speech at the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) summit. Among the leaders Netanyahu met were Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo and Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita....

The leader of the band Radiohead, which is scheduled to make its ninth trip to Israel next month, blasted proponents of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign as “offensive” and “patronizing in the extreme” in an interview published Friday in Rolling Stone magazine. “I’ll be totally honest with you: this has been...

Nevada on Friday became the 20th state to adopt legislation prohibiting state entities from contracting with companies that boycott Israel. A day after Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval signed Senate Bill 26 into law, the Kansas state senate passed similar legislation by a three to one margin. Christians United for Israel, which...

Saudi Arabia and three other Arab states have severed diplomatic and transport links with Qatar as a result of its support for Islamist groups, deepening the split between Gulf nations. Bahrain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) joined Saudi Arabia in the announcement that involves withdrawing all diplomatic staff...

Next Year in Jerusalem? President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a waiver delaying for six months any plan to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. While the Jerusalem Embassy Act requiring the relocation was overwhelmingly passed by both houses of Congress in 1995, all three of Trump’s predecessors have availed themselves of a...