The University of California, Berkeley has suspended a scheduled anti-Israel course because its facilitator failed to ensure that the syllabus lived up to the school’s academic standards, the office of the chancellor said in an e-mail on Wednesday. The office of Chancellor Nicholas Dirks explained that the proposed class, “Palestine: A Settler Colonial Analysis,” did not undergo “a sufficient...

One of Israel’s most prominent authors said on Tuesday that advocating against Israel’s very existence is where “anti-Zionism becomes anti-Semitism.” “I can tell you exactly where I draw the line. If people call Israel nasty, I to some degree agree. If people call Israel the devil incarnated, I think they are obsessed –...

Iran threatened to shoot down two American planes flying in international airspace in the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, the latest example of Tehran’s increased aggression in the Persian Gulf. The American planes disregarded the warning and eventually landed safely. “We wanted to test the Iranian reaction,” a U.S. defense official...

The husband of a British-Iranian charity worker who was sentenced to five years in prison by an Iranian court last week said that his wife is being held as a “bargaining chip,” The Evening Standard reported on Tuesday. Richard Ratcliffe, who was recently allowed to speak to his wife, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, explained that she feels “desperate” as “there’s...

An editor of Newsweek Middle East launched into a Twitter tirade invoking several anti-Semitic tropes late last week, including that Jews are greedy and are not descended from biblical Hebrews, and therefore have no historical connection to Israel. After the magazine was criticized by pro-Israel bloggers last week for creating an inaccurate documentary video about...

After nearly a year of negotiations, Israel and the United States have signed a record $38 billion, 10-year military aid package. The deal is “the single largest military assistance package—with any country—in American history,” American ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro said earlier this week. The current U.S.-Israel military aid agreement, which expires in 2018,...