Two prominent Democratic lawmakers joined a growing number of their Republican colleagues in expressing opposition to the Obama administration’s plan to grant further sanctions relief to Iran, including access to the American banking system and the ability to conduct transactions in U.S. dollars, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link)...

The legal watchdog group Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center has warned the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) that its support of groups that advocate boycotting Israel could cause the fund to be “considered complicit and as a participant in these groups’ illegal activities.” The letter laid out RBF’s questionable funding: The BDS [Boycott, Divestment, and...

Playbuzz, a leading platform for online content engagement and social distribution, today announced it has raised $15 million in new funding, led by Saban Ventures with participation from The Walt Disney Company. Existing investors 83North, Carmel Ventures and FirstTime Ventures also participated in the investment round. Playbuzz — used by...

Erste Group bank, a Vienna-based European banking giant, has become embroiled in controversy over services it is providing to the Austrian branch of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign. “The bank should tell BDS Austria to take its business elsewhere,” Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told...

Describing the seizure of the Syrian city of Palmyra by the forces of President Bashar al-Assad from the Islamic State as a switch “from one tyranny to another,” a refugee from Palmyra called both Assad and ISIS “enemies of normal Syrian people” during an interview published in The Independent on Thursday. Mohamed Alkhateb was studying at a...

A new viral video accuses Israel of tunneling under the Temple Mount in Jerusalem in order to “Judaize” the complex and build the third Temple, The Jerusalem Post reported on Wednesday. The video may further inflame tensions between Israel and the Palestinians by repeating the oft-discredited charge that the al-Aqsa Mosque, which is located on the compound, is in danger....