The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a measure on Thursday objecting to last month’s anti-Israel United Nations Security Council resolution. House Resolution 11, which passed 342-80, condemned Security Council Resolution 2334, which called Israel’s activities in eastern Jerusalem and other areas captured in 1967 “a flagrant violation under international law.”...

One day after last month’s vote in the United Nations Security Council to condemn Israeli activities in areas it conquered in 1967, the world body’s General Assembly approved funding to create a database of companies that do business in those areas, which some fear could be used to create a “blacklist,” Fox News...

Iranian political prisoners are increasingly engaging in hunger strikes as a “last resort” to bring attention to their plight, researchers from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) reported in a policy brief on Wednesday. One prisoner, Arash Sadeghi, was sentenced to 19 years in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison for “assembly and collusion against national...

A conference in Jordan last month explored the future of Hebrew as an academic subject in the Arab world, reflecting many Arab thinkers’ growing acknowledgment of the importance of studying and understanding their Jewish neighbors. A closing document developed at the conference, which was held at the Center for Israel Studies...

Textbooks used in United Nations-run schools in the West Bank did not include Israel in their maps or mention Jewish historical or cultural ties to the country, a recent study has found. Professors Arnon Gross and Roni Shaked of the Harry Truman Research Institute at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem found...

The Israeli left should support efforts to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which are both “justified” and would help bolster its legitimacy in the eyes of the Israeli public, Don Futterman argued in Haaretz on Tuesday. Futterman, the Israel Program Director for the U.S.-based Moriah Fund, noted that the Jewish nation...