“Little” Steven Van Zandt, the guitarist for Bruce Springsteen’s E-Street Band, slammed anti-Israel boycotters earlier this week, calling them “ignorant obnoxious idiots.” What began as a Twitter discussion over the band’s decision to cancel a performance in North Carolina last month turned into an exchange about Israel after a user named Patrick wrote: @StevieVanZandt...

The passage of legislation against the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign in eight states over the past year has sent a strong signal to anti-Israel activists that their “smear campaign to delegitimize and demonize Israel has backfired,” Josh Block, CEO and President of The Israel Project, wrote in an op-ed published...

There is now a serious possibility that Jeremy Corbyn, the controversial leader of the British Labour Party, could be deposed over the anti-Semitism scandal engulfing his party. Several Labour frontbenchers are reportedly threatening to resign in protest, and there is talk of a possible coup. The scandal is so toxic...

Israel will open an official mission at NATO’s Brussels headquarters, the alliance announced Wednesday, reflecting Israel’s strong ties with American and European military partners, its growing rapprochement with Turkey, and growing regional and global concern about violence caused by Iran and ISIS. While Israel is not formally a member of NATO, the United...

An Israeli man was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison for the brutal murder of Palestinian teenager Muhammad Abu Khdeir in 2014. Yosef Haim Ben-David was convicted for Abu Khdeir’s murder last month. Ben-David and two teenage accomplices abducted Abu Khdeir, drove him to a forest, choked and beat him, and...

Every child gets a vision and hearing check in school on a regular basis. Dr. Moshe Fried, an Israeli plastic surgeon, believes an annual skin check is necessary as well, starting in the teens. This is why he agreed to be the medical consultant for Emerald Medical Applications’ DermaCompare, a...

The West’s refusal to challenge the growing corruption and autocratic rule of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas “could have a devastating effect on the long- prospects for a viable Palestinian state,” Grant Rumley, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote Monday in Newsweek. As long as Abbas continues security cooperation...

Booker Award-winning novelist Howard Jacobson said in an interview with the BBC’s Chris Cook last Friday that he had noticed “a new viciousness” in the anti-Semitism of the British Left since Jeremy Corbyn became leader of the Labour Party last year. The issue of anti-Semitism has been dogging the Labour Party since Corbyn’s...

The United States agreed last month to buy 32 tons of excess “heavy water,” a byproduct of nuclear enrichment, from Iran, which had produced more heavy water than the agreed-upon limits of the nuclear deal it signed with global powers last year. But the fact that Iran kept enriching after it reached its heavy water...

Four tons of a chemical used to manufacture long-range rockets were stopped from being smuggled into Gaza, Israeli security announced Tuesday. Security forces seized the ammonium chloride before Passover at the Nitzana border crossing between Israel and Egypt. The crossing is also used to facilitate the shipment of goods into Gaza. The Shin...