In the wake of deadly terrorist attacks at Zaventem Airport and Maelbeek metro station in Brussels on Tuesday that killed at least 31 people and injured about 300 others, law-enforcement agencies in Europe’s major cities are scrambling to beef up security at airports and transport hubs. This latest horrific incident – and the...

Seven hackers with ties to the Iranian government were charged by the Justice Department on Thursday with carrying out cyber-attacks on dozens of American banks and a New York dam. According to the FBI, the suspects were employed by private security firms working on behalf of the Iranian government, including the Islamic...

Experts on the Iran-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah discussed its increased dominance in Lebanon at a House hearing on Tuesday, including how the group’s activities and strategies increase the likelihood of a future, more deadly war with Israel. “Hezbollah has made Lebanon complicit both financially and economically, as well as militarily because of all...

A Palestinian sheikh called Jews “the most despicable of Allah’s creatures” and urged their annihilation during an address at the al-Aqsa Mosque that was posted to the internet last week. Sheikh Ali Abu Ahmad began by slamming a Jordanian plan to install security cameras at al-Aqsa this week. Jordan’s Islamic Affairs...

The Israel-developed Facebook app Safety Check helped users let friends and family know that they were safe following the deadly attacks in Belgium on Tuesday. At least 30 people were murdered and scores of others wounded in back-to-back bombings of the Brussels airport and subway. The current version of the social network tool, which was also...

The Geneva-based organization UN Watch blasted the United Nations Human Rights Council for appointing Michael Lynk, a Canadian academic with a record of anti-Israel statements, to be the council’s rapporteur to investigate “Israel’s violations of the principles and bases of international law.” A statement by UN Watch on Wednesday charged that Lynk “fails...

A committee of the University of California’s Board of Regents unanimously approved a proposal on Wednesday condemning anti-Semitism and “anti-Semitic forms of anti-Zionism,” saying that they were discrimination that must be challenged by campus leaders. The ad hoc committee will be sending the “Statement of Principles Against Intolerance” to the full UC board...

There has been an “increase in hostility” at Vassar College due to tensions over anti-Israel activism that has often devolved into anti-Semitism, a Vassar professor wrote in the Forward on Monday. Michaela Pohl, a professor of Russian history who is not Jewish, noted that student activists single out Israel for criticism while remaining silent about...

A spokesman for the Palestinian Authority’s security forces wrote a Facebook post after Tuesday’s attacks in Belgium blaming the United States and Europe for the rise of global terror. “Those who prepare the poison will taste it themselves, and today Europe is having a taste of what it prepared with its...

British Prime Minister David Cameron said from the floor of the House of Commons on Wednesday that he was concerned by the growth of anti-Semitism within the Labour Party, and admonished opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn to “sort it out.” Cameron was asked by Conservative MP Mike Freer during the weekly session of Prime Minister’s Questions about the...