Sadiq Khan, the Labour Party’s candidate for mayor of London, said that the level of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party is “unacceptable” and a “badge of shame,” The Telegraph reported on Wednesday. “It is unacceptable for 2016 that there is anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. It is with sorrow that I wear...

Hezbollah is building a fortified base in Syria, the global intelligence company Stratfor reported Wednesday. The site lies near the border city of Qusayr, which Hezbollah, along with the Syrian army and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), captured from Syrian opposition forces in June 2013. “According to one source close...

In what is likely a first in the long and protracted history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Twitter was used to reject the possibility of peace negotiations. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invited Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday to meet immediately without preconditions to discuss peace and an end to the current wave of Palestinian...

A United Nations office has coordinated the donation of millions of dollars to NGOs that are highly critical of Israel, and has helped those groups disseminate their information, a new report by the watchdog group NGO Monitor has documented. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is responsible for “bringing...

When disaster strikes, Israel’s government, army, and aid agencies are always among the first to send material and expert assistance, whether it’s earthquakes in Haiti and Nepal, tsunamis in Sri Lanka and Japan, typhoon in the Philippines, or other mass disasters in Turkey, India, Mexico, El Salvador, Greece, Rwanda, Armenia,...

The massive leak of documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, otherwise known as the Panama Papers, has shed light on the role the company played in enabling Iranian sanctions busting. While Mossack Fonseca has admitted to no wrongdoing in helping its clients invest money in offshore tax shelters, leaked...

Democratic and Republican senators expressed a desire to pursue tougher sanctions on Iran in response to its destabilizing and aggressive activities, as well as frustration over the Obama administration’s changing positions on Iran’s ballistic missile tests and its access to dollar transactions, during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Tuesday. Several...

A Stanford student senate hearing on a bill to fight anti-Semitism ended in controversy after one of the senators argued that questioning whether Jews control the government, media, and banks is not anti-Semitic, The Stanford Review reported on Tuesday. The senator’s statement preceded the adoption of a series of amendments that largely gutted...

An Iranian general warned the United States not to cross any “red lines” on the Islamic Republic’s ballistic missile program, The Jerusalem Post reported on Monday. “The White House should know that defense capacities and missile power, specially at the present juncture where plots and threats are galore, is among the...

BreezoMeter, an Israeli big data analytics company that provides dynamic air quality data in real-time, has announced the use of its software platform in the new Dyson Pure Cool Link air purifier. BreezoMeter’s data will be used to provide users with live access to outdoor air quality data on their...