Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan calls on US, Spain, Belgium, Norway, France, Brazil, India, Germany, and Britain to cease support to boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. By disguising themselves as human rights activists, BDS organizations are able to raise millions of euros from Western states, he says.

American allies in the Middle East and beyond point finger at Tehran after US shows evidence that it was behind attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday. Iran decries "Iranophobic campaign" waged by the United States.

Israeli warplanes strike several Hamas military sites, including a training base and naval compound in the Gaza Strip early Friday, after a rocket fired from Gaza hits a yeshiva in Sderot. No casualties reported.

While the State Department establishment rejects Friedman’s assessments, its own track record in the Middle East has been systematically flawed.

Cadet Martha Gerdes goes faces disenrollment from program at the University of North Carolina. In one tweet, posted after the Pittsburgh shooting, Gerdes reportedly wrote she didn't care about "Jews getting shot up."