Iran’s recent crackdowns on businessmen with ties to the United States, arrests of journalists, and continued rhetorical attacks on the United States have validated concerns raised by critics of the nuclear deal that it would increase the power of the regime’s hardliners. An article in the New York Times on Wednesday highlighting Iran’s...

Former Israeli ambassador to the United States and Knesset member Michael Oren (Kulanu) placed labels on European products at a supermarket in Jerusalem as a protest against the European Union’s initiative to mark Israeli goods from the West Bank, Golan Heights, and parts of Jerusalem, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. Kulanu...

A letter signed by 369 members of Congress calling on President Mahmoud Abbas to stop incitement to violence within the Palestinian Authority was released by the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday. The letter was signed by committee Chairman Ed Royce (R – Calif.) and ranking member Rep. Eliot Engel...

Democratic presidential frontrunner and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed strong support for Israel in an op-ed published Wednesday in The Forward, promising that if elected, she would invite the Israeli prime minister to Washington during her first month in office. Clinton cited her record on Israel as a senator and Secretary of State, including...

U.S. officials believe that the increasing number of hacking attacks carried out this past month by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) against American government personnel may be linked to the arrests of American-Iranian citizens by the regime, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link) Thursday. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,...

A lecture at the University of Minnesota Law School on Tuesday by renowned Israeli scholar Moshe Halbertal was marred when anti-Israel protesters repeatedly shouted down his remarks. The protesters delayed the lecture by half an hour with repeated shouts and interruptions from the audience, before continuing to chant outside the room in which the event was held,...

An Israeli Border Police officer was injured when he was deliberately struck by a Palestinian driver near Hebron, The Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. The man sustained a major head wound and is in critical condition. A Palestinian careened his car into an Israeli Border Police officer north of...

Those who hoped that the nuclear agreement between the P5+1 nations and Iran would moderate Tehran and lead to rapprochement with the West have recently been “jolted with a series of increasingly rude awakenings,” including a rise in anti-American activity and a crackdown on rights, The New York Times reported...

Isaac Herzog, head of the Israeli opposition party Zionist Union, told Britain’s ambassador to Israel that the European Union’s plan to label products coming from Israeli settlements is “a prize that Europe is bestowing for terror,” The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. The EU will decide next week exactly how...

Two bipartisan resolutions, one condemning incitement by the Palestinian Authority against Israel and the other raising concerns about anti-Semitism in Europe, passed unanimously in the United States House of Representatives this week. The resolution condemning Palestinian incitement was sponsored by Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R – Fla.) and Ted Deutch (D –...