On her Facebook page yesterday, opposition MK Shelly Yachimovich blasted the the reservists from the IDF’s elite unit 8200 who wrote a letter last week that “expressed their refusal to take part in any action designed to ‘harm the Palestinian population’ in the West Bank and Gaza.” The Times of...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other prominent German political and religious leaders attended a rally in Berlin this weekend to show their support for the country’s Jewish minority and to express zero tolerance for anti-Semitism. “That people in Germany are threatened and abused because of their appearance or their support...

On the day singers Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga performed together in Tel Aviv, some 300 Hollywood stars and behind-the-lens staff put their name to an ad in The New York Times decrying Hamas’ raison d’être and its actions. We, the undersigned, are saddened by the devastating loss of life...

UN Watch reported Friday that William Schabas, recently appointed head of a United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) commission to investigate Israel, once attempted to disqualify three judges who convicted him with “violating human rights and freedom” by accusing them of bias. In 1974, when Schabas was a Ph.D. student in...

Al Jazeera reported Friday that Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has been “balking” at the prospect of calling on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to launch an investigation into Israeli actions during Operation Protective Edge. In a confidential letter obtained exclusively by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit, the ICC’s top prosecutor,...

Avi Issacharoff reported yesterday that, despite Israel’s strikes against top military leaders of Hamas during Operation Protective Edge, the terrorist organization has not yet appointed replacements. While Hamas has claimed that military chief Mohammad Deif was injured, not killed, the group has apparently appointed a replacement for Deif. The sources said that...

Newsweek magazine reported today on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria’s (ISIS) “organised recruiting network,” which is “operating online and through religious study groups” in and around Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city. Although a government official quoted in the report claims that “all necessary actions and precautions are being taken” to...

A major foreign policy address given on Thursday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – who in recent weeks has been politically strengthened by a growing consensus that the Jewish state emerged strengthened from its summer war against Hamas – saw the Israeli premier outlining Jerusalem’s posture on a range...

In an op-ed published today in The New York Times, former Obama administration adviser Dennis Ross warns that in formulating a policy to counter the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the United States must “not reach out to Islamists.” Ross explains that because the ideology fueling Islamists, including the Muslim...

In a report released Thursday, NBC revealed that one of the primary sources of revenue for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is from the sale of smuggled Iraqi and Syrian oil, often to NATO member Turkey. Turkey’s role in helping finance ISIS’ operations through these purchases raises...