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Hillary Clinton, the front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, said that she would take America’s relationship with Israel “to the next level” if elected, Reuters reported on Sunday. In a speech at the Saban Forum, an annual gathering mainly focused on Israel’s security issues, the former secretary of state promised to...

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Europe

The National Front secured a plurality of votes in the first round of regional elections in France, signalling deep dissatisfaction with the governing Socialists in the wake of last month’s terror attacks, Agence France-Presse reported on Sunday. Support for the far-right party, which has a strong anti-immigration platform, seemed to rise...

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MidEast

JNS.org – I was telling a friend this week that of all the topics I write about, the global campaign against Israel’s very existence is the one that just won’t go away, no matter how much I might wish otherwise. After all, it’s an issue that’s consumed a good deal...

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Human Rights

ISIS is increasingly using human shields to deter airstrikes conducted by an U.S.-led coalition, CBS reported on Friday. Fighters are even using children as escorts while maneuvering in the street in order to exploit U.S. rules of engagement, which are intended to avoid collateral damage. … By barricading themselves with civilians...

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Featured

Syed Farook, the terrorist who committed the San Bernardino massacre along with his wife, was described by his father as being “obsessed with Israel.” “My son said that he shared [ISIS leader Abu Bakr] Al Baghdadi’s ideology and supported the creation of the Islamic State. He was also obsessed with...

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Global Affairs

A stabbing attack Saturday night at a London Underground station is being treated as a terror attack, Agence France-Presse reported on Sunday. An amateur video of the attack showed a man talking with passersby before attacking them. Three people were stabbed, one of whom was seriously injured. None of the...

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Iran

The International Atomic Energy Agency’s investigation into Iran’s past nuclear research at the Parchin military site must remain open due to Iran’s lies to the agency, a leading nuclear research think tank wrote in a report (.pdf) published Thursday. The report, written by David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini of the Institute for Science and...

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Shadi al-Menei, the commander of ISIS in the Sinai, is meeting with Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip to discuss ways that the terrorist groups can increase cooperation and coordinate attacks, The Times of Israel reported on Thursday, citing Israel’s Channel 2. Al-Menei was one of the founders of the...

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MidEast

The female shooter in the Wednesday terror attack in San Bernardino, Calif., posted an oath of allegiance on Facebook to ISIS and its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi during the attack, CNN has reported. Tashfeen Malik made the post under a pseudonym. The New York Times reported that the investigation showed that Malik and her...

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MidEast

Members of Goldsmiths University’s Islamic Society (ISOC) “heckled and aggressively disrupted” a lecture by Iranian secularist and feminist activist Maryam Namazie on Monday night, The Independent reported. The disruptions began about 11 minutes into the talk, after Namazie, who was invited by the university’s Atheist, Secularist and Humanist Society (ASH),...

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