Reports of spiking anti-Semitism in several European countries have analysts again asking whether Europe’s increasingly marked diplomatic hostility toward the Jewish state is a function of something more than geo-strategic and humanitarian evaluations. A recent report in the Jerusalem Post described among other things “outrageous” anti-Semitism in Belgium. A recent...

A growing scandal over the treatment of laborers constructing facilities for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar reached the British Prime Ministership today, after an investigation published last week by The Guardian estimated that the work will eventually end up killing 4,000 migrant workers. David Cameron would like to see...

A French diplomat who was filmed taking a swing at an Israeli soldier will be expelled from Israel, after Jerusalem filed a complaint with Paris about the incident. The incident occurred while Marion Fesneau-Castaing was participating in a European Union delegation delivering supplies to Palestinians attempting to rebuild illegally-built –...

Sunni extremists aligned against Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime have at times made deliberate, extensive efforts to win hearts and minds. Al Qaeda officials, in general, are known to be concerned about the sensitivities of local populations. Documents and memos captured in Mali advise affiliates not to impose harsh sharia measures...

Details are beginning to emerge about what the U.S. would minimally demand from Iran in the context of a deal over the country’s nuclear program. National Security Adviser Susan Rice explained on Sunday that Iran would, for example, not be permitted to continue enriching uranium under any potential deal with...

The Wall Street Journal declared last Friday that it would “be happy to accept” an apology from CNN, after the cable network’s Christiane Amanpour declared on Twitter that the Journal had “jump[ed] into bed” with the “Iranian extremist mouthpiece” Fars news agency. Both the Journal and Fars criticized CNN for...

Israel’s left-leaning Ha’aretz describes a “sense of anxiety,” being conveyed to the White House by Jerusalem and by the U.S.’s chief allies in the Arab world, regarding American diplomacy related to Iran and the Iranian regime’s nuclear program. Adel al-Jubeir – who is Saudi Arabia’s ambassador in Washington and who was...

The Wall Street Journal revealed late last week that Iran has been hacking U.S. Navy computers in recent weeks. The allegations, coming as the Obama administration ramps up talks with Iran over its nuclear program, show the depth and complexity of long-standing tensions between Washington and Tehran. The U.S. officials said...

Weekend violence and political developments inside Lebanon again have observers focusing on the role played by Hezbollah and its Iranian patrons in undermining the country’s stability. Debates over the degree to which the West should target Hezbollah have sometimes turned on claims that, in fact, the Iran-backed terror group is...

Sunni jihadists yesterday detonated a series of coordinated car bombs in Shiite neighborhoods across Baghdad, the latest attacks in tit-for-tat violence that has analysts worried the country is slipping back into the all-out sectarian warfare of 2005-2006. At least fifty-four people were killed. The country’s renewed sectarian violence is in...