2014 Gaza War

May 15, 2023 | David May |

Amid Escalation in Gaza, Tunisian Soldier Murders Local Jews

A Tunisian national guardsman murdered two Jewish cousins and three Tunisian officers last Tuesday, turning a festive occasion into a tragedy. Aviel and Benjamin Haddad were among thousands of...

January 20, 2023 | |

Pentagon Transfers Some Israel-based Artillery Shells to Support Ukraine

The Pentagon is reportedly using part of a military stockpile it has maintained in Israel for decades to send hundreds of thousands of artillery shells to help the Ukrainian military defeat the Russian invasion. According to the New York Times, the United States has transferred approximately half of an expected total of 300,000 rounds of 155mm howitzer shells to Ukraine. The move represents a notable use of the Israel-based stockpile to aid a partner outside the region and compensate for insufficient domestic munitions production capacity in the United States.

January 16, 2023 | |

Hamas Releases Video of Israeli Hostage Held Since 2014

Latest Developments Hamas released an undated Hebrew-language video on Monday purporting to show Avera Mengistu, one of two Israeli civilians the Palestinian terrorist group is holding in the Gaza Strip....

April 8, 2022 | Lauri B. Regan, Jonathan Schanzer

Book Review: The Never Ending War

One ideological goal that has animated foreign policy decision-making over the past three U.S. administrations has been a desire to retreat from “forever wars.” For Israel, such a fantasy-driven ambition...

June 1, 2021 | Tony Badran |

Who Started the Gaza War?

America did

April 23, 2021 | David May |

Palestinian Elections

Parties, Polling, and Implications for U.S. Policy

April 10, 2021 | Jacob Nagel, Jonathan Schanzer

A Closer Look at Israel’s New High-Tech Barrier

Israel reported significant progress last month on an underground fence around the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Officials say Israel is close to completing the underground component and can see the finish...

June 21, 2019 | David May |

Rocket Attacks Are the Cause of Israel’s Blockade, Not Its Effect

After expending 700 rockets last month in attacks that killed four Israeli civilians, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) are busy ...

September 11, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

As Antisemitism Rises, Germany Labels Hezbollah Right-Wing Extremist Group

The German government reported to Green Party deputy Volker Beck on Friday an increase in the number of criminal antisemitic acts in the country. This includes Israel-related antisemitism, and th...

July 18, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

Berlin Mayor Rebuked Over Imam’s Call to Kill Jews and Stone Women

A Danish imam convicted for inciting hate after he preached for the extermination of Jews during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge in 2014 appeared on Friday in Berlin at a radical mosque,...

March 20, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

Germany MPS Investigate Pro-Hezbollah Academic Finkelstein

In a dramatic widening of an academic antisemitism scandal at the Max Planck Institute for the promotion of lectures delivered by a pro-Hezbollah instructor, German Green Party lawmakers began a...

January 30, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Muslim Students Protest Holocaust Remembrance, Attack Israel

Muslim students of Arab and Turkish origin protested participation in an International Holocaust Remembrance Day event in Germany, while their high school’s administration showed understand...

January 23, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Germany’s Split Personality: Courts Favor Antisemites, BDS Takes Hits

A regional court’s affirmation this month of a decision asserting that the arson at a synagogue in the city of Wuppertal in July 2014 was not motivated by antisemitism but was merely a plea...

January 13, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Court Calls Synagogue Torching an Act to ‘Criticize Israel’

A German regional court in the city of Wuppertal affirmed a lower court decision last Friday stating that a violent attempt to burn the city's synagogue by three men in 2014 was a justified...

January 10, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German University Suspends Pro-BDS Professor

The Free University in Berlin has cancelled academic assignments for a pro-BDS professor who allegedly engaged in anti-Semitic activities. In a tweet from the Free University sent to The...

November 3, 2016 | Grant Rumley |

Fatah sets date for top leadership elections

Fatah's top leadership body decided on Wednesday that the long-awaited seventh Fatah General Congress will take place at the end of November. “The Fatah Central Committee unan...

October 20, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Munich’s Schmock restaurant closes due to Israel-hate

The Jewish owner of Munich's Schmock Israeli restaurant announced on its website its closure after 16 years because of rising anti-Semitism in the Bavarian capital. Florian Gl...

August 24, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

How Hamas Allegedly Embezzles Millions in Christian Charity

The arrests of the head of a U.S. charity operating in the Gaza Strip—and of an UN engineer—put the international spotlight on terrorism finance in the nonprofit world. The&n...

May 16, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

Outrage over German university’s dismissal of anti-Semitism expert

“It is a scandal! It shows that critical research on right-wing radicalism/anti-Semitism is not desired in Germany," Julius Schoeps, a leading German Jewish historian and a descendant of th...

May 10, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

German Jews call for dismissal of self-declared Jew-hating pastor

The city of Bremen’s Jewish community blasted the local Evangelical Church for its failure to fire a pastor who openly declares himself an anti-Semite and plays a key role in stoking hatred...