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Sam Markstein, of the Republican Jewish Coalition, told JNS that Mamdani’s first veto as mayor “serves to accommodate vile antisemitic protests comes as no surprise.”
The new programs, which also include postdoctoral fellowships for Israelis, “strengthen Harvard’s academic engagement with Israel,” the Ivy League university said.
“We have since learned new information, including from the hospital that treated him and his medical records,” wrote a New York Times spokesperson.
The U.S. Justice Department “will force UCLA to pay a heavy price for putting Jewish Americans at risk,” stated Pamela Bondi, the U.S. attorney general.
Jacob Baime, CEO of the Israel Campus Coalition, told JNS that there has been “a huge surge in Jewish pride and interest” since Oct. 7.
“The settlement is believed to be the largest private settlement in campus antisemitism cases,” Becket stated.
“She lived with courage and conviction, instilling in her two children a deep love for Judaism and the Jewish people,” UJA-Federation New York stated.
The council “can, and must, adjust its sanctions so the Syrian government can prevail in the fight against terrorism, while keeping the most dangerous and unrepentant actors designated,” said Dorothy Shea, interim U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Sa’ad bin Atef al-Awlaki was appointed Al-Qaeda’s leader in the Arabian Peninsula in 2024 and has “publicly called for attacks against the United States and our allies,” according to the U.S. State Department.
The Senate minority leader stated that the reporting and images out of Gaza “underscore the dire human cost of this ongoing conflict.”
“Harvard will eventually come around,” Harrison Fields, a White House spokesman, told “The New York Times.”
The U.S. president “can be a catalyst for an end to the immediate crisis in Gaza and potentially a resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the long term,” the Saudi foreign minister said.
The motive of the 27-year-old shooter, who reportedly killed himself, isn’t publicly known.
