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The Focus Project is a consensus initiative of major American Jewish organizations that provides crucial news, talking points and background content about issues affecting Israel and the Jewish people, including antisemitism, anti-Zionism and relevant events in the Middle East. Click here to receive weekly talking points.
The campus of Texas A&M University in Qatar. Credit: Arwcheek/Public Domain Wikimedia Commons.
The Wire
Qatar buys its way into American schools, businesses, politics, energy
A single foreign monarchy has reached its way into U.S. society, and almost no one was watching.
June 12, 2026
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Weapons uncovered by troops of the IDF’s 91st Division in Southern Lebanon on the week of May 10, 2026. Credit: IDF.
The Wire
Iran’s war on the US and Israel runs through Hezbollah
For decades, the terror organization based in Lebanon has overruled the country’s elected leaders and murdered those who defied it.
June 5, 2026
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Sexual War Crimes, Women
The Wire
Narrative war on sexual violence: False claims and double standards
At a time of pervasive antisemitism, weaponized language is used to paint every Jew as complicit in an imagined evil.
May 29, 2026
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The Ruth Leff Siegel Student Center at Sarah Lawrence College. Credit: SaidieLou via Wikimedia Commons.
The Wire
Some universities start acting against anti-Jewish and anti-Israel hate
This viral scourge did not retreat from American campuses. It mutated.
May 22, 2026
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Abraham Foxman, then-national director of the Anti-Defamation League, in 2009. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.
The Wire
Abraham Foxman: The esteemed American leader provided moral clarity
The question he leaves behind is not how to mourn him, but how to preserve his legacy.
May 15, 2026
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Sarah Sackman,
The Wire
Worldwide communities push back on hate
Governments are listening more as attacks on Jews become more deadly, but are not yet acting with the urgency that the moment demands.
May 8, 2026
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A pro-Palestinian protest. Credit: Alfo Medeiras/Pexels.
The Wire
Silent crisis: Jewish students still face retribution on American campuses
As graduation season approaches—and with it, the likelihood of politicized speeches and protests—young Jews will walk across stages at many universities that too often failed them.
May 1, 2026
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Candles on the eve of Israel's Memorial Day, as the country commemorates fallen soldiers and victims of terror, April 20, 2026. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.
The Wire
From loss to liberty: Israel commemorates its fallen and celebrates 78 years
That balance between loss and purpose defines both the individual and the nation.
April 24, 2026
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Star of David in Sicily, Italy
The Wire
‘Never Again’ is now: Holocaust memory under siege
Worldwide Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day took place on April 14.
April 17, 2026
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