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City Hall held invitation-only roundtable discussions in other communities, but both listening sessions near the city’s main Jewish neighborhood fell on Shabbat.
Ilya Shapiro of the Manhattan Institute told JNS that he is concerned that universities will see the change in congressional focus as “a reprieve from accountability.”
Ahmed Moor, who has called Hamas rocket fire “self-defense” and said that “‘Zionist Israel’ does not have the right to exist,” is the first candidate to announce that he’s taking on the pro-Israel stalwart.
“It will open up some space for the Democrats, who do care deeply about the relationship with Israel, to have a more positive agenda on how to deal with Israel to counter those who just want to isolate and punish Israel,” Joel Rubin told JNS.
“Most legislators don’t want this on the docket,” Dan Goldwin, a Jewish United Fund spokesman, told JNS.
The New York City Police Department told JNS that the 26-year-old was charged with assault and harassment.
Daniel Rosen, president of the American Jewish Congress, told JNS that Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City, wasn’t invited to the 35th International Mayors Conference in Jerusalem.
The U.S. president defended the strikes on Iran as essential to Israel’s survival, while saying renewed fighting was “highly unlikely” if negotiations progressed.
“I’ve been on the phone with a lot of unhappy Jewish people from across the country this morning,” B’nai B’rith International CEO Evan Bernstein told JNS. “I think people are scared. They’re nervous.”
The promotion of one of the president’s most partisan and hard-nosed lieutenants to one of the most powerful jobs in Washington may signal how Trump intends to respond to his party’s defeat in the midterms.
