Reports of anti-Semitic incidents on college campuses have gone up, and are correlated to the presence of groups advocating boycotts of Israel, a study by researchers at Brandeis University has found. The report, conducted by the Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, found that the presence of a Boycott,...

Israeli officials believe that the Palestinian Authority is seeking to use the United Nations’ cultural body to lay claim to the Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of nearly 2,000-year-old biblical manuscripts considered to be among Israel’s greatest archaeological treasures, The Times of Israel reported Sunday. The ancient Hebrew scrolls, discovered in...

Pennsylvania has become the latest state to adopt bipartisan legislation prohibiting its agencies from contracting with companies that support discrimination based on national origin, including through the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign against Israel, the Jewish Exponent reported Friday. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf signed HB 2107 on Friday after it overwhelmingly passed the state’s House...

On October 25, the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University (CPS) co-hosted with Columbia’s Law School an event titled “Human Rights, International Law, and the Israeli Occupation of Palestine.” As evidenced by the speakers at this event, the topic of conversation had no hope of being anything but yet...

The campaign to subject Israel to boycotts, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) is tainted by ties to the terrorist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), researchers from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies wrote Wednesday in The Hill. Jonathan Schanzer, a former U.S. Treasury official who is now the think...

As a law student at George Mason University, I can certainly appreciate and defend the First Amendment rights to which all Americans are entitled. Yet we should all be deeply concerned that our university is hosting Students for Justice in Palestine’s (SJP) national convention this weekend. SJP disguises itself as...

Engie, an Israeli app that aims to revolutionize the car repair industry, has announced a $3.5 million investment round. The app allows drivers to connect to the car’s computer, understand the car’s health, know how much the repair will cost, and choose the best mechanic nearby. Almost 100,000 users and 200 mechanics have...

Iran Extends Its Global Reach This week The Tower reported on numerous signs that Iran is strengthening its position across the Middle East and even the world. Monday’s election of Hezbollah ally Michel Aoun as president of Lebanon was hailed by several senior Iranian officials. “The election of Michel Aoun as president shows new...

The UK’s leading universities regulator has ruled in favor of a Jewish student’s complaint concerning harassment by pro-Palestinian activists at Sheffield Hallam University in the north of England. The regulator, called the Office of the Independent Adjudicator (OIA), cited the European Parliament’s Working Definition of Antisemitism in determining that material...

High-ranking Iranian officials have hailed the election of Lebanon’s new president Michel Aoun as a boon for the Islamic Republic, with a top adviser for Iran’s parliamentary speaker saying that Aoun will advance “the resistance against the Zionist regime,” Iran’s state-owned PressTV reported on Wednesday. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian also claimed that Aoun’s election will...