In an op-ed published in The Algemeiner on Thursday, The Israel Project CEO and President, Josh Block, slammed the European Union for sabotaging “bipartisan US efforts to hold Iran accountable for its illicit nuclear and non-nuclear activities.” Block noted that “in the struggle for fundamental freedom, one would expect the...

In a major address on Wednesday night, French President Emmanuel Macron said his country will adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism to combat rising levels of anti-Jewish hate, Ben Cohen reported in The Algemeiner. Speaking at the annual dinner of the French Jewish umbrella group CRIF, Macron...

A group of angry Iranians attacked the Islamic Republic’s so-called “morality police” in a Tehran suburb on February 15 when authorities detained two young women for not wearing the hijab, The Daily Telegraph reported. Officers fired warning shots at the group in an attempt to disperse the crowd. Protesters were...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif refused to answer questions about his regime’s human rights abuses, indignantly telling an interviewer, “I am a human rights professor,” Al Arabiya reported Monday. Javad Zarif, Iranian regime's PR minister's circus in Munich: "I'm a human rights professor, hence, don't question me about the...

The Islamic Republic of Iran arrested, imprisoned, or executed at least 860 journalists in the three decades between the 1979 revolution and 2009, according to leaked Iranian justice department documents, the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Thursday. February 7 marks the 40th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution that...

After two years of leaving the post empty, the Trump administration has selected Los Angeles prosecutor Elan Carr as the State Department’s new Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, JTA reported Monday. Carr, a Jewish-American army veteran who served in Iraq, is the grandson of Holocaust survivors. He also...