A Palestinian human rights activist who opposes the anti-Israel BDS movement was heckled, threatened, and eventually forced to cancel one of his talks during a tour of Chicago-area universities last week. Bassam Eid, a former researcher for the Israeli NGO B’Tselem and the founder of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group,...

Bipartisan American support for Israel remains at historically high levels, according to a Gallup poll released on Monday. The survey found that 62% of Americans are sympathetic towards Israel, while only 15% favor the Palestinians. The remaining 23% were sympathetic to neither or both sides, or had no opinion. Gallup:...

Is the flu about to be eradicated once and for all? Dr. Ron Babecoff, the CEO and founder of Israeli company BiondVax, which has patented a vaccine that could potentially fight every strain of flu, certainly thinks so. “If somebody once thought it would be impossible to eradicate the flu, we...

Western media reports indicating that moderates won last week’s Iranian elections belie the fact that nearly 99 percent of all reformers were disqualified from running. The Wall Street Journal pointed this out in an editorial (Google link) Monday: At stake Friday were seats in the Majlis, or Parliament, and the Assembly of Experts, the body that will...

At least five members of Hamas were injured after a tunnel collapsed in the southeastern section of the Gaza Strip on Saturday night, The Times of Israel reported, citing Palestinian media. Authorities in Gaza are searching for an undisclosed number of men missing in the collapse, which has yet to...

An Argentine judiciary official investigating last year’s death of Alberto Nisman, a special prosecutor who died after accusing then-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of covering up Iran’s involvement in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center, concluded that Nisman was murdered, the Buenos Aires Herald reported on Friday. “Considering...

Several times a year, often more, Doreen Gold, an Israeli Jew, goes undercover to organize a mission of humanitarian aid for Syrian NGOs. From there the aid is delivered to the increasingly desperate and starving people of Syria, an enemy nation still reeling from a brutal and deadly civil war that...

In a speech broadcast to over 2,000 attendees at Microsoft Israel’s annual Think Next event, Microsoft founder Bill Gates said that Israeli contributions to technology fields such as analytics and security are “improving the world,” The Times of Israel reported on Thursday. Gates, who addressed the Tel Aviv audience on...

JNS.org – In his preface to a recent publication from Fathom, a British magazine covering the Middle East, British lawyer and anti-Semitism expert Anthony Julius—always the author of a memorable phrase—denounced “anti-Zionism and its creature, the BDS movement,” as “one of the major political stupidities of our time.” The import...

The conspiracy theories surrounding Jews and Israel espoused by Oberlin College Professor Joy Karega, first reported on Thursday by The Tower, have prompted a tepid response from the school, despite mounting controversy. In a statement initially published on an alumni Facebook page and later communicated to The Tower, Oberlin College President...