After allowing a dual British-Iranian citizen a furlough from jail to reunite with her four-year-old daughter, the Iranian regime ordered her back to jail after three days, CNN reported Sunday. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was separated from her toddler daughter Gabriella, and arrested in April...

The Iranian regime is hunting Iranian Kurds from Iran, who fled the Islamic Republic’s repression to find refuge in the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq and helped defeat ISIS, Seth J. Frantzman reported in The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday. The Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) consists of a small group...

British novelist J. K. Rowling stepped up her defense of Jews against anti-Semitism on Sunday in a heated Twitter exchange with Simon Maginn, an author and supporter of Labour leader Jeremy Corby, The Algemeiner reported. In a tweet, Maginn had called Jewish outrage over Corbyn’s 2013 comments indicating that “Zionists”...

Israeli marine biologist Shimrit Perkol-Finkel, head of Tel Aviv-based ECOncrete, was selected as an awardee in the WE Empower UN SDG Challenge, the first global business competition for women entrepreneurs who are advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals.  The WE Empower Challenge honors five female entrepreneurs, one from each of the five...

The United States announced that it would cut $200 million in annual aid from the Palestinian Authority (PA), The Jerusalem Post reported Friday. The impetus for reducing the aid, according to a State Department spokesman, was the result of a review “to ensure these funds are spent in accordance with...

National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) announced that it will host its eighth annual conference at the University of California, Los Angeles, to remind students that Zionism “can be destroyed,” Shiri Moshe reported in The Algemeiner on Wednesday. The conference will take place on November 16-18 under the theme...

FIFA’s disciplinary committee has sanctioned the head of the Palestinian Football Association, after determining that statements from Jibril Rajoub incited hatred and violence, in violation of Article 53 of the international football organization’s disciplinary code. FIFA said Rajoub had been handed a 12-month match suspension and a $20,000 fine, “following...

Israeli athletes garnered a total of 14 medals in international Paralympic competitions so far this month. Ami Dadon won gold medals in the 100-meter men’s freestyle and men’s 150-meter individual medley at the World Para Swimming Allianz European Championships in Dublin. The 17-year-old swimmer also won silver medals in the men’s 50-meter...

With great fanfare, Iran unveiled what it called its first “indigenous” fighter jet outfitted with “advanced avionics,” this week. Top military officials were there for the unveiling of the Kowsar, as was President Hassan Rouhani, who even posed in the cockpit of the plane. It didn’t take long before the...

The Labour Party was drawn into yet another anti-Semitism scandal on Friday, after it emerged that leader Jeremy Corbyn had accused British “Zionists” of having “no sense of English irony” despite having lived in the UK “all their lives,” The Jewish Chronicle reported Friday. In a speech at a Hamas-advertised...