Talks are underway between the seven countries negotiating over Iran’s nuclear program—including the five permanent members of United Nations Security Council—to lift the security council’s sanctions on Iran, Reuters reported today. The talks between Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States — the five permanent members of the Security Council...

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The recent terror attacks in Paris and Copenhagen have brought the need to understand the phenomenon of rising anti-Semitism in Europe just seventy years after the Holocaust into sharper focus. Two reports published this month covering anti-Semitism in Britain during the past year note the contribution of media coverage of events in...

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Engaged in an escalating cyber-war with Iran, the United States has enlisted the help of allies, notably Britain and Israel, to counter Tehran’s cyber-attacks, The New York Times reported today. Citing a paper prepared for then-director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Keith B. Alexander, in 2013, the Times reported: It detailed how the...

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A pair of polls show a surge in anti-Semitic feelings in Great Britain, as well as growing unease among the Jews living there, the German news site, Deutsche Welle reported Thursday. In the first, conducted by the pollster YouGov for the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism (CAA), a lobby group, 45 percent...

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Amid a growing call for Israel to negotiate with Hamas just as Great Britain negotiated with the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), Eamonn MacDonagh responds in On the False Parallel Between Gaza and Northern Ireland, in the December 2014 issue of The Tower Magazine by saying that such comparisons are a “fairy tale” that...

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In Israel for a conference, Danny Cohen, the director of the BBC said yesterday that the rising anti-Semitism endangered the future of Jews in the United Kingdom. The Times of Israel reports: “I’ve never felt so uncomfortable being a Jew in the UK as I’ve felt in the last 12...

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Members of Iran’s political and military leadership have reportedly framed the decision to extend nuclear negotiations with the P5+1 nations – the United States, Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom and Germany – as a victory for the regime. Al Arabiya reports that Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari...

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Media outlets in the Arab world are reporting today extensively on the nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 powers, and largely denouncing the Western willingness to extend the deadline for achieving a nuclear agreement. According to certain commentators in Arabic language outlets, Iran held the upper hand in the last round of...

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VIENNA – Negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program have reached an impasse as foreign ministers from Iran and the P5+1 powers have announced that they are leaving Vienna, where talks have been ongoing for the past few days. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will be traveling back to Tehran later today, reportedly...

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The student union at Goldsmiths College in London voted against commemorating the Holocaust this week by a margin of 60 to 1. Education officer Sarah El-Alfy urged students to vote against the proposal, rejecting it as “Eurocentric” and “colonialist”. One unnamed student added that, “The motion would force people to remember things they may...

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