A federal judge ruled Friday that a lawsuit against the leadership of the American Studies Association (ASA) for endorsing an academic boycott of Israel may go forward. The lawsuit, which was filed a year ago, claimed that the ASA had acted outside the scope of its charter by approving a resolution...

Palestinian Authority textbooks for the school year of 2016 doubled down on demonizing Israel and praising “martyrdom,” a report released this month by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) concluded. The report assessed the contents of textbooks in the PA school system ranging from the...

Guatemalan government ministries – including the Defense Ministry, Home Front Command, fire service, police and emergency responders – recently turned to the Israeli ZAKA International Rescue Unit to ask for training sessions. Guatemala is facing considerable challenges in the emergency field and is looking to train its emergency responders in...

Israeli scientists have developed a better way to detect polio outbreaks quickly in countries where the virus has effectively been eradicated, Ben-Gurion University announced in a statement Monday. There are two ways to detect an outbreak in a country that is considered polio-free. One is to wait until there is a reported...

Israeli leaders strongly condemned on Tuesday a suspected chemical weapons attack carried out by the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. “We, as a people who survived the greatest of atrocities and rose from the ashes to be a strong and secure nation, we will do all we can to continue...

Israel’s Ministry of Defense announced on Monday that it confiscated 30 wetsuits camouflaged as sportswear that were believed to be destined for Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Similar to an incident last year, the wetsuits were on their way to the Hamas-ruled enclave when they were intercepted at the Kerem Shalom...

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said the demonstrated anti-Israel bias at the UN was her “biggest surprise” upon taking the post in an interview with Fox News on Sunday. “They’re not talking about Syria, they’re not talking about Iran,” Haley said of the monthly Security Council meetings devoted...

The world’s longest underwater gas pipeline, which would connect Israel to Europe, is set to be operational by 2025, Israeli and European officials announced on Monday. “The unprecedented $6 billion-$7 billion plan in question involves building a privately-funded, 2,200-km deep-sea pipeline linking Israeli and Cypriot gas to the Greek and...

The Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah has emerged as the “one clear winner” from the destruction of the Syrian civil war, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. “Hezbollah,” the Journal observed, “is today stronger, more independent and in command of a new Syrian militia that its officials say is ready to...

At least 58 people were killed in a suspected chemical attack carried out by the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the country’s rebel-held Idlib province on Tuesday, a watchdog group and aid workers said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that following air strikes believed to have been...