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On Tuesday I reported that a college textbook called “Global Politics: Engaging a Complex World” included the infamous “Map that Lies” propaganda poster as fact. Sharona Schwartz of The Blaze contacted the company: The McGraw-Hill Education book publisher said Wednesday that it would temporarily stop selling one of its college...

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Microsoft Israel’s R&D Center—the tech giant’s first R&D center outside the United States—is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. At Microsoft Israel R&D Center’s annual Think Next  showcase in Tel Aviv last month, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella congratulated the Israeli engineers and researchers who continue breaking new ground. He noted Microsoft’s...

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Frequent collapses of terror attack tunnels in recent weeks has made Hamas fighters afraid of entering them, The Jerusalem Post reported on Thursday. A tunnel collapse Thursday that killed one Hamas terrorist was at least the sixth in recent weeks. Five terrorists were injured in a tunnel collapse last week, and eleven others...

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Human Rights

An openly gay Iranian poet who is seeking asylum in Israel has received an eight-month visa extension from the country’s interior ministry. Payam Feili, whose native Iran considers homosexuality to be a crime punishable by death, was granted a tourist visa to visit Israel in December and applied for asylum...

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Oberlin College President Marvin Krislov expressed concern about the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories of associate professor Joy Karega, but refused to explicitly condemn her, in a blog post published on the Oberlin website Monday night. The Tower revealed last week that Karega had posted links on Facebook indicating her beliefs that the Rothschild family, a Jewish...

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Israel is conducting final tests before deploying what military experts call one of the most advanced missile defense systems in the world, one that in many ways surpasses the capabilities of the United States. The multi-platform system includes the Iron Dome, which stops low-accuracy rockets like those fired by Hamas from the...

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Iran

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) labeled the Iranian proxy group Hezbollah a terrorist organization on Wednesday. The move comes on the heels of Saudi Arabia’s decision to halt $4 billion in military aid to Lebanon due to its domination by Iran through Hezbollah, as well as Saudi government warnings to...

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Israeli-American billionaire Haim Saban has announced a new fund—Saban Ventures—to invest $100 million in Israeli startups. According to a Globes report, the fund will invest primarily in mobile, social networks, ecommerce and digital media startups, with a side interest in cloud computing and financial technology. Saban, known for the Power...

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Oberlin College professor Joy Karega has been under fire over the past week after The Tower revealed that she had a history of posting anti-Israel and anti-Semitic conspiracies theories on her Facebook page. It is now evident that she has used social media to express preposterous beliefs on other subjects as well. While Karega has deleted many of...

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MidEast

An open letter by a disgruntled ISIS fighter to the self-proclaimed caliphate’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, revealed extensive ties between the group’s affiliate in the Sinai Peninsula and the Palestinian terror organization Hamas. The letter, written by Abu Abdallah al-Muhajir, a jihadist from Gaza who now fights for ISIS in Syria,...

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