On Saturday March 23, I attended UNC-Chapel Hill’s (UNC-CH) “Conflict Over Gaza,” which I had hoped might possibly be constructive but in reality, was an anti-Israel hate-fest. The three-day conference was sponsored by UNC’s Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies and the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies. As...

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After a tension-filled day, a rocket was fired into southern Israel from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, sending thousands of residents to shelters, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. Israel warned that it was ready to launch additional strikes against terror targets in Gaza, as the IDF moved more troops to...

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Hamas announced that it had an accepted an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire with Israel after a day of escalation, following a rocket attack by the Gaza-based terror group that destroyed a house in central Israel, The Times of Israel reported Monday. Israeli officials did not confirm that a ceasefire had been agreed...

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A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck a residential building in central Israel early Monday morning. According to the IDF, the launch was carried out from a Hamas installation in the Rafah area in southern Gaza. The attack left seven injured, including two infants, The Times of Israel reported....

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In explaining why he created an NGO to publicize the morality of the IDF, Avihai Shorshan recalled that he had two friends who died in 2014 because they tried “to do their mission without harming civilians” during Operation Protective Edge, The Jerusalem Post reported Friday. Shorshan, whose group, My Truth, made...

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More than 70 Palestinian journalists have been targeted by the Islamist terror organization Hamas during recent civil rights protests against the group’s misrule in the Gaza Strip, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. Mohammed al-Lahham, a senior official with the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS), said during a press conference in Ramallah that...

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The report by a Commission of Inquiry (COI) appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to investigate Israel’s handling of the violent Hamas-orchestrated riots, beginning March 30 of last year, is marked by “flight from consistency and common sense,” two legal scholars argued in a paper published Monday...

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The British Labour Party faced fresh accusations of anti-Semitism on Wednesday amid reports that leader Jeremy Corbyn accused Britain of “conceding to Zionist forces” in allowing the creation of the State of Israel. Corbyn allegedly made the comments in a 2011 pamphlet, written by Labour MPs Sir Gerald Kaufman and...

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As protests against Hamas’s rule in Gaza continue, Fatah, the faction headed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, accused the terror group of beating and severely injuring its spokesman, Agence France-Presse reported Monday. Hamas, the terrorist organization that exercises complete political and military control over Gaza, has denied the charge...

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A United Nations envoy has condemned the terrorist group Hamas, which exercises complete political and military control over the Gaza Strip, for the use of violence against protesters and journalists, The Times of Israel reported Sunday. As protests against Hamas for high prices have continued since last week, the terror...

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