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U.S. President Joe Biden speaks from Nantucket, Mass. about the hostage release on Nov. 24, 2023. Source: YouTube/White House.

‘It’s only a start, but so far, it’s gone well,’ Biden says of hostage deal

Speaking on Friday from Nantucket, Mass., the U.S. president added that “Hamas doesn’t give a damn" about Palestinians and "I only trust Hamas to respond to pressure."

November 24, 2023

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with U.S President Joe Biden in Tel Aviv, Oct. 18, 2023. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

US: Hamas violates international law by using hospitals as terror bases

"It is a violation of the law of war to headquarter yourself in a hospital," said U.S. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby.

November 15, 2023

Palestinian patients line the halls in Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip on on Nov. 10, 2023. Photo by Flash90.

US intelligence confirms Hamas using hospitals for terror purposes

"That is a war crime," stated U.S. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, of hospital patients being used as human shields.

November 14, 2023

Jeremy Corbyn, then leader of the UK Labour Party in 2018. Credit: B. Lenoir/Shutterstock.

Antisemitism roundup: Nov. 14

Northwestern University’s new antisemitism prevention committee will also focus on anti-Palestinian hate. Jeremy Corbyn declines 15 times to say if Hamas is a terror group. One hundred State Department staffers say Israel commits war crimes.

David Swindle and Menachem Wecker

November 14, 2023

Deborah Lipstadt, U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, at the AJC GLobal Forum in Tel Aviv on June 12, 2023. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

Lipstadt to speak at DC ‘March for Israel,’ White House says

“The unity in our community is almost unprecedented,” said Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents.

November 13, 2023

From left: U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, U.S. President Joe Biden, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and Israeli National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi gather in Tel Aviv to discuss the war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Oct. 18, 2023. Credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO.

US: Israel has agreed to daily four-hour ‘humanitarian pauses’

The Prime Minister's Office responded by saying that "the fighting continues, and there will be no ceasefire without the release of our hostages."

November 9, 2023

Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, during a press conference on Nov. 7, 2023. Credit: YouTube/White House.

White House: ‘Not going into specifics’ about tearing hostage posters

Also on Tuesday, Sen. John Fetterman said he will display posters until every hostage is returned, and King Charles condemned Hamas’s “barbaric acts of terrorism.”

November 7, 2023

Sign at the building entrance to CAIR headquarters. Credit: DCStockPhotography/Shutterstock.

White House announces first-ever national strategy on Islamophobia

The move is aimed to "better coordinate U.S. government efforts to counter Islamophobia, antisemitism and related forms of bias and discrimination."

November 2, 2023

John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security Council of the White House, during a press briefing on Oct. 3, 2023 at the White House. Credit: Oliver Contreras/White House.

Reporters repeatedly ask State Department, White House if Israel abiding by laws of war

“That’s what war is. It’s brutal. It’s ugly. It’s messy,” said John Kirby, a National Security Council spokesman and retired U.S. Navy rear admiral.

October 27, 2023