British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, who is under fire for his unwillingness to confront anti-Semitism, voiced apparent sympathy for the motives of Palestinian suicide bombers during a debate at Cambridge University, The Jerusalem Post reported Friday. In a video posted on Twitter by freelance journalist Iggy Ostanin, Corbyn can...

Iran has launched a three-day naval exercise in the Persian Gulf, Seth Frantzman reported Friday in The Jerusalem Post. Frantzman termed the exercise “provocative.” Commander of the Iranian Navy Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi announced the start of the “Velayat 97” exercise Thursday. According to Khanzadi, the exercise will be comprised of four elements:...

In Israel, only 8 percent of startups are led by women. And while that’s not very different from the rest of the world, it does imply that Startup Nation isn’t actually that nationwide. In response, the Israel Innovation Authority, the government body in charge of supporting research and development in...

German President Frank Walter-Steinmeier was criticized for sending Iran a congratulatory telegram on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Republic’s founding, Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. In a statement to the Post, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said that 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...

Joan Ryan, one of eight Labour politicians who resigned from the party this week over anti-Semitism, wrote in an exclusive article for The Jewish Chronicle on Wednesday that a government led by Jeremy Corbyn “would be, as British Jews have claimed, an existential threat to the community.” She said Labour...

Israel has been countering Iranian efforts to use suitcases to smuggle GPS components into Syria to upgrade Hezbollah’s rocket arsenal, Neri Zilber reported Thursday for The Daily Beast. In 2017, once it appeared that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad would survive the civil war that was tearing his country apart, Zilber,...

The Trump administration has kickstarted a global campaign to end the criminalization of homosexuality in dozens of countries following the reported hanging of a young gay man in Iran, Benjamin Weinthal wrote in The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. The initiative is aimed in part at denouncing the Islamic Republic over...

As I recently reported in the Tower, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) is hosting their Minority Health Conference on February 22, featuring keynote speaker Linda Sarsour. The American-Palestinian activist is known for her hostility towards Israel, having said “nothing is creepier than Zionism” and advising Muslims...

After eight years of preparations by 250 people, $100 million and a large dose of Israeli chutzpah, the SpaceIL Israeli unmanned spacecraft Beresheet is scheduled for liftoff from Cape Canaveral Kennedy Space Center at 8:45pm February 21 local Florida time, aiming to reach the moon on April 11. At a prelaunch press...