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Jessica Russak-Hoffman

Jessica Russak-Hoffman is a reporter for JNS in Seattle.

Seattle Parks and Recreation said the Fedayeen Football League did not obtain required permits for matches at Cal Anderson Park and Green Lake Park, adding that the department does not review event marketing materials submitted by permit applicants.
“At our own endorsement meeting, when asked to condemn Hamas and its Oct. 7th attacks, she point-blank refused, turning the question into yet another attack on Israel,” the Broadway Democrats wrote about their decision not to endorse Darializa Avila Chavelier, who is running for Congress in New York.
“The gravity of the situation and its widespread impact on our school community make this not the right time for a celebration,” the school stated in an email to parents.
When FBI agents visited Dale Ankney to question him about his social media activity, he allegedly threatened to “cap” them, according to court filings.
“Somerville is not supposed to be conducting U.S. foreign policy,” Richard Rosen of the Brandeis Center told JNS.
The policy group praised U.S. and Israeli military gains against Iran but warned that the agreement lacks enforcement mechanisms, raises concerns about Hezbollah and should be submitted to Congress before receiving U.N. endorsement.
The participation of campus-affiliated groups like CUNY for Palestine “openly encouraging and providing support for terrorism and extremist ideologies,” Jayne Zirkle of EndJewHatred told JNS, “represents a serious challenge that universities can no longer ignore.”
Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, told JNS that the Memorandum of Understanding is a “disaster” that “stabs Israel in the back.”
“I am the one always encouraging students to get comfortable with opposing ideas,” a professor at Seattle Central College told JNS. “This is not it.”
“The defendant exploited the barbaric acts of terror perpetrated on Oct. 7, 2023, to attract donors to his fraudulent ‘humanitarian’ causes,” the U.S. Justice Department alleged.
“Am I going to say I’m going to take you to court?” the U.S. president told reporters at the G7 summit in France. “No, we’re going to bomb the hell out of them if they violate the agreement.”
Natalie Poulson told JNS that Democratic candidate Luc Jasmin III’s comments are “discrediting” and pointed to an increase in antisemitic incidents of Jew-hatred in the state.