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A guest op-ed in the New York Times by Gaza City’s Hamas-appointed mayor, Yahya R. Sarraj, decrying damage to buildings as Israeli forces have worked to free hostages has drawn equal measures of ridicule and disgust.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach was harassed Monday evening by anti-Israel activists while skating in Manhattan, according to video posted by Boteach online.

Israel has seized 30,000 explosives in the Gaza Strip since Hamas launched a war on October 7, a spokesman for the Israeli government confirmed on Tuesday.

Economist warns Western fight against inflation faces a serious knockback as Iran-backed attacks set to send the cost of imports spiraling. 

Israel’s Christian population is continuing to soar ever higher as persecution builds elsewhere in the Middle East, year-end figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) reveal.

President Recep Erdogan linked the Nordic country´s admission on U.S. approval of Turkey’s request to purchase F-16 fighter jets.

The U.S. military struck three sites used by Iran-backed terrorist forces in Iraq on Monday in response to a one-way drone attack that wounded three American personnel earlier in the day, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed Monday that the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza, where Hamas links had previously been found, was a terrorist base, where a car belonging to the late Arab Israeli hostage Samer Talalka had been found.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) posted on Christmas Eve that the story the birth of Jesus Christ paralleled the plight of Palestinians today, inverting the facts about both Jesus and contemporary Israel.

Pro-Palestinian protesters spent the weekend rioting, disrupting holiday travel, and targeting Christmas in general in an attempt to force Americans to listen to their concerns by causing them inconveniences, disturbing their holiday plans, and irritating them.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on Christmas Day laying out his three basic conditions for peace in post-war Gaza: destroy Hamas, demilitarize Gaza, and de-radicalize the Palestinian population.

Universities must ban DEI to rout out antisemitism, according to Jew­ish Insti­tute for Lib­er­al Val­ues founder David L. Bern­stein.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid a visit on Christmas to Israeli troops in the northern Gaza Strip, where the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have engaged in heavy fighting in recent weeks, and are on the verge of complete control of the area.

A Palestinian terrorist was captured on video firing at Israeli troops from within a school in Gaza, the latest example of terrorists using sensitive civilian sites to conduct their war, endangering Palestinian civilians.

Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, two Iranian-backed terror groups in the Gaza Strip, have rejected an Egyptian proposal to end the ongoing war by giving up power over the territory, according to Reuters on Monday.

Yayha Sinwar, the Gaza-based leader of Hamas responsible for the October 7 terror attack against Israel, issued his first public statement Monday since that event, proving that he is still alive and vowing to keep fighting — though his forces are losing, badly.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) warned in its annual report that religious freedom deteriorated around the world in 2023, a net loss driven by increasingly vicious crackdowns from theocracies like Iran and authoritarian regimes like China and Cuba.

2023 was a landmark year for drone warfare as the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) became increasingly widespread among combatants of every size and ideology.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continue to uncover massive Hamas tunnel complexes — some involving the sad discovery of the bodies of Israeli hostages.

TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media company whose role in spreading anti-Israel and antisemitic propaganda has come under scrutiny, refused an ad promoting awareness of the plight of Israeli hostages held by Hamas, deeming the ad “too political.”

Egypt, whose autocratic regime is supposedly a U.S. ally, has drafted a “peace” plan for Gaza that would save Hamas from destruction and reward it for terrorism by granting it a share in a postwar government with the Palestinian Authority.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a Christmas message on Sunday, Christmas Eve, thanking Christians around the world for their support for the Jewish state during its war against Hamas terror.

The Mediterranean Sea could be “closed” indefinitely by Iran if the U.S. and Israel continued “crimes” in Gaza, an Iranian state report Saturday warned.

The Biden administration has failed to react thus far to a direct attack by Iran-backed Houthi rebels from Yemen this weekend on a U.S. destroyer and two commercial ships in the Red Sea.

A group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators tried to disrupt Christmas weekend shopping in San Francisco’s Union Square on Saturday in the latest attack on the Christian holiday, seen by radical leftists as an example of bourgeois complacency.

Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant personally visited the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, which has been wrecked by fighting between Israel and Hamas terrorists, and issued a pointed warning to Hezbollah in Lebanon: this could be Beirut.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed a report that U.S. President Joe Biden had told him not to attack Hezbollah in Lebanon on the first day of the war, when the Iran-backed terror group joined Hamas in shelling Israeli civilians.

Where is the protest? That is the question Justin Bieber’s former manager Scooter Braun wants answered by the music industry after he accused it of ignoring the deadly Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel.

A University of Minnesota professor called to “dismantle” and “decolonize” the U.S. during an anti-capitalist, pro-Palestinian event.

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Biden 2024 Campaign Co-Chair Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) argued that President Joe Biden needs to be tougher with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and push him towards “a counterterrorism strategy, rather than a

Protesters shut down Christmas shopping on Oxford Street in London, blockading stores for supposedly supporting Israel’s war against Hama.

Spain has backed away from a U.S.-led coalition meant to deter the Iranian-backed Houthis from attacks on global shipping near the Bab-el-Mandeb strait at the southern end of the Red Sea.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken asked Thursday why the world was pressuring the victim of terror, Israel, instead of pressuring the terrorist “aggressor,” Hamas, whose surrender would end the war in Gaza and save the lives of many Palestinian civilians.

Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader in Gaza who was saved from brain cancer by Israeli doctors but returned to murdering Israelis, has thanked Iran, vowed to destroy Israel through terrorist attacks, and praised Qatari TV channel Al Jazeera as “the best pulpit.”

Turkish lawmaker George Aslan caused a controversy by delivering a Christian message to Assyrians in their Syriac language.

Syrian dictator Bashar Assad gave a speech on Monday in which he said the Jews in Palestine are pagan foreigners, not the biblical children of Israel, there is “no evidence” the Nazis killed six million Jews in the Holocaust, the Holocaust was just a pretext for moving European Jews into “Palestine,” and America was behind the rise of the Nazis before World War II.