At a time when American politics have become “increasingly polarized,” support for Israel remains “a rare and welcome bastion of bipartisanship,” Josh Block, CEO and president of The Israel Project, wrote in an op-ed published last week in The Sun Sentinel. The Israel Project publishes The Tower. Block observed that “bills and resolutions...

The umbrella organization of British Jews called on the Labour Party to immediately expel former London Mayor Ken Livingstone after he repeated debunked claims that Adolf Hitler supported Zionism, the latest anti-Semitic incident to have engulfed the party since Jeremy Corbyn took over as party leader last year. “Hitler’s persecution of the...

Palestinians are growing increasingly outraged over the removal of women’s names and pictures from official lists of candidates competing in next month’s municipal elections, longtime Palestinian affairs correspondent Khaled Abu Toameh reported Monday. Rather than publishing the female candidates’ names or photographs, Abu Toameh reported, “the electoral lists are using the terms ‘the...

Seven armed boats from the navy of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) swarmed a U.S. Navy patrol ship in the Persian Gulf on Sunday, forcing it to change course after the Iranians came within 100 yards and stopped their vehicles in the American ship’s path, officials from the U.S. Defense Department said on...

Following a string of scandals that erupted after The Tower reported that an Oberlin College professor had posted anti-Semitic material on Facebook, Marvin Krislov announced Tuesday that he is stepping down as president of the private liberal arts school at the end of the 2017 academic year. The Tower reported in February that...

The rescinding of an Israeli filmmaker’s invitation to a festival at Syracuse University demonstrates the “chilling effect” that the anti-Israel boycott campaign has had on free speech, Conor Friedersdorf wrote in The Atlantic on Thursday. Award-winning Israeli documentarian Shimon Dotan had been invited by William L. Blizek, a professor of philosophy and religion at...

On a state visit to Israel on Sunday, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit Australia early next year, which would make him the first sitting Israeli Prime Minister to visit Down Under. “Your friendship is terrific – Australia, the government’s and yours personally....

Cooperating with an international anti-money laundering agency is not in Iran’s national interest, because doing so would harm the country’s ongoing support for terror, a senior adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei admitted Sunday. Ali Akbar Velayati, chief of the Research Center of the Expediency Council, which advises Khamenei, said in a...

Five experts from the Israel Trauma Coalition (ITC) will fly to Berlin on September 11 to give five days of training to clinicians, caregivers, and volunteers working with Mideast refugees in two temporary shelters. ITC Director Tali Levanon went to Berlin six weeks ago to assess the situation and will...

Jessica Alba has been a Krav Maga fan for years. But now the Mechanic: Resurrection star is crediting the official self-defense system of the Israel Defense Forces for her ability to perform her own stunts in the new action-thriller. “I did all my stunts for Mechanic: Resurrection. Hand-to-hand combat is where...