Following a weekend in which pressure steadily grew on Washington D.C.’s Newseum to rescind a planned memorial for two Hamas terrorists, the journalism museum this morning announced that it was reevaluating its decision. The statement noted that “further investigation” will take place. The controversy stems from a posted announcement, discovered by The Weekly Standard...

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A growing controversy over plans by Washington D.C.’s Newseum to memorialize two Hamas terrorists slain last November grew significantly Sunday evening. Leading Jewish and human rights organizations expressed “shock and outrage” at the possibility that operatives, paid by a U.S.-designated terrorist entity blacklisted by the Obama administration under Executive Order 13324, would be...

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A scandal triggered yesterday by a Weekly Standard expose today expanded to engulf Washington D.C.’s Newseum, a museum dedicated to showcasing the history of journalism. Yesterday the Weekly Standard revealed that the Newseum would be honoring two Hamas terrorists as journalists killed in the line of duty. The honorees were...

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A new poll [PDF] by the Pew Research Group highlights stark differences between Israeli and Palestinian public sentiment on a range of issues, including on the need for a peaceful two-state resolution to the Israeli-Arab conflict. Israelis continue to believe in a peaceful two-state solution to the Middle East conflict,...

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The Egyptian army has launched another campaign to destroy the roughly thousand of smuggling tunnels that link the Egyptian-controlled Sinai Peninsula to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Authorities are claiming limited but significant success: The head of engineering for the Egyptian Armed Forces, Major General Tahir Abdullah, announced today that authorities...

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Egyptian media outlets are again linking Hamas to violence in the country stretching back to the 2011 Egyptian Arab Spring. Earlier this week Egypt’s former interior minister floated the suggestion that Hamas had a hand in fomenting unrest during the revolution, which saw the overthrow of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak...

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In an extensive expose published late last month, The Telegraph documented the extent to which Hamas is training Palestinian schoolboys to use assault-style weapons and battle Israel. The outlet documented how the Iran-backed terror group has introduced into the local curriculum military training for 37,000 Palestinian boys aged 15-17. The...

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A new report from a Palestinian human rights group is threatening to deepen a controversy over anti-Israel media bias that has already generated sustained criticism of major news organizations and NGO’s. Early during Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense in November pictures emerged documenting the death of Gaza-based BBC journalist Jihad...

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An Egyptian newspaper has published accusations linking Hamas to a spate of violence in Egypt stretching back to the country’s Arab Spring revolution. The allegations come from former interior minister Mansour al-Essawy. Essawy served in the Hosni Mubarak government which was overthrown during that revolution. So while he has a...

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Hamas’s recent campaign to be removed from the European Union’s terror list is unlikely to succeed given its stance toward Israel, according to statements provided to The Tower by France’s ambassador to Israel Christophe Bigot. Bigot told The Tower that “France’s position on Hamas is clear.” The Iran-backed terror group...

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