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Brandon Johnson, the Chicago mayor, decried the rise in antisemitic crimes and anti-gay crimes, which were up 25%.
The Democratic candidate’s N.Y. mayoral campaign is a case study in political warfare, drawing lessons from Hamas’s 2006 electoral strategy.
Jerusalem and the U.S. “will continue to strengthen [their partnership] in the fields of missile defense and drones,” Defense Minister Katz said.
The U.S. president imposed broad economic and travel bans on individuals investigating American citizens or allies, such as Israel.
The American children’s YouTube star finds herself at the center of a firestorm after collaborating with a Hamas-supporting photojournalist.
The student is suing “Harvard not only for failing to protect him and other Jewish students, but for defending and rewarding antisemitism,” his lawyer told JNS.
The House Judiciary committee released a memo based on 380 documents that it received in a probe of six nonprofits.
“Words like these incite violence, fuel hate and put Jewish families at risk,” said New Jersey Rep. Josh Gottheimer.
Pro-Israel groups welcomed the defeat of what they called a “reckless” and “attention seeking” amendment from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to remove the funding.
“The field of Israel studies is thriving, despite the stiff challenges it admittedly faces,” Alexander Kaye, director of Brandeis University’s Israel studies center, told JNS.
“From schools to sanitation to police, our administration will never allow antisemitism, or any other form of hate, to persist,” stated Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City.
“Such terrorists, enemies of the free world, should spend their lives in prison,” the Israeli embassy in Paris said.
