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

Long accused of antisemitism, the United Nations celebrates many holidays on social media—none of them Jewish.
“Calls for genocide are monstrous and antithetical to everything we represent as a country,” a White House spokesman said. The president did not comment directly.
“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.