The Qatar-owned TV station Al Jazeera America (AJAM) is the target of a lawsuit filed by a former executive, Shannon High-Bassalik, alleging that the network discriminated against women and non-Arabs and promoted anti-Israel bias in its reporting, Politico reported Thursday. In her lawsuit, High-Bassalik, who has also worked at CNN, MSNBC...

A rocket that was fired into Israel, setting off alerts in the country’s south, fell short and landed in Hamas-ruled Gaza, the Associated Press reported today. Sirens wailed in some areas warning of the attack late Thursday night and the military initially said it had hit the area of southern...

Last month’s unsuccessful attempt by the Palestinian Authority to suspend Israel from FIFA, the governing body of international soccer, is part of a broader anti-Israel campaign being orchestrated by Qatar, according to a paper published Tuesday by Pinhas Inbari of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Inbari explained that Qatar supports Palestinian Football Association head...

Palestinian schoolchildren are taught that all of Israel is “occupied” and that a future state of Palestine will replace Israel, according to a report published today by the NGO Palestinian Media Watch. Palestinian school children are indoctrinated with the message that there is no Israel but only “Palestine.” Young boys at...

The United States has cut funding to a program “intended [to] foster an independent moderate Shiite voice” in Lebanon, leading critics to fault the move as an effort to appease Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Tuesday. The Hayya Bina program in question was funded through the International Republican Institute,...

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...