JNS.org – Over the years, I’ve spoken at or attended a number of academic conferences on the subject of rising anti-Semitism. Parleys like these are essential for boosting our understanding of why, seven decades after the end of the World War II, the taboo around anti-Semitic invective—whether directed at Jews...

The head of Iran’s armed forces said that the Islamic Republic seeks to have a “mighty presence” in Latin America in order to assert its naval power, the Tasnim news agency reported on Saturday. Maj. Gen. Ataollah Salehi told reporters in the port city of Bandar Abbas that Iran plans to modernize its navy in the new...

235 members of Columbia’s faculty, or perhaps more by now, have signed a letter to the Columbia Board of Trustees urging them to reject calls to divest from companies doing business with Israel. The signers of this letter have defended a core value of the American university. Regardless of where...

The Obama administration’s reported plan to provide Iran with access to the U.S. dollar and American financial markets is meeting bipartisan opposition in Congress. U.S. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are arguing that “the White House has backtracked on commitments made to Congress last summer to maintain financial pressure...

One year after Iran and world powers announced the framework for the nuclear deal, “the Iran we have long known—hostile, expansionist, violent—is alive and well, and as dangerous as ever,”  Yousef al-Otaiba, the United Arab Emirates’ ambassador to the United States, wrote in an op-ed published Monday in The Wall Street...

Oberlin College’s failure to address the concerns of Jewish students who face a “persistent hostile campus atmosphere” threatens to “compromise its legacy of academic rigor and social justice,” Melissa Landa, president of the Oberlin chapter of Alums for Campus Fairness, wrote in the Oberlin Review on Friday. Concern over reports of anti-Semitic incidents on campus...