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FIRST ON FOX – A Global Peace Flag exhibit at the United Nations New York City headquarters features a slogan that many Israelis regard as an explicit call to wipe Israel off the map.

Almost 6,000 structures have been affected in border villages, including at least nine religious sites demolished in ...

The militant group has launched dozens of attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea region since November in solidarity with Palestinians in the war between Israel and Hamas. "These operations ...

President-elect Donald Trump has been filling out his administration in the week since his landslide election. On Tuesday, he ...

Israel does not want an endless war, Ofir Akunis, the consul general of Israel in New York, told JNS in a sit-down interview at his office on Thursday. “We, the Jewish people, prefer peace,” he ...

In searching for a place to celebrate Sukkoth, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles, Reform Rabbi Jerome Unger could hardly have picked a less hospitable nation than Israel. The town council of Kfar ...

Israel is conducting simultaneous military operations in both Gaza and Lebanon, which are subject to heavy bombardments.

"The regime in Iran and its proxies in the region have been relentlessly attacking Israel since October 7th — on seven fronts ...

When patients who have appointments at the Planned Parenthood in Carbondale, Illinois, are late, staff members often know ...

Many international experts have warned that Israel’s assault amounts to a genocideSouth Africa brought its genocide case ...