An increasingly deployed comparison, made by anti-Israel activists, between Israel and the racist Jim Crow era of the United States is “an insult to Jews… [and] an insult to the African-Americans who struggled to be a part of the American dream,” veteran civil rights attorney Andrew Goldman wrote in an...

A United Nations panel in charge of monitoring illicit Iranian nuclear procurement suggested in its recently released annual report that a decline in confirmed reports of such violations could be attributed to “a political decision by some member states to refrain from reporting to avoid any possible negative impact on ongoing negotiations between …...

Shortly after Iranian foreign minister and chief nuclear negotiator Mohammad Javad Zarif spoke at New York University, Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) responded, criticizing Zarif’s demand that U.N.-imposed sanctions on Iran must be lifted immediately upon completing a nuclear deal and challenging Zarif to a debate. On his website, Cotton pointed out that Zarif’s remarks contradicted...

Israeli high-tech companies raised nearly $1 billion during the first quarter of 2015, according to the most recent report by IVC Research Center, the Israeli tech website Geektime reported Monday. According to a recently published report from IVC Research Center, Israel’s leading research group on the country’s high tech companies and...

In a speech at New York University today, Iranian foreign minister and chief nuclear negotiator Mohammad Javad Zarif lashed out at President Barack Obama and the U.S. Senate, justified the detention of a Marshall Islands-flagged cargo ship, and suggested that The Washington Post‘s Tehran reporter, Jason Rezaian, is a spy. Josh Rogin of...

Saudi Arabia’s new king, Salman bin Abdulaziz, announced a shakeup of his government Tuesday night. The powerful interior minister, 55 year-old Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, has been appointed crown prince, in place of his half-brother Muqrin bin Abdulaziz. This is part of a significant shakeup that included the replacement of the...

Noting that Iran’s seizure of the Maersk Tigris M/V yesterday was done in “blatant defiance” of the United States, Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael Segall noted that it was that latest in series of recent provocations in the Persian Gulf, especially since the United States last week sent two ships to the waters off Yemen to deter Iran...

Bedouin tribes in the Sinai Peninsula have recently begun to shed their long-maintained neutrality to partner with the Egyptian military in its fight against the Sinai branch of ISIS and other terror organizations. In the past, Sinai residents have found themselves in a deadly dilemma. If they helped the government, they risked retaliation from terrorists....

Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry announced that it had thwarted a car bomb attack against the American embassy in Riyadh, and had arrested 93 people, mostly Saudi nationals, for ties to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The New York Times reported yesterday. The ministry said in an statement that the suspects...

The IDF is opening the largest field hospital of its kind in Israeli history in Nepal today, The Times of Israel reported: After a series of delays, the Israel Defense Forces field hospital in Kathmandu will start treating thousands of those injured in the weekend’s devastating earthquake Wednesday morning, kicking...