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“The meeting went very well,” the president wrote. “The United States is going to work with Lebanon in order to help it protect itself from Hezbollah.”
Two of those arrested during the breach were current Microsoft employees.
“In my lifetime, it’s never been tougher to be a Jew in America,” Rep. Brad Sherman told JNS.
“The United States and Israel have a moral obligation to address the dire conditions that threaten the lives of Palestinian families,” the legislators wrote to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
After a Democratic National Committee panel rejected the anti-Israel resolution, the DNC chair withdrew his own measure, which had passed and was more in line with the Democratic Party platform.
“We are alarmed by the continued rise of antisemitic incidents on America’s college campuses. No student should be forced to hide their identity out of fear,” read a bipartisan statement.
Israel and Lebanon losing trust completely “in this very sensitive transition period would be risky and would not really serve anybody’s interest,” a senior U.N. official told JNS.
“Famine is now occurring in northern Gaza and expected to expand to southern Gaza,” per the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, which is part of the U.S. State Department.
“We condemn these acts in the strongest possible terms,” the police department in Concord, Mass., stated.
European powers appear to be ready to decide soon whether they think Iran is serious about nuclear talks or whether sanctions are in order.
“Israel cannot agree to this,” the Jewish state’s foreign minister told leaders who are part of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
The chair of the committee wrote to the leaders of three schools about what he called their “failures to address antisemitism, as required under Title VI.”
A U.S. State Department spokesman defended Charles Kushner after the French government decried the U.S. ambassador.
