Today was the thirty sixth day of Operation Protective Edge. Head of new #UN Israel-bashing Gaza "inquiry" concocts Syria defense against "powerful" West. http://t.co/9klUXggDYN pic.twitter.com/sFLusuWa2d — Anne Bayefsky (@AnneBayefsky) August 12, 2014 The Tower  Today recalled remarks made by William Schabas pegged by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)...

Yesterday Bloomberg reported on the gains ISIS, now calling themselves the Islamic State, has made in northern Iraq recently. Islamic State’s rampage through northern Iraq has inspired terror as stories spread of beheadings and crucifixions. At the same time, its fighters are capturing the strategic assets needed to fund the...

Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth late on Monday published extensive details of what is reportedly an all-but-complete agreement – stipulating steps to be taken by Israel, Hamas, Egypt, and the Palestinian Authority (PA) – aimed at bringing an end to the current round of fighting between Hamas and Jerusalem. “Hamas cannot say that it...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, newly elected as the country’s president,  has “dominated every aspect of Turkish life more than anyone since the founder of modern Turkey, Kemal Ataturk,” Benny Avni wrote yesterday in Newsweek: He has achieved this by breaking all the rules. According to the bylaws of his own...

An op-ed published yesterday in the Saudi owned, London-based newspaper Asharq al-Awsat argued that the Middle East conflict once known as the “Arab-Israel” conflict has shifted so much that it needs to be recast as one between Israel along with moderate Arab regimes, on the one hand, and extremist regimes, terror...

Fox News reported yesterday that an internal United Nations audit of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Gaza found that UNDP “allowed at least five non-staff contract employees to handle ‘core’ procurement processes that only staffers are supposed to handle, including those for ordering up ‘significant’ civil construction activities.” The...

William Schabas, who was appointed Monday by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to head an investigation into Israel’s conduct during Operation Protective Edge, argued in a blog post last year that the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government would not constitute a war crime. Schabas argued...

Today was the thirty fifth day of Operation Protective Edge. The Tower today carried a news report originating from a Hebrew-language news site, citing sources in Gaza, that Hamas has executed many of its tunnel diggers in recent weeks to hinder Israel’s efforts to find the tunnels. The report gives insight...

For the first time in the 20-year history of the International Mathematics Competition, an Israeli team won first place. Held in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, from July 29 to August 4, the competition pitted 73 teams of university students from around the world against each other to solve problems in algebra, real and...

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) today appointed a commission to investigate the commission of war crimes during Operation Protective Edge. Many of the commission’s members have a history of flagrantly anti-Israel statements. According to the UN’s announcement: In a statement released this afternoon, the Council’s President, Ambassador Baudelaire Ndong...