The United States did not threaten to cut its ties with the Palestinian Authority unless President Mahmoud Abbas agreed to enter direct peace negotiations with Israel, a U.S. State Department official said on Monday, adding, however, that there were consequences to the failure to advance the stalling peace talks.
Israelis faced down a deeply divided debate Monday over what to do about approximately 400 children of undocumented workers who are set for deportation, the New York Times reports.
In one of the more curious twists in Israeli politics, prominent figures on Israel’s right wing have begun pushing for a one-state solution with Israelis and Palestinians as equal citizens with full voting rights.
The painting of a swastika — the dark, ubiquitous signature of hateful vandals everywhere — will no longer be automatically considered an act of anti-Semitism under new guidelines for recording attacks against Jews announced by the Anti-Defamation League.
Two weeks after the American Jewish Congress suspended its operations, the American Jewish Committee has hired its highest-ranking professional.
Whenever I visit Poland, I\’m struck by how the intensity of the Jewish presence dwarfs the tiny number of Jews who actually live in the country.
The Zionist Organization of America wants the University of California to replace two members of the advisory council addressing anti-Semitism on UC campuses.
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