Arab media says 31 people, including Syrian soldiers and Shiite militias killed when weapons shipment stored in Shayrat Airbase explodes. The base is known as a port for weapon deliveries headed to Hezbollah in Lebanon. Damascus says explosion an "accident."

Speaking at conference to address anti-Semitism, American Jewish Committee chief David Harris says, "Jews need to have a five-letter word: anger. Jews cannot be silent." "Where is our collective anger?" he asks, noting, "This is still within the lifespan of survivors, witnesses and liberators. This is happening on the blood-soaked soil of Europe."

"The third step in reducing commitments to [the nuclear deal] will be implemented in the current situation," Iran's Foreign minister Mohammad Zarif says. "If [the deal] is not completely implemented by others, then we will also implement it in the same incomplete manner," he says.

In the 20th century, many tried to fashion international human-rights law into a defense mechanism to protect minorities. How it became a weapon used against the Jewish people is tragic.