The links between Hamas financiers and the leadership of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign have continued to draw scrutiny since they were first exposed during a congressional testimony last week. Jonathan Schanzer, the vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, testified at a joint hearing before two House Foreign Affairs subcommittees last...

Labour Party MP Naz Shah was suspended from the party Wednesday as the controversy over her two-year-old Facebook comments calling on Israel to be moved to the United States continued to spark outrage. A Labour Party statement said that Shah and party leader Jeremy Corbyn “have mutually agreed that she is...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling last week allowing victims of Iranian terror to collect $2 billion in frozen assets was “hostile and illegal, ” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in a cabinet meeting on Wednesday. Rouhani described the decision as an example of American hostility to Iran, saying that “these assets all belong to Iran...

The United States signed an agreement on Friday in Vienna to buy 32 tons of Iran’s heavy water for $8.6 million in order to prevent Tehran from violating the nuclear deal. For the first few years after signing the deal, which was reached in July, Iran is not allowed to...

There’s something very unusual about Hybrid, the Israeli Ministry of Economy and Industry’s new accelerator for startups in the Arab sector, recently launched at the Nazareth Business Incubator Center (NBIC). The unusual aspect is that it leverages the expertise and connections of Israeli military veterans. Specifically, Hybrid teams up early-stage...

The U.S. military has adopted Israel’s so-called “knock-on-the-roof” bombing tactic to minimize civilian casualties when attacking ISIS targets, a Pentagon spokesman disclosed in a briefing Tuesday. This development, combined with the successful testing last week of Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile technology in the U.S., points to the strengthened military cooperation between the two allied countries over...

Iran has sentenced four journalists to jail on charges of subverting national security, their lawyers told reporters on Tuesday. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps announced last November that they had arrested “several members of an infiltration network linked to hostile Western governments.” The suspects “were working in the country’s media...

A member of the UK’s Labour Party apologized and resigned her position as aide to one of the leaders of the party on Tuesday after it emerged that she had written inflammatory remarks about Israel on her Facebook page. Naz Shah shared a graphic in 2014—the year before she was elected to...

When the ambulance on which he was volunteering in the 1980s got stuck in Jerusalem traffic and failed to reach a choking child in time, then-teenager Eli Beer envisioned squads of neighborhood-based volunteers who could reach patients quickly by foot or cycle and begin first aid until the ambulance arrives....

JNS.org – To understand the significance of the newly announced legal challenge against the American Studies Association’s academic boycott of Israel, we need to go back around 18 months. It has been that long since the anti-Zionist fanatic Steven Salaita left the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under a cloud. Salaita,...