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Mike Wagenheim

Mike Wagenheim

Mike Wagenheim is a Washington-based correspondent for JNS, primarily covering the U.S. State Department and Congress. He is the senior U.S. correspondent at the Israel-based i24NEWS TV network.

“The days of billions of dollars in taxpayer money flowing to foreign interests at the expense of our people are over,” the U.S. secretary of state said.
The Latin School of Chicago “does not tolerate antisemitism or any other form of hate,” wrote two administrators, announcing an internal probe into a second incident of a Third Reich-linked song being performed.
“There is real movement to restore balance in teaching and to bring back the idea that you really need to be objective in the classroom,” Alan Garber said.
James Fishback demanded a transcript of a supposed meeting between the Israeli prime minister and Jay Collins that doesn’t appear to have occurred.
“Iran’s ongoing provision of conventional weapons to Caracas is a threat to U.S. interests in our region,” a State Department spokesman said.
The funding will be channeled through a top U.N. official, who has made repeated misstatements about the Israel-Hamas war.
“They say now the most important thing for them is to bring Rani [home]. On this, we got a promise from all of them,” Itzik Gvili, father of Ran, told JNS.
The development is “neither provocative nor novel,” said Israel’s envoy, noting that Jerusalem alone stood up at the council against Somali atrocities in Somaliland decades ago.
The renewal comes as U.S. President Donald Trump said that Washington and Jerusalem “have an understanding regarding Syria.”
Ardently pro-Israel, Tammy Bruce told JNS earlier this year she doesn’t mind people thinking she’s Jewish: “I hope so,” she said.
Some of the countries in question have “very polemicized attitudes to Jewish history and what’s going on at the moment,” a study researcher told JNS.
The anti-Israel U.N. official, whom the United States government sanctioned, was an affiliated scholar at the Washington school.