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Andrew Bernard

Andrew Bernard is the Washington correspondent for JNS.org.

The U.S. president met in the Oval Office with the Syrian president, a first for a head of state from the country.
“We have to do this work to figure out where it’s coming from, how it’s being supported, how it’s being spread,” Victoria Coates told JNS.
“I didn’t know much about this Fuentes guy. I still don’t, which underscores the mistake,” the Heritage president said as he faced calls from staffers to resign over his defense of Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes.
“The U.N. has violated its mandate—UNIFIL’s time is up,” Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon told JNS.
Supporters of Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa “hold the 11% blocking Cuomo from winning the race,” the Suffolk University Political Research Center wrote Monday.
“Jewish faculty members deserve to carry out their work free from discrimination,” Sen. Bill Cassidy wrote.
Republicans and Democrats grilled Amer Ghalib, the Trump administration’s nominee to be ambassador to Kuwait, over his views about Israel, Jews and the Middle East.
“The overwhelming majority of Sliwa supporters would not touch Andrew Cuomo with a 10-foot pole,” the Sliwa campaign told JNS.
“We will pursue the balance of the deceased until they all go home,” the U.S. special envoy said at the Holocaust Museum in Washington.
Ted Deutch, CEO of the American Jewish Committee, tells JNS what it was like to be in the Knesset as hostages were reunited with their families ahead of the U.S. president’s speech.
The Trump administration appeared to correct or clarify what two senior U.S. officials told reporters on a call.
“We have the hostages for the most part,” the U.S. president said. “The situation with the bodies, they say 28, some are going to be a little bit hard to find.”