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Menachem Wecker

Menachem Wecker is the U.S. bureau news editor of JNS.

“Throughout our careers, we often disagreed. And often strongly,” the U.S. president said, hours after U.S. Secretary of State Blinken released a much heftier statement.
Some of the sources of those statistics and the scholars crunching the numbers have been very critical of Israel on social media.
The U.S. president also called for a two-state solution as the only path forward to peace and more humanitarian aid for Palestinians in remarks about the release of 14 Israeli and three Thai hostages on Nov. 26.
“Negotiating with terrorists never works. Biden’s insistence that Israel bargain with Hamas is as tragically wrong as his swapping $6 billion with Iran for five U.S. hostages,” wrote the former U.S. official John Bolton.
“The political disagreement will not go away” between Washington and Jerusalem, Shoshana Bryen, senior director of the Jewish Policy Center, told JNS.
A few of the nearly 300,000 people who came to the “March for Israel” in Washington shared their stories with JNS.
Northwestern University’s new antisemitism prevention committee will also focus on anti-Palestinian hate. Jeremy Corbyn declines 15 times to say if Hamas is a terror group. One hundred State Department staffers say Israel commits war crimes.