The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is hardly an outlet of Israeli hasbara. Indeed, the headline finding of its latest “Fragmented Lives: Humanitarian Overview 2015” report makes its stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict quite plain: “the Israeli occupation,” says the press release, “is the “main trigger...

Israel was selected on Monday to lead a permanent committee of the United Nations General Assembly for the first time in its history. “This is a historic achievement for the State of Israel. We broke the glass ceiling,” Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said. While Israel has headed some minor...

While human rights are violated worldwide and thousands have been killed in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen, only Israel “has its record inspected at every single session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC),” the Associated Press reported Monday. From all the nations in the world, only Israel is subject to a permanent agenda...

A man who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State fatally stabbed a French police commander and later killed his partner, a policewoman, at their home near Paris on Monday evening, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The assault, which was denounced by the French government as “an abject act of terrorism,” comes just days after ISIS claimed responsibility for...

Any future war between Israel and Hezbollah will take a devastating toll on civilians due to the Iran-backed terrorist group’s practice of embedding its military assets in residential areas, Willy Stern wrote in The Weekly Standard this week. Hezbollah currently has a stockpile of over 130,000 rockets, more than the combined arsenal of all NATO countries, with the...

Millions of pounds of British aid money to the Palestinian Authority were used to encourage terrorism and led to a spike in Palestinian violence, an independent inquiry found. A £156.4 million ($222.5 million) aid project by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) designed to support Palestinian state-building instead led to public sector...

Two people were injured on Sunday after a bomb exploded outside the headquarters of a Beirut bank that had enforced sanctions on the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah. Blom Bank has recently closed the accounts of individuals suspected of having links to Hezbollah in order to comply with U.S. law, Reuters reported....

Even as business between China and Israel steadily grows each year, a “trust crisis” could adversely impact the trade between the countries, says Edwards You Lyu, founder and CEO of Vadi Ventures. This is why the new Chinese-owned company in Tel Aviv screens visiting business people from China to identify...

Fifty people were killed and 53 more wounded after a gunman who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State opened fire at a gay nightclub in Orlando early Sunday morning. The massacre is the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history and the country’s worst terror attack since September 11, 2001. American-born Omar Mateen,...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu extended his condolences over a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Florida that left 50 people dead and more than 50 others injured on Sunday. The Islamic State has since claimed responsibility for the massacre, which is being investigated as an act of terror...