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Izzy Salant is a Los Angeles-based journalist and social media/digital marketing manager at JNS.

Maria Friedman, executive director of the Rhode Island Coalition for Israel, told JNS the goal was to “make sure Jewish students feel like they’re not alone.”
“It’s an hour of crisis,” Deborah Lipstadt, former U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, told JNS. “I think it’s a time when you have to try every avenue.”
People claiming to be part of the “Jewish Holocaust Claims Center” have been urging survivors and their relatives to submit claims.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s message celebrated Washington’s “enduring friendship with Morocco.”
“Holding a vote that seeks to demonize the Jewish homeland on a day when Jewish students will not be able to participate is exclusionary, biased and flat-out wrong,” Maryland Hillel stated.
“For many, being present in synagogue has become their way of pushing back against antisemitism,” said Rabbi Brian Strauss, who leads a Conservative synagogue in Houston.
U.S. President Donald Trump ordered flags at half mast to honor the founder of Turning Point USA, who was shot and killed at an event in Utah.
A spokesman for the House Committee on Education and Workforce told JNS that the hearing will reveal how “unions are escalating antisemitic discrimination.”
The Anti-Defamation League lists Betar US in its “glossary of extremism and hate” database.
“Canada will increase its efforts in supporting strong, democratic governance in Palestine,” a spokeswoman for the Canadian government told JNS.
A museum spokesperson told JNS that cleanup is still underway.
Steven Phillips, founder and executive director of JewishERGs, told JNS that a number of Jewish employees at Microsoft “avoided going to the campus” in the wake of anti-Israel protests at the computer software giant.