The Iran-backed terror organization Hamas said Wednesday that the person behind the Monday bombing of a Jerusalem bus, which injured 21 people, was a Hamas operative, seeming to claim credit for the attack without declaring outright responsibility. The terrorist who conducted the bombing, 19-year-old Abad al-Hamid Abu Srour, was publicly identified by Hamas after he died from wounds he sustained in the...

Experts and members of Congress from both sides of the aisle indicated their opposition to a United Nations Security Council resolution imposing terms of a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at a hearing in the House of Representatives on Tuesday. Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs’ Subcommittee on the Middle East and North...

After testifying before Congress that a major organization behind the anti-Israel boycott campaign in the United States is led in part by individuals who formerly headed charities that have been implicated in aiding Hamas, Jonathan Schanzer, the vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, offered recommendations to fight the group’s influence, The Times of...

Israel was among the first countries to send humanitarian aid to Nepal after earthquakes measuring 7.8 and 7.3 on the Richter scale devastated the mountainous country in April 2015, killing nearly 9,000 and destroying hundreds of thousands of homes. A year later, Israeli nonprofits Tevel b’Tzedek (The Earth in Justice) and...

A group of award-winning professors affiliated with the American Studies Association (ASA) are suing the organization to oppose its boycott of Israel, saying that the boycott violates the ASA’s charter as well as laws governing non-profit organizations. The professors tried to resolve the issue internally, but are filing suit “as a last resort...

The Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of a 2012 law that allows American victims of terrorism to collect damages from $2 billion in frozen Iranian assets, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday. The 6 – 2 decision is a legal victory for 1,300 people who were seeking the funds from Iran’s central bank, also...

Students in Britain have reacted angrily as a student politician widely denounced as anti-Semitic was elected president of the UK National Union of Students (NUS). Malia Bouattia was elected president today at the NUS annual conference in Brighton, defeating the incumbent, who was running for re-election. According to the BBC,...

Shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s declaration on Sunday that the Golan Heights “will forever remain in Israel’s hands,” presidential contender Sen. Ted Cruz (R – Texas) released a statement supporting Netanyahu’s stance. Today, the government of Israel reiterated the reality that the Golan Heights are part of Israel’s...

A “significant contingent” of the former leadership of “three organizations that were designated or shut down, or held civilly liable for providing material support for the terrorist organization Hamas … appears to have pivoted to leadership positions within the American [Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions] campaign,” according to testimony provided to...

Oracle has acquired Crosswise, the startup that helps advertisers and marketers with cross-device advertising, personalization and analytics. Financial details of the deal were not announced but reports say the multinational computer technology corporation paid $50 million for the Israeli startup. Crosswise solves a difficult problem for advertisers. Its technology identifies...