UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein announced Tuesday that there was strong evidence that Iran-backed Shia militias had committed atrocities in the recent battle to reclaim the Iraqi city of Fallujah from ISIS. More than 900 men and boys from heavily Sunni Fallujah remain missing, and may have been...

On the first leg of his historic trip to Africa on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with the leaders of seven African nations to discuss opportunities for collaboration in the fight against terrorism. The heads of Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Zambia jointly issued a statement...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has decided to cut ties with the Middle East Quartet following the recent publication of the committee’s report on obstacles to Israeli-Palestinian peace, the London-based Arabic newspaper al-Hayat reported Tuesday. The move was ordered by PA President Mahmoud Abbas, who claims that the international group is backing Israel over the Palestinians, according to al-Hayat. The...

The brutal killing last week of American-Israeli teenager Hallel Yaffa Ariel has yet again raised the issue of how the Palestinian Authority’s payments to terrorists encourage the murder of Israelis, Eli Lake wrote for Bloomberg View on Friday. Lake noted that although the recent joint report on Israeli-Palestinian peace talks by the...

A new law preventing the state of Illinois from doing business with entities that boycott Israel has just exposed a major failure of the BDS campaign, Northwestern University Law School professor Eugene Kontorovich explained in Tablet on Thursday. The announcement by global security firm G4S a few months ago that it was selling its...

On July 4, 1976 – 40 years ago today – Israeli commandos carried out a daring raid to rescue over 100 Jewish and Israeli hostages held by Palestinian and German terrorists at the Entebbe airport in Uganda. A week earlier, two terrorists from the Popular Front for the Liberation of...