The U.N. Refugee Agency With Few Actual Refugees
Less than 5% of five million people deemed ‘Palestinian refugees’ meet the criteria for this status.
Mark Kirk
Let this be a warning to Biden: Iran has been cheating this whole time
Friday’s apparent assassination of the founder of Iran’s nuclear weapons program wasn’t just a setback for the regime’s nuclear ambitions — it was a timely reminder that the Iran nuclear deal...
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SWIFT Sanctions: Frequently Asked Questions
Memos
White House Deadlocked on Saving Iran Nuclear Deal As Protests Rock Islamic Republic
White House national security officials are focused on developing strategies to support and foster demonstrations in Iran that have gripped the country for more than a week, but are in a deadlock...
Op-eds
Israel’s Anti-BDS ‘Start-Up’ Ministry
In a wide-ranging interview with The Jerusalem Post, Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy officials announced the dawning of a new era in the government’s campaign against Isr...
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US-based BDS group seeks to lobby Congress
A campaign by a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions organization called “The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation” to lobby members of Congress against Israel on Capitol Hill has rais...
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Iran and the future of the Middle East
Nixon went to China. Obama will not be going to Iran. The 1972 visit of President Richard M. Nixon to the People’s Republic included meetings with both Chairman Mao Zedong, the com...
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Dem VP Nominee, Bipartisan Group of Senators Urge More Funding for Israel’s Missile Defense
A bipartisan group of senators has signed a public letter urging the Senate Armed Services Committee to include an additional $320 million for Israeli missile defense systems in the 2017 National...
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Analysis: Is the BDS movement facing economic warfare?
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement is staring down the barrel of economic warfare with financial assaults on BDS, replicating in many ways the sanctions architecture imposed on Iran t...
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Iran sought chemical and biological weapons in 2015, says German intel
Iran aggressively pursued biological and chemical weapons technology even as it negotiated an international deal to drop its nuclear program, according to a German intelligence report that follow...
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Exclusive: Second largest German bank shuts anti-Israel BDS account
In the latest of a series of similar account closures by international banks, German bank Commerzbank has shut down a boycott Israel account, the first action of its kind in that country, The Jer...
Op-eds
Kudos to Cuomo for leading the way on BDS
Gov. Cuomo’s issuance Sunday of an order banning New York State’s executive branch from doing official business with companies that participate in the boycott of Israel is the opening...
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Exclusive: Major French bank closes anti-Israel BDS account
The massive French bank Credit Mutuel shut down the account of La Campagne BDS France amid escalating criticism over the illegal practices of supporting financial transactions that target Israel...
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How New York can help stop Europe’s rampaging Israel boycotters
Co-written by Asaf Romirowsky In America, the odious boycott, divestment and sanctions movement targeting Israel remains largely confined to university humanities departments, l...
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Giant Austrian bank shuts down BDS account
One of Austria's largest companies – the Erste Group – closed a bank account held by BDS Austria. The Vienna-based BDS Austria announced on Friday on its ...
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German Bank defends neo-Nazi party and BDS bank accounts
The BW Bank in the German city of Stuttgart stood by its business accounts with a neo-Nazi party and a Palestinian group that seeks the destruction of Israel. “The [neo-Nazi party]...
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US Senator: Investigate German bank for anti-Semitic BDS support
A leading US Senator called on Wednesday for an investigation into Germany’s second largest bank, Commerzbank, because of possible violations of the Illinois State anti-BDS law that seeks t...
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U.S. Frowns on New Iran Sanctions by Congress After Missile Test
A top Treasury Department official argued against imposing new legislative sanctions on Iran after its ballistic missile tests last month, even as he said the Islamic Republic would remain blocke...
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Analysis: Iran’s War on Christians Casts Doubt on Nuclear Agreement
After his campaign promises in 2013 to guarantee the rights of religious minorities in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the country’s self-declared moderate President Hassan Rouhani has remain...
Op-eds
Obama’s Iran Policy Is Lost at Sea
American negotiators and their cohorts are trying to close a deal that would let Iran keep its nuclear program, subject to intricate conditions of monitoring and enforcement. Yet how is a deal li...