Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn “personally” intervened on behalf of his senior ally Chris Williamson to prevent him from being suspended from the party over a pattern of hostility toward the Jewish community, The Independent reported Thursday. Corbyn’s unsuccessful attempt to derail Williamson’s suspension happened just days after a group of nine...

The decision of the British Home Office earlier this week to ban the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah in its entirety could affect the organization’s capacity to raise money, The Jewish Chronicle reported Wednesday. The most visible effect of the ban will be the absence of Hezbollah flags at the annual Quds Day...

A United Nations report accusing the IDF of war crimes for its response to violent Hamas-led riots is marked by a “lack of expertise and muddled analysis,” a critique published Thursday by NGO Monitor assessed. The Jerusalem Post reported that the UN Human Rights Council commission of inquiry (COI) found that “IDF soldiers...

Every year, Fast Company magazine ranks the world’s 50 most innovative companies. This year, six companies from Israel made the list, and ISRAEL21c has featured all of them. Vayyar Imaging came in No. 2 in the “Middle East” category. The company’s low-cost 3D imaging technology is used in cars, smart homes, agriculture, robotics, medicine...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani rejected the resignation of Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who is now back on the job, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. According to reports, Zarif, who is often described as a moderate, submitted his resignation after a series of perceived slights, including his exclusion from a meeting...

Retail giant Walmart acquired Israeli artificial intelligence (AI) startup, Aspectiva, for an undisclosed sum, Globes reported Tuesday. Though no purchase price was announced, it is said to be several tens of millions of dollars. Aspectiva joined Walmart’s Store N° 8, which serves as an incubator for the retailer. It will stay in its Tel Aviv...

While in Moscow, where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Israelis would “continue to operate” against Iran’s entrenchment in Syria, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. Netanyahu said that he and Putin mostly discussed the deployment of Russian S-300 air defense systems...

Chris Williamson, a senior ally of embattled Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, has been caught on camera telling a meeting of the far-left Momentum group that the party had been “too apologetic” in its response to anti-Semitic complaints. Williamson, one of Corbyn’s leading supporters in parliament, said allegations of anti-Semitism...

Beginning on March 30, 2018 the Islamist terrorist group Hamas, which is in complete political and military control of the Gaza Strip, launched weekly riots at the Gaza-Israeli border, an effort known as “The March of Return.” The IDF has now released a report detailing the environmental, material, and human...

An African American law enforcement group has praised a Georgia-based exchange program with Israel for enhancing “public safety,” thereby contradicting a claim by the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign that joint exercises with Israeli law enforcement “militarize U.S. police forces.” In a letter published earlier this month, The National...