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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.

“Iran has struck more Arab countries than Israel has in its entire existence,” the Israeli ambassador to the global body said.
“You can hear the disdain and disrespect shown to the beautiful Jewish families across Belgium,” said Bill White, of comments calling mohels “butchers by day” who circumcise as a “side job.”
A spokesman for the U.N. agency told JNS that it has sought information in vain from the United States, but a source close to a U.S. probe of UNRWA said that the latter withholds information.
The South American country said that it wasn’t picking sides in the case South Africa is bringing against the Jewish state but argued that the court must not expand the definition of “genocide.”
“This is a necessary, principled move confronting evil,” said Gideon Sa’ar, Israel’s foreign minister.
“If they are attacking the photo and not the message, then it is clear that my message was strong,” Vanessa Frazier wrote, “whether it was from that attack or not.”
“Antisemitism surfaces often enough, and in ordinary enough settings, that it cannot be dismissed as rare or confined to the margins of society,” Yoni Wieder, the Irish chief rabbi, told JNS.
Preventing Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon “not a matter of politics. It’s a matter of global security,” said Mike Waltz, Washington’s U.N. ambassador.