Defying calls from the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign to cancel her performance at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv, Australia’s nominee, Kate Miller-Heidke, said she believed “in the power of music and art to actually provoke discussion and inspire.” Miller-Heidke defended her decision to perform...

The Arab world must take initiatives to make Israel overcome “fears for its future” as a Jewish state in the Middle East, Oman Minister of Foreign Affairs said Saturday at the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Jordan. “The West has offered Israel political, economic and military support and...

A senior Human Rights Watch (HRW) official has come under fire after she accused Israel of “interference” in British politics to undermine the Labour Party. Sarah Whitson, the Middle East and North Africa director of HRW, asked on Twitter why “Israel interference” was “acceptable in UK politics.” She added: “Is...

The city of Ramla, together with 14 NGOs, is celebrating the International Day of Sport and Peace (April 7). The event was established in 2013 by the United Nations and the International Olympic Committee to honor sport as a catalyst for social change. Some 3,000 events in 180 countries will...

An explosive report in The Sunday Times revealed that the British Labour Party, under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, has failed to investigate hundreds of cases of anti-Semitism by party members, despite more than 850 recorded complaints. The newspaper detailed a disturbing pattern of “delays, inaction and interference from the...

In an unprecedented move, the United States designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Quds Force, the extraterritorial branch of the IRGC, as a terrorist organization on Monday. It is the first time that the U.S. has designated another nation’s army as a terrorist group. “The IRGC is the...

Israeli archaeologists unearthed the remains of a Jewish settlement of the Second Temple era in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva, revealing evidence of daily Jewish life and even rebellion. The site of the settlement, which dates from the 1st century CE to the Bar-Kochva Revolt of 135 CE, was...

A professor at Columbia University – known for his hostility toward Israel and support for the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement – has said that the only difference between the Jewish State and the Islamic State is that Zionist columnists defend Israel’s “terrorist cause.” Hamid Dabashi, a professor...

The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) has taken particular aim at Israel’s tourism industry. Tourism accounts for about 11 percent of global GDP and 350 million jobs worldwide — more than ten percent of employment on the planet. In Israel, tourism is more than just sun, seashore, and spirituality;...

In the latest legal blow to the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, a court in Spain has ruled that a city council that canceled an Israeli film festival in support of boycotts violated fundamental principles enshrined in the Spanish constitution. The Spanish daily newspaper El Mundo reported that...