Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ debunked allegation that “certain rabbis in Israel” issued a call to poison Palestinian wells is “reminiscent of age-old anti-Semitic stereotypes,” Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, said in a statement released Thursday. Abbas repeated the discredited charge, propagated by the PA’s Foreign Ministry earlier this week, while addressing the European...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas blamed Israel for global terrorism and repeated a discredited canard that Jews are seeking to poison Palestinian water while addressing the European Union parliament a day after Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Abbas also refused to meet Rivlin while both men were in Brussels....

In the wake of a debunked claim last week that Israel had cut off water supplies to Palestinians in the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority’s Foreign Ministry claimed that a rabbi authorized Jews to poison wells belonging to Palestinians, The Jerusalem Post reported Monday. In a statement, the PA’s Foreign Ministry cited a...

An Israeli minister is advocating for the construction of an artificial island off the coast of the Gaza Strip in order to facilitate the import of goods to the territory, the Associated Press reported Monday. Yisrael Katz, Israel’s transportation minister and one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s top deputies, told reporters that he...

The mother of a Palestinian who murdered two Israelis in the Old City of Jerusalem last October was photographed flashing a victory sign when revisiting the site of the deadly attack, Israel Hayom reported Thursday. Suhair Halabi has been outspoken in her support of her son Muhannad, a member of Palestinian...

A senior Hamas official with extensive knowledge of the terrorist organization’s network of tunnels has surrendered to Israel, Haaretz reported Tuesday, citing reports from Fatah-affiliated websites. Bassam Mahmoud Baraka, the son of a Hamas-affiliated religious judge, is said to have turned himself in to Israeli authorities at the border fence between Gaza...