Palestinians hurled a firebomb at the vehicle of an Israeli couple that was driving with their three children in the West Bank on Friday, The Jerusalem Post reported. Both parents and all three kids were wounded, with the youngest, a four-year-old girl, sustaining moderate injuries. Palestinian terrorists hurled a Molotov...

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In his opening statement at the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s hearing on Palestinian incitement on Thursday, ranking member Rep. Eliot Engel (D – N.Y.) put the onus for the recent escalation of violence in Israel on the Palestinian Authority, saying that “the Palestinians will never get their state on the...

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The House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously approved a resolution condemning the Palestinian incitement that has been fueling the latest violence in Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. The non-binding resolution, drafted by Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Florida) and Congressman Ted Deutch (D-Florida), lists a host of statements from PA leadership made...

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French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy argued that the current wave of Palestinian terror, rather than being unique to Israel, bears “more resemblance to the latest installment of a worldwide jihad” inspired by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), in an opinion piece published yesterday in The Algemeiner. It is highly doubtful...

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Recent news has renewed interest in Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem and founder of Palestinian nationalism, and has also shined a spotlight on the ties between Palestinian nationalism and Nazism. Here is what you need to know: 1) Husseini used the “Temple Mount libel” to drive the 1929 Arab massacre of Jews...

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei has conditioned acceptance of the nuclear deal on Iran being exempted from consequences of its ongoing support for international terrorism, human rights abuses, and nuclear cheating, CNN reported today. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s official website carries a letter from the Supreme Leader to Iranian President...

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The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is taking credit for the current round of Palestinian anti-Israel terror, Marc Shulman wrote an analysis for Newsweek on Monday. Citing Israeli sources calling the violence an “ISIS uprising,” Shulman observed: [ISIS] issued five videos on this newest round of the conflict, trying to...

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Bedouin leaders have condemned the “despicable” terrorist attack committed on Sunday by a young Bedouin man at the Beersheba bus station. The Times of Israel reported more: “Following [Sunday’s] terrorist attack at the Beersheba central bus station in which two innocent people lost their lives, we utterly and unreservedly condemn this...

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The former chairman of the BBC, Lord Michael Grade, has criticized the network for its recent biased coverage of Israel, The Jewish Chronicle reported Monday. Grade wrote a letter to the BBC’s director of news and current affairs regarding a recent dispatch by correspondent Orla Guerin. Lord Grade said the report had implied “equivalence between Israeli...

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The head of UNESCO, UN’s cultural agency, said that she “deplores” a resolution proposed by Arab country members of the agency’s executive board that would deem the Western Wall to be a Muslim holy site. Irina Bokova said in a statement that the plan, which is scheduled to be voted on today, “could be seen to alter the status...

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