Senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar said that armed resistance against Israel is not negotiable, according to a report published on the Saudi-backed website Alresalah on Monday. Armed resistance is not a political issue that may be negotiated, said al-Zahhar in a meeting organized by Hamas and the Islamic Jihad in...

An administrator at Federal University of Santa Maria in Brazil sent out an urgent request for information on all Israeli students and faculty members at the institution, the Inside Higher Ed reported today. The university said it was gathering information to comply with Brazil’s version of a public records request — in...

In an essay published Wednesday in the Times of Israel, Times of Israel founding editor David Horovitz stated that President Barack Obama does not understand the concerns of the Israeli people, despite Obama’s claims to the contrary. Horovitz stated that he endorses “every word” Obama has said about resolving the conflict with the...

A Swedish parliamentary committee claimed that the country’s recognition of Palestine last year violated the nation’s constitution, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. On Tuesday, the Riksdag’s Committee on the Constitution published its annual paper [Swedish], which lists several instances in which the center-left government of Prime Minister Stefan Loefven...

Three rockets fired from Gaza landed in Israel today, causing no injuries. The rockets came on the fourth day of a five-day security drill to make sure Israeli security systems work in case of rocket attacks from Hezbollah or Hamas. The Times of Israel reported: The Israel Defense Forces said two rockets...

None of the issues that last year’s Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement were supposed to address have been solved, according to a policy brief written yesterday by Grant Rumley, a research analyst for the Foundation of Defense of Democracies. The decision of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to join a unity government...