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Andrew Bernard

Andrew Bernard

Andrew Bernard is the Washington correspondent for JNS.org.

The U.S. education secretary told reporters on Tuesday that the department is taking an “all hands on deck” approach to tackling antisemitism.
Visiting Israel in 2014 was “one of the most formative and transformative experiences” in the N.Y. Democrat’s life, he told JNS.
GOP leaders, who proposed stand-alone Israel funding, said the Senate bill is “dead on arrival,” for insufficiently addressing the immigration crisis on the U.S. southern border.
“We’re going to keep coming here until every hostage is home,” said Ron Halber, head of the JCRC of greater Washington, at the Qatari embassy.
“How much Iran knew or didn’t know, we don’t know. But it really doesn’t matter, because Iran sponsors these groups,” Lloyd Austin said.
“We have to replace UNRWA with something else,” said Rep. Brad Schneider. “I support getting rid of UNRWA.”
A member of the so-called anti-Israel “Squad,” the scrutiny is associated with the misuse of security funds.
Tehran is moving closer to accessing frozen funds, according to Iranian and Qatari readouts of a call between the nations’ foreign ministers.
Iran increasingly works with criminal actors “to obscure links to the government of Iran and maintain plausible deniability,” the U.S. Treasury Department stated.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson wrote to colleagues that the $106 billion supplemental was unlikely to have support in the House.
“I know that the Qataris have been involved in negotiations,” Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-Md.) said. “But we really need to make sure they understand the urgency of the moment.”
The former and current presidents’ primary wins point toward a likely 2020 rematch.