A senior official from Fatah, the party led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, said Europe only paid attention to the conflict in Syria when it impacted the continent directly, and asked whether Palestinians needed to “hijack your planes and destroy your airports again” to make Europeans care about the...

Among the many eclectic gifts to be included in the Academy Awards’ gift basket for Oscar nominees is a $55,000 first-class trip to Israel. Hollywood’s top celebrities could stay in a luxury suite at one of the country’s best hotels, like the Waldorf Astoria in Jerusalem (the seventh-best hotel in the world...

The mother of one of two Israeli Arab girls who stabbed an Israeli security guard on Thursday apologized for her daughter’s actions, thanked the guard for subduing the pair without opening fire, and expressed wishes that he should have a long life, The Times of Israel reported on Friday. The...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met with families of terrorists on Saturday, marking the second time he has done so this week. His office posted videos of him meeting with families of terrorists from Hebron on both his Arabic- and English-language websites and his YouTube channel. Abbas also met with...

JNS.org – 2016 may well be remembered as the year that Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement targeting Israel finally died its death—in a clinical sense, at least. Across the U.S., state legislatures are passing bills that will outlaw state authorities from investing public funds in, and entering into contracts...

The global social media platform Twitter announced that it suspended 125,00 accounts that were threatening or promoting terrorism, primarily on behalf of the Islamic State, since the middle of last year, CNBC reported Friday. The announcement is the first time that Twitter indicated the scope of terror-related activity on its network. A Brookings Institution study...

Tens of thousands of Syrians have fled from Aleppo after the city was nearly encircled by the forces of President Bashar al-Assad, supported by Iranian troops and hundreds of Russian air strikes. “The Russian cover continues night and day, there were more than 250 air strikes on this area in one...

After two 13-year-old girls were arrested Thursday after stabbing a security guard at a bus station in Ramle, those who knew the girls said that they were good students who were incited to violence by videos on social media. The Al-Jawarish School in Ramle, which the girls attend school, “promotes living together,” a school source told...

The Obama administration’s Middle East policy effectively serves as “legitimization of Iranian spheres of influence throughout the region, especially in Iraq and Syria,” Tony Badran, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies wrote in an analysis for Tablet on Thursday. Badran observed that President Barack Obama has stated that he...

A Jerusalem court sentenced two Israeli teens for the July 2014 kidnapping and killing of a 16-year-old Palestinian, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported Thursday. The defendants, whose identities were concealed because they were minors at the time they attacked Muhammed Abu-Khdeir, were convicted of the crime this past November. One of...