The four remaining Republican candidates for President laid out their support for Israel during a debate Thursday night. The discussion moved towards Israel when Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) criticized Donald Trump for saying that he would be “neutral” between the Israelis and the Palestinians, and for not promising to scrap...

[Update March 16: A similar letter now appears in the Oberlin review, this time with two significant differences: First, the organization that was originally described as connected to it, but apparently disavowed it as well, was not listed as Oberlin JVP but rather Students for a Free Palestine (SFP). Second, it lists the...

At least six residents of Gaza are trapped after a smuggling tunnel collapsed Thursday. This is the sixth reported tunnel collapse since January. A local defense official told the AFP news agency that the tunnel, which went from Rafah under the Egyptian border, was a “trade tunnel.” Egyptian authorities have been flooding the tunnels in an...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas rejected a peace initiative proposed by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday, the Palestinian newspaper Al Quds reported. The deal included a Palestinian capital in eastern Jerusalem and a moratorium on West Bank construction in exchange for recognizing Israel as a Jewish state and relinquishing...

Iranian civil life has been marked by an increase in executions, a “widening crackdown” on freedoms, the disqualification of thousands of candidates for public office, and ongoing discrimination against minorities and women, the UN’s investigator into the human rights situation in Iran reported Thursday. UN rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed’s report (.pdf) covered executions, freedom of expression,...

President Barack Obama’s claim that he sought to persuade the Arab world to stop viewing Israel as the root of all the Middle East’s ills in his historic 2009 Cairo speech is misleading, former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren told The Algemeiner in an interview published on Thursday. According to Oren, the...

A cleric who hosts a show on the Palestinian Authority’s official television station has said that the United States and Israel are seeking to undermine the morals and values of the Arab world by spreading pornography and sex. Sheikh Imad Hamatu, a professor of Quranic Studies at the University of Palestine in...

The American Council of Trustees and Alumni on Wednesday backed Oberlin College’s Board of Trustees for condemning Professor Joy Karega’s anti-Semitic social media posts. Oberlin’s trustees denounced Karega’s posts, which were first reported by The Tower two weeks ago, as “anti-semitic and abhorrent” on Saturday. “Oberlin’s trustees are right,” wrote the academic watchdog group on...

A heated controversy has erupted in the wake of a lecture on “Inhumanist Biopolitics: How Palestine Matters” delivered at Vassar College on February 3 by Jasbir K. Puar, Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. While Puar’s critics charge that her lecture provided especially offensive examples of...

Following this week’s ballistic missiles tests by Iran, which came after President Hassan Rouhani ordered his military to step the development of the weapons, an editorial (Google link) in The Wall Street Journal observed that “moderation, Iranian-style, is relative.” “Tehran’s show of force—it also tested missiles on Tuesday—are not the work...