Though the nuclear deal was signed in hopes that it would move Iran into a more constructive relationship with the rest of the world, the conviction of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian on espionage charges shows that diplomatic engagement has led to a “stiffening” of Iran’s stance towards the West, Benjamin Weinthal, a...

France’s highest appeals court last week upheld fines imposed on a dozen anti-Israel activists who were found guilty of “inciting hate or discrimination” by promoting a boycott of the Jewish state, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported Friday. The rulings passed on Tuesday by the Paris-based Court of Cassation confirmed the...

A day after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called for an end to incitement, the Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, said in an Arabic interview on Israeli television that the Temple Mount has been the site of a mosque “since the creation of the world,” and that it...

The recent vote by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to declare the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron and the Tomb of Rachel in Bethlehem “an integral part of Palestine” without mentioning their Jewish history, as well as to condemn Israel for archaeological digs in the Old...

The brother-in-law of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas received life-saving surgery in an Israeli hospital, i24 News reported Friday. The brother-in-law of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas underwent life-saving heart surgery at a private hospital in Tel Aviv, according to Israeli media reports Thursday. According to the reports, Abbas’s wife’s...

Palestinians hurled a firebomb at the vehicle of an Israeli couple that was driving with their three children in the West Bank on Friday, The Jerusalem Post reported. Both parents and all three kids were wounded, with the youngest, a four-year-old girl, sustaining moderate injuries. Palestinian terrorists hurled a Molotov...

In his opening statement at the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s hearing on Palestinian incitement on Thursday, ranking member Rep. Eliot Engel (D – N.Y.) put the onus for the recent escalation of violence in Israel on the Palestinian Authority, saying that “the Palestinians will never get their state on the...

Among the hacked emails of CIA director John Brennan to be posted this week by WikiLeaks was a memo written after the 2008 election urging President-elect Barack Obama to “come to terms with” whoever was ruling Iran, Business Insider reported Wednesday. In a post-election memo, purportedly written to Obama, Brennan laid...

The House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously approved a resolution condemning the Palestinian incitement that has been fueling the latest violence in Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. The non-binding resolution, drafted by Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Florida) and Congressman Ted Deutch (D-Florida), lists a host of statements from PA leadership made...

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) released a video of an armed and masked terrorist threatening Jews and Israel in fluent Hebrew this week, The Times of Israel reported Friday. In the video, which is embedded below, the terrorist addressed the message from ISIS to all Jews, who...