The Algemeiner reported Tuesday that a group of Kurdish supporters joined a pro-Israel demonstration in front of the White House last week not just to support Israel but to call for Kurdish independence. A video of the incident is embedded below. According to The Algemeiner. The protesters chanted “No Hamas,...

Wisam was born in northern Iraq 17 months ago with life-threatening congenital heart disease. His family is one of 200,000 adherents of the Yazidi faith who have escaped to the mountains near their hometown of Sinjar under persecution by the Islamic State, the al-Qaeda terrorist group offshoot formerly known as...

Today was the thirty-seventh day of Operation Protective Edge. I love how all they're saying on the news right now is essentially: "We have no idea what's going on." — Sharon Udasin (@sharonudasin) August 13, 2014 Earlier today, The Tower reported on the violation of the ceasefire by Hamas, when at...

Al Monitor reported today that Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, publicly rejected the idea that engagement with the West in nuclear talks could lead to any closer relations with the United States. Speaking to foreign diplomats as well as officials form Iran’s foreign ministry, Khamenei said that engagement with...

The Egypt-sponsored peace talks between Israel and Hamas have fallen apart, with the current 72-hour ceasefire set to expire at midnight local time. Shortly after Hamas announced that the talks failed, but before the ceasefire itself ended, red alert sirens were heard throughout southern Israel. Hamas official Ali Barake states negotiations...

Prof. William Schabas, who has been tabbed by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to investigate war crimes that may have been committed during the recent hostilities between Israel and Hamas, tried to deflect charges that he is biased against Israel in an interview yesterday with Israel’s Channel 2....

BBC Watch, a media criticism website focused on the mistakes and distortions made by the BBC, noted yesterday that the network made undocumented changes to last week’s analysis of casualty figures from Gaza written by the network’s chief statistician Anthony Reuben, softening Reuben’s conclusion. BBC Watch, using an online tool called News Sniffer, shows that between the...

The Jerusalem Post reported yesterday on an effort by a bipartisan group of senators asking for accountability from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), especially due to the agency’s ties to Hamas. The senators called for an investigation in a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry. Accusing UNRWA of...

The Associated Press reported yesterday that a year after its launch, Al Jazeera America still is struggling to acquire viewers and has scaled back its live programming. After several unsuccessful years trying to get its English-language network carried widely in the United States, the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera bought and closed Al Gore’s Current...

Weizmann Institute scientists have demonstrated for the first time a photonic router – a quantum device based on a single atom that enables routing of single photons by single photons. This achievement, as reported in Science magazine, is another step toward overcoming the difficulties in building quantum computers. At the...