Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D – N.Y.) on Monday slammed boycotts of Israel and called anti-Zionism a “modern brand of anti-Semitism” in a speech on the Senate floor. Schumer praised French President Emmanuel Macron for identifying anti-Zionism—the denial of the Jewish people’s right to self-determination—as “a reinvention of anti-Semitism” over the...

The Trump administration told Congress on Monday that while Iran has met the conditions necessary to be recertified as complying with the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal, it is violating “the spirit” of the pact through its destabilizing behavior across the Middle East. President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Rex...

An English-language press release issued on Tuesday by the Islamist terror organization Hamas to protest the temporary closing of the Temple Mount by Israeli authorities following an attack there on Friday contained an unexpected, and possibly unintended, revelation. The Temple Mount was reopened Monday with additional security measures to prevent further violence, including...

Therapix Biosciences of Tel Aviv, a specialty clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing cannabinoid-based drugs, last week signed a memorandum of understanding with California-based CURE Pharmaceutical to enter into a research collaboration with Israel’s Assuta Medical Centers. The two biopharma companies will jointly advance, research, develop and commercialize potential therapeutic products in the...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday denounced the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah’s ongoing military buildup in Lebanon. “I share Israeli concerns on the arming of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon,” Macron told reporters after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Paris. “We seek Lebanon’s stability with due regard to all...

The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas called on its followers to wage a “religious war” against Israel on Saturday, shortly after security forces temporarily closed the Temple Mount following a deadly attack there. The Islamist group’s spokesman, Fawzi Barhoum, called for an “uprising” to attack Israeli soldiers and residents of the West Bank, the...

Following Friday’s deadly terror attack on the Temple Mount, in which two Israeli police officers were killed, the White House issued a statement of support of Israeli actions to secure the holy site. The statement, attributed to White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, said that the administration “strongly condemns the terror attack” and...

The United Kingdom-based Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) reported Sunday that anti-Semitic hate crimes in the country have surged 44% since 2014, making 2016 the worst year on record. However, in only 1.4% of cases was the attack followed by prosecution—just 15 cases last year. One in 10 anti-Semitic crimes were...

Israel has gradually reopened the Temple Mount for Muslim prayer after the shooting attack on Friday that killed two Israeli policemen. Israeli Police opened two gates to Muslim worshipers at 13:00 on Sunday with another three opening Monday. The Temple Mount was closed for 48 hours after Friday’s shooting attack,...

At a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the Nazi deportation of Jews from Paris on Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron vowed, “We will not surrender to anti-Zionism, because it is a reinvention of anti-Semitism.” Macron, who recognized the French government’s complicity in the deportation of 13,000 French Jews on...