Orange County prosecutors didn't flinch Friday when a group of university student activists charged with disturbing an Israeli ambassador's speech last year at UC Irvine brought more than 60 supporters with them to court.

Instead, prosecutors filed a motion at the hearing to release grand jury transcripts from their investigation and handed out copies of court filings they said illustrated point by point how the students — "the Irvine 11" — conspired to disrupt Ambassador Michael Oren's spee

Arabic language courses will be mandatory in selected Israeli schools as a part of an effort to promote harmony between Jews and Arabs.

Jewish businessman Robert Harush who grew up in Ashkelon, Israel spends fortune on renovation of large Muslim house of worship in Montereau, France in effort to promote co-existence.

When John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt of Harvard published a report highlighting the efficacy of the Israeli lobby in molding US domestic and foreign policy, charges of malpractice and academic dishonesty were leveled at the authors.

Their paper, "The Israeli Lobby and US Foreign Policy," cited the organizational prowess of pro-Israel groups in marrying the media, think tanks, and numerous politicians into a unified front that muzzles criticism of the Jewish State.

However, in the vitriol exchanged by supporters and detractors of the paper, an illuminating section is overlooked.

Mearsheimer and Walt, in comparing the existence of the Israeli lobby to the likelihood of the existence of a similar Muslim or Arab grouping, say "pro-Arab interest groups, in so far as they exist at all, are weak, which makes the Israeli lobby's task even easier."

Although there is no national consensus data on the number of Muslims in the United States, estimates put the figure between six and seven million, equal to the number of Jews in the country. Each religious group accounts for two percent of the US population. While the global population of Jews is some 15 million, there are nearly 1.2 billion Muslims in the world.

CAIRO – Al-Hasan Muhtaseb, 13, and his brother Amir,10, were returning from their aunt’s house in the West Bank town of Al-Khalil (Hebron) when they were stopped by Israeli occupation force on 27 February.

Raising awareness about the impact of the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip, European Muslims are pressing hard to lift the merciless blockade on the 1.6 million people in the enclave...

CAIRO – While the Palestinians froze indirect talks over settlement building, the Israeli government of hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning 50,000 new setter units in Al-Quds (occupied East Jerusalem).

The choking Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip, home to nearly 1.6 million Palestinians, is not expected to be lifted any time soon, especially in view of the continued rift...

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM – At least 15 Palestinians were injured Sunday, February 28, when Israeli occupation forces stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest shrine.

CAIRO – An Israeli settler has been arrested for launching a series of attacks against Israeli-Arabs, in the latest assaults by extremist Jews, reported Haaretz on Friday, November 20..