Seven hackers with ties to the Iranian government were charged by the Justice Department on Thursday with carrying out cyber-attacks on dozens of American banks and a New York dam. According to the FBI, the suspects were employed by private security firms working on behalf of the Iranian government, including the Islamic...

Experts on the Iran-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah discussed its increased dominance in Lebanon at a House hearing on Tuesday, including how the group’s activities and strategies increase the likelihood of a future, more deadly war with Israel. “Hezbollah has made Lebanon complicit both financially and economically, as well as militarily because of all...

A Palestinian sheikh called Jews “the most despicable of Allah’s creatures” and urged their annihilation during an address at the al-Aqsa Mosque that was posted to the internet last week. Sheikh Ali Abu Ahmad began by slamming a Jordanian plan to install security cameras at al-Aqsa this week. Jordan’s Islamic Affairs...

The Israel-developed Facebook app Safety Check helped users let friends and family know that they were safe following the deadly attacks in Belgium on Tuesday. At least 30 people were murdered and scores of others wounded in back-to-back bombings of the Brussels airport and subway. The current version of the social network tool, which was also...

The Geneva-based organization UN Watch blasted the United Nations Human Rights Council for appointing Michael Lynk, a Canadian academic with a record of anti-Israel statements, to be the council’s rapporteur to investigate “Israel’s violations of the principles and bases of international law.” A statement by UN Watch on Wednesday charged that Lynk “fails...

There has been an “increase in hostility” at Vassar College due to tensions over anti-Israel activism that has often devolved into anti-Semitism, a Vassar professor wrote in the Forward on Monday. Michaela Pohl, a professor of Russian history who is not Jewish, noted that student activists single out Israel for criticism while remaining silent about...