Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas praised a Jordanian man who was shot while attempting to stab Israeli Border Police officers, calling him a “martyr” in a condolence letter to his family this week. The attacker, Saeed Amro, approached the police officers with a knife at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s...

The Anti-Defamation League expressed its “deep concern” on Tuesday that a new course at the University of California, Berkeley would present students “with blatantly biased views towards Zionism and Israel as fact.” The student-led, one-credit course, called “Palestine: A Settler Colonial Analysis,” derides Zionism—the movement for Jewish national self-determination—as “settler colonialism” and falsely...

The University of California, Berkeley has reinstated a course that aims to examine the history of Israel and the Palestinian territories “through the lens of settler colonialism” on Monday, less than a week after it was suspended over concerns that it amounted to political indoctrination. The one-credit, student-led class, titled...

A preacher at the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem called for the destruction of Moscow and Washington, D.C. in a sermon last Wednesday. Palestinian Sheikh Abdallah Ayed claimed that “Allah has promised both places to us. Allah promised the Prophet Muhammad that Islam would rule the entire land.” He called for...

A Hamas militant issued a thinly-veiled threat against Americans after the State Department officially designated a Hamas leader as being an international terrorist, The Jerusalem Post reported on Sunday. The State Department’s designated Fathi Hammad as an international terrorist on Friday, saying that he used his position as a former interior minister “to coordinate...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, 81, recently refused a request from four Arab states to name a successor because he will only pick someone who will preserve his sons’ business empire, longtime Arab affairs correspondent Yoni Ben Menachem wrote Wednesday for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Abbas rejected a request from Egypt, Jordan,...