A law designed to fight on campus anti-Semitism passed as part of South Carolina’s state budget late Thursday, The Post and Courier reported. The law was inserted into the budget by Sen. Larry Grooms. Gov. Henry McMaster, who supported the law, is expected to sign the budget. Last year, a...

As we mark Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, we realize that this year is different than recent years. We have seen a drastic rise in anti-Semitism, nationalism, and xenophobia. Along with this, we are seeing a normalization of this behavior. A study released on Holocaust Remembrance Day revealed that a...

Right before the annual Holocaust Memorial Day (commemorated on April 12 this year), Yad Vashem announced a cooperation agreement with Israeli high-tech startup Wibbitz to transform Holocaust stories, now documented in texts and sound clips, into dynamic video clips using a special artificial intelligence platform. The Jerusalem-based Holocaust Martyrs’ and...

Iran’s liaison between the nation’s Supreme Leader and its powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force threatened that “Tel Aviv and Haifa will be razed to the ground” by Iran, if the Islamic Republic is given a pretext, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Thursday is  commemorated as Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel....

Israel’s Labor Party announced on Tuesday that it had cut all formal ties with the leader of the British Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, over his “hostility” towards the Jewish community, Reuters reported. Corbyn is facing allegations of turning a blind eye to rampant anti-Semitism and has failed to take adequate...

A German company involved in Syrian chemical attacks has defied a warning from the United States and continues trading with Iran, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday. A Syrian photographer had found parts made by German company Krempel in Iranian-produced chemical rockets that were used in chemical...

Porsche Digital GmbH, the digital division of German carmaker Porsche AG, has purchased a minority stake in Israeli artificial intelligence startup Anagog in order to help expand its digital innovation portfolio, Porsche said in a recent announcement. The financial details of the investment were not revealed. “The Israeli startup scene...

Re-imposing sanctions on the Central Bank of Iran, which were lifted as part of the 2015 nuclear deal, while the rial has recently lost nearly half of its value, could “inflict serious damage on Tehran’s economy,” two sanctions experts wrote Wednesday in The Hill. Richard Goldberg and Saeed Ghasseminejad, respectively...

Saying that it holds Hamas “responsible for all occurrences in Gaza,” the IDF struck at several military targets belonging to the terrorist organization in Gaza following the explosion of an improvised explosive device (IED) near the border fence, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. The IDF released a statement on...

Qatar’s government is still promoting Friday sermons by extremist preachers, who engage in anti-Semitic incitement, at its state-controlled Grand Mosque and on state-owned television, David A. Weinberg warned in a post on the Anti-Defamation League’s blog on Tuesday. In a sermon in December 2017, preacher Muhammed al-Muraikhi told the Muslim world that...