The fourth annual Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism attracted five hundred participants from 50 countries and six religions to Jerusalem this week to tackle the daunting challenge of resurgent global anti-Semitism. The conference, sponsored jointly by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry for Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs, opened...

A week after an Al Qaeda-linked Somali terror organization urged its followers to conduct operations similar to the Hamas kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, a Hamas spokesman reaffirmed his organization’s embrace of the tactic that it pioneered. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas – whose Fatah faction rivals Hamas – had...

Hezbollah appears to be shrugging off a 24-hour ultimatum issued yesterday by Free Syrian Army chief Salim Idris instructing the Iran-backed terror group to withdraw from Syria, and is instead pouring extra fighters from Lebanon into the battle raging in the Syrian city of Qusayr: Government fighter jets early Wednesday...

An open letter signed last week by 72 congressmen is calling on United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to demand that Iran be removed from serving as the chair of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament. The bipartisan letter – coauthored by Peter Roskam (R-IL), Ted Deutch (D-FL), Mike Kelly (R-PA),...

Opposition forces battling the Bashar al-Assad regime have stolen at least two “virtually indestructible” U.N. vehicles in recent months from the U.N. Disengagement Force (UNDOF) along the Golan Heights. The acknowledgment of the thefts by UNDOF will renew speculation that Israel may have to act to reestablish stability amid the...

Recent weeks have seen foreign policy analysis to the effect that further pressure on Iran ought not be imposed, because the regime may soften its stance in nuclear negotiations after the upcoming June elections. The eight hardline presidential candidates allowed to run in the election – some 670 other candidates...

Despite the risks and its own disappointment, Israel must explore all possibilities for exploring peace with the Palestinians, Tzipi Livni, Israel’s justice minister and envoy to the peace process, told an audience Tuesday in Jerusalem. Speaking at a forum hosted by The Israel Project, Livni emphasized that Western pressure was...

Inspired by a colleague in New York, a Tel Aviv photographer has created what is rapidly becoming an immensely popular webpage dedicated to showing the human face of Tel Aviv to Facebook users worldwide, including citizens of Israel’s most ardent geopolitical foes. “I get a lot of responses from people...

Hezbollah is attempting to move advanced weapons into civilian areas in Lebanon in preparation for another conflict with Israel. The Iran-backed terror group has an extensive, video-documented history of exploiting Lebanese civilians, and during its 2006 war with Israel successfully created incidents in which human shields were endangered and killed....

Russian officials have reiterated today Moscow’s intention to deliver advanced S-300 anti-aircraft systems to Syria. The U.S. and its allies have long urged Russia to forgo the planned transfer, fearing among other things that the missiles would deeply complicate any future Western intervention against the Bashar al-Assad regime. Russia has...