On April 16, 2018, the Durham, North Carolina City Council passed a statement on policing, which made Durham the first city in the United States to ban police trainings specifically with Israel. Council member Mark-Anthony Middleton has repeatedly and publicly said that it was unnecessary to single out Israel in...

Everyone knows plastic is bad for the environment. That’s why bioplastics – plastics made from renewable sources like plants or old waste – were invented. But these bioplastics can’t be created everywhere since the plants they use require fresh water, a scarce resource in many countries. One such country is...

Asked to repudiate a previous condemnation of the anti-Israel boycott movement, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded, “I will continue to condemn the BDS movement,” at a town hall meeting on Tuesday. The town hall meeting was held at Brock University in St. Catherine’s Ontario. Part of Trudeau’s response was explaining...

A general of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said that Iran would keep its military forces in Syria, despite a warning from Israel earlier this week, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported Wednesday. “The Islamic Republic of Iran will keep its military advisers, revolutionary forces, and its weapons in Syria,” Major...

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, said Tuesday that the Palestinian Authority (PA) “should stop spending 7 percent of its annual budget on inciting and paying terrorist salaries, and instead use it to develop its infrastructure and help its people,” Ben Cohen reported in The Algemeiner. Danon was...

Days before the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, President Donald Trump signed into law on Monday new bipartisan legislation committing the United States to prevent genocide and to confront anti-Semitism at home and abroad, JNS reported. The first measure, named in honor of Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize...

The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have threatened to launch more drone attacks, after a strike on a Yemeni government military parade in the southern province of Lahaj killed several people last week, The Daily Telegraph reported Sunday. The Houthis’ acts of aggression against the internationally recognized Yemeni government has...

Dust storms, torrential rain, snow — and a bit of sunshine, too – are in the mix this week in Israel as January brings unusually wet, cold weather. The storms, along with colder temperatures in mid-week, are forecast for the entire region stretching from Turkey through Israel to Jordan. Flash...

Former IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot told New York Times columnist Bret Stephens that during his tenure as Israel’s top soldier, Israel hit “thousands” of Iranian targets in Syria, the latter wrote in a column published Friday. Eisenkot was describing Israel’s efforts to prevent Iran from establishing...

Israel’s air force is to take part in its first-ever joint exercise with the Royal Airforce in Britain in the most open level of cooperation between the two forces yet, The Jewish Chronicle reported Tuesday. The IAF has been invited to take part in the annual Cobra Warrior exercise at...