The Boulder, Colorado city council voted overwhelmingly Monday to reject a sister city application from Nablus, citing Palestinian Authority abuses in the West Bank city and its long history as a terrorist center. Opponents of the proposal noted the Palestinian Authority’s dismal human rights record and lack of press freedom....

Speaking Sunday at a youth summer camp in the Gaza Strip, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh proclaimed to the crowd that Israel would be destroyed to make way for a Palestinian state. Arab media sources summed up his speech with the headline ‘Haniyeh: No future for Israel on the land of Palestine.’...

Bulgarian officials have reemphasized findings first announced in February linking Hezbollah to the July 2012 bus bombing in Burgas, Bulgaria that killed one Bulgarian and five Israeli citizens. Bulgarian Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin met Monday with Israel’s ambassador to Bulgaria and explicitly rejected media reports suggesting that Sofia had reassessed its declaration that...

Many of Egypt’s leading artists and intellectuals are demanding the removal of the country’s newly appointed minister of culture. Their concerns revolve around, among other things, the perception that Alaa Abdel-Aziz is attempting to destroy Egypt’s culture: The intellectuals, including writers and artists, also released a handwritten statement, condemning the...

Amid concerns over Jordan’s stability, America contributed troops, Patriot batteries, and F-16 jets to participate in the Eager Lion military exercise in the country. Major General Awni al-Adwan, Jordan’s chief army commander for the drill, contextualized the exercise: In a press conference held at the Jordan Special Operations Command in...

A new study by the Intelligence and Terrorism Center, which is part of the Israel Intelligence Heritage and Commemoration Center, estimates that at least a hundred Hezbollah fighters have been killed in the battles in Syria. The study draws its information from open sources, mainly the Arab media. It provides...

Iran and its terrorist allies, Hezbollah and Hamas, are carrying “non-stop” cyber attacks against Israel’s central computer systems, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed Sunday in his address to an international conference on cyber warfare at Tel Aviv University. Without elaborating, Netanyahu said that “vital national systems” had been targeted. Suspected...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on his supporters of to stage demonstrations in response to several weeks of protests held by critics of both Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP). The demonstrations began in late May after the announcement of redevelopment plans in Istanbul’s Taksim Square,...

Arab media outlets are waging a war of words against Hezbollah. The Iran-backed terror group has committed the group to battling on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad regime until it defeats the largely Sunni rebels who have been seeking the regime’s overthrow. The group was instrumental in the Syrian army’s successful campaign to wrest...

The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) held its thrice-yearly session Monday. As always, the body deliberated over its infamous Item 7 – the council’s permanent agenda item on Israel and the only one devoted to a specific country. As always, a convoy of some of the world’s worst human-rights abusers...