The State Department scrambled on Monday to respond to a weekend New York Times scoop revealing that the Obama administration intends to bypass Congress in reducing sanctions on Iran – the Times‘ exact language was that “President Obama will do everything in his power to avoid letting Congress vote on”...

A post today by legal scholar Eugene Kontorovich explained the significance of the American Studies Association’s (ASA) reversal of its policy to boycott Israeli academics. If the ASA’s original action was important for popularizing such boycotts (at least in the narrow quarters of area studies), its reversal is equally important for showing them to be...

The Turkish government and the administration of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have been subject to harsh criticism in the past several days from various parties in the country, which stem from the passage of several controversial bills in the parliament and a tightening grip on the judiciary. Turkish commentators fear...

Ynet reported today that a team of four Israelis from IsraAID flew to Iraqi Kurdistan to help other NGO’s assisting Yazidi refugees from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The main focus was the Yazidi refugees, who appeared tired and beaten after a long journey. The four Israelis...

The social networks in the Muslim world are full of references to the Iranian actress Narjes Mohammadi, after she refused to wear a full body cover during the festivities of a Shiite holiday last week. The incident took place in Zadin Dasht, a city in the Iranian Fars province. As...

Approaching the Technoda Dorset complex in the Givat Olga neighborhood of Hadera, one is struck by how incongruous the clean pink-brick building looks among the tenements, ill-kept sidewalks and low-scale shops in the surrounding area. But the location of the Center for Education in Science and Technology is no accident....

Ilsa and Lisa Klinghoffer, daughters of Leon Klinghoffer, who was killed by Palestinian terrorists in October 1985, contributed an op-ed to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency protesting the Metropolitan Opera’s decision to stage the opera, “The Death of Klinghoffer,” which opens tonight. The controversial opera is centered on the hijacking of the...

The Palestinians will submit a resolution within weeks to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) demanding that Israel be made to withdraw from what Ramallah considers to be its territory – despite explicit American calls for Ramallah to put off the gambit – according to an announcement made earlier this...

In On Many Campuses, Hate is Spelled is SJP, which was published in the October 2014 issue of The Tower Magazine, Daniel Mael traces the history of the campus group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), and shows how neither justice nor peace are its goals. SJP is an outgrowth...

For the first time Iran has said that it supports the Houthi rebels, who control vast swathes of Yemen and recently took its capital. The Houthis can be likened to Hezbollah in Lebanon in that they have moved from fringe Shi’ite militia to major player in the country’s battle for...