George Washington University announced Monday that it was creating an Israel Studies program, including an endowed professorship, in the latest example of universities developing closer ties with Israel. The endowed position will be named after Rabbi Max Ticktin, a recently retired professor of Hebrew at GW and a former assistant...

A comparison of two op-eds by European political leaders, one written ten years ago today and one written earlier this month, show a marked shift in attitudes towards Iran and its nuclear program. Ten years ago, the EU and constituent countries were willing to confront Iran over its deceptions and...

A Palestinian activist gave an anti-Israel lecture to a third grade class at a public elementary school in New York last week, Prof. William Jacobson of the Legal Insurrection blog reported Sunday. Bassem Tamimi spoke to a class at Beverly J. Martin Elementary School in Ithaca, apparently at the invitation of a local anti-Israel...

A poll of Palestinians residing in both the West Bank and Gaza shows increased support for terror and opposition to the two-state solution, The Times of Israel reported Monday. A slight majority of 51% said it opposed the two-state solution, while 48% supported it. The figure marks a slight increase...

A director of Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency has accused International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Yukiya Amano of leaking information that led to the killing of Iranian nuclear scientists, Fars reported today. Seyed Yasser Jebrayeeli, the deputy managing director of the agency, made the charge in a letter and book that he...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani insisted in an interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday that Iran would continue to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as long as ISIS and other terrorist groups still operate in Syria. Look, in a county where a large segment of the country has been occupied by terrorists, and there is bloodshed...

“Education Without Borders,” a special photo exhibition opening today (September 21) at the UN Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, showcases a unique Israeli initiative that provides continuing education for hospitalized children, including Arabs and Syrian refugees. Israel’s Ministry of Education mandates that all children hospitalized for more than three...

Iran is using the expected financial windfall it will receive from the nuclear deal to increase its funding of the terrorist groups Hezbollah and Hamas, Avi Issacharoff reported in The Times of Israel today. Since the deal was signed, Iran has significantly increased its financial support for two of the largest terror groups...

Iran collected samples from the Parchin military base, where it is believed to have carried out nuclear research, without international inspectors there to supervise, an Iranian official told the Islamic Republic News Agency today. Spokesman for Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Behruz Kamalvandi said sampling of specific points in Parchin was done by Iranian...

A number of states that have existing sanctions against Iran have signaled their intent to fight federal attempts to lift them, Bloomberg Politics reported Friday. Thirty states and the District of Columbia restrict investments by pensions and public entities in companies doing business in the country, according to the group United Against...