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March for Israel

Nearly 300,000 people attended the "March for Israel" rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14, 2023. Photo by Shay Shohat/Flash90.

‘LA Times’ defends using 44% lower crowd numbers than ‘March for Israel’

Some of the sources of those statistics and the scholars crunching the numbers have been very critical of Israel on social media.

Menachem Wecker

November 29, 2023

Jewish Voice for Peace. Photo courtesy of NGO Monitor.

Sincere or sanctimonious?

Will we sell our souls to claim the moral high ground?

Rabbi Yossy Goldman

November 22, 2023

Buses of Yeshiva University students came from New York City to attend the "March for Israel" rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14, 2023. Courtesy: Yeshiva University.

Going to ‘March for Israel’ part of curriculum, senior Yeshiva administrator says

Some 2,500 students, faculty and staff attended the Nov. 14 rally in Washington, D.C.

Elishama Marmon

November 21, 2023

Nearly 300,000 people attended the "March for Israel" rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14, 2023. Photo by Shay Shohat/Flash90.

What was the purpose of the ‘March for Israel’?

The participants had no direction to go in because the organizers didn’t provide them with one.

November 21, 2023

An estimated 300,000 attended the “March for Israel” rally in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14, 2023. Credit: JNS.

‘I wanted to be a part of the historic crowd,’ says ‘March for Israel’ attendee

Some of the reported nearly 300,000 attendees told JNS that they were motivated to come to Washington by Jewish unity and to send a message to the federal government.

Elishama Marmon

November 16, 2023

Itai Yanai (with son Ben on his shoulders), and Shelli Robbins and Noam Bar-Touv, at the “March for Israel” on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14, 2023. Credit: Courtesy of Itai Yanai.

DC rally attendee: ‘It felt like every Jew in the world was there with us’

A few of the nearly 300,000 people who came to the “March for Israel” in Washington shared their stories with JNS.

Izzy Salant and Menachem Wecker

November 15, 2023

Pastor John Hagee, founder and chairman of Christians United for Israel, addresses the nearly 300,000 attendees of the “March for Israel” rally in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14, 2023. Source: Screenshot.

Hagee: Israel’s leaders ‘should determine how this war is to be conducted’

The Christian Zionist leader said he was there to deliver the singular message that the Jewish state is not alone.

November 15, 2023

Nearly 300,000 people attended the "March for Israel" rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14, 2023. Photo by Shay Shohat/Flash90.

Stopping antisemitism needs more than a successful rally

The “March for Israel” in Washington, D.C., was a great response to pro-Hamas mobs. But ending the source of a rising tide of Jew-hatred requires opposing the woke ideology that created it.

Jonathan S. Tobin

November 15, 2023

From left: Randall Kaplan, husband of Rep. Kathy Manning (D-N.C.); Sheila Katz, CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women; Manning; Ted Deutch, CEO of the American Jewish Committee; actress Debra Messing; and Jill Deutch, wife of Ted Deutch, at the "March for Israel" rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14, 2023. Credit: AJC.

‘A whole lot at stake’ in US aid package to Israel, AJC head says

The rally sends the message to Washington “that we’re appreciative for the support for Israel and for the Jewish community, but that we need to see even more,” said AJC CEO Ted Deutch.

November 15, 2023