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Menachem Wecker

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

The president’s message on the five-year anniversary of the attack on Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue came days after the White House press secretary answered a question about rising antisemitism by commenting on Islamophobia.
The survey also found that 38.6% of Muslim Americans approve of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
“I again ask the community to remain patient while our investigators and law enforcement partners continue their work,” said James E. White, Detroit police chief.
“The world has lost a great man and a great scholar,” wrote Richard Ovenden, head of the Bodleian Libraries at University of Oxford.
“We know Hamas is going to commandeer that money, and Hamas is going to use it to advance terrorism,” stated Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a presidential candidate.
Egypt’s president said the massacre of 1,400 Israelis was the result of “accumulated fury and hatred.”
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who is leading a bipartisan delegation of U.S. senators in Israel, said that the Senate will act swiftly in the hopes that the House of Representatives will do the same.
U.S. President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other officials appear to be shifting their tone somewhat.
The former president, who is running for his old job, touted his record as the most pro-Israel U.S. president in history in a talk to supporters in West Palm Beach, Fla.
The U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism had said in June, when the White House invited CAIR to advise its antisemitism strategy, that CAIR should be judged going forward. It recently blamed Israel for the Hamas attacks.
The Biden administration’s decision to invite the Council on American-Islamic Relations to be part of the strategy was like inviting “some butchers to National Vegetarian Day,” Gil Troy told JNS in May.
“With antisemitism bubbling to the surface,” an executive of the publisher told JNS, “this book asks us again: What kind of Canada do we want to be?”