The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a measure on Thursday objecting to last month’s anti-Israel United Nations Security Council resolution. House Resolution 11, which passed 342-80, condemned Security Council Resolution 2334, which called Israel’s activities in eastern Jerusalem and other areas captured in 1967 “a flagrant violation under international law.”...

The Democratic Party’s top congressional leaders have continued to criticize the Obama administration for its refusal last month to veto a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israeli activities in eastern Jerusalem. That number has now grown, with more than 30 Democratic representatives and 10 senators (a quarter of the Democratic Senate delegation) cosponsoring motions in their chambers condemning the UN...

In one of its first votes in the new session of Congress, the House of Representatives has scheduled a Thursday vote on a bipartisan resolution condemning the United Nations Security Council resolution that criticized Israeli activities in Jerusalem and the West Bank. The bill is co-sponsored by both parties’ leaders in House Foreign...

High-ranking members of the Democratic Party, who have in the past week harshly criticized the Obama administration for its refusal to veto an anti-Israel resolution at the United Nations Security Council, doubled down on their criticisms after hearing Secretary of State John Kerry’s Wednesday speech criticizing Israeli settlement activity. Sen. Chuck Schumer...

In a more than hour-long speech Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry laid out six “principles” for what he believed a just and successful two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian question would look like. In doing so, he also pledged that while other countries might support a unilateral move toward Palestinian statehood at...

In a surprising rebuke, the House of Representatives’ second-leading Democrat publicly and preemptively criticized Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday, stating that Kerry’s scheduled speech on Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations should not break with the longstanding U.S. policy that terms for an agreement can only come through bilateral negotiations. The statement by House Minority Whip...