JNS The Daily Syndicate - Thursday, February 8, 2024

Thursday, February 8, 2024


	THE DAILY SYNDICATE

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and U.S. President Joe Biden at the Brent Spence Bridge, a double-decker cantilevered truss bridge that carries Interstates 71 and 75 across the Ohio River between Covington, Ky., and Cincinnati, which will see an improvement project as a result of the bipartisan infrastructure bill, Jan. 4, 2023. Credit: Official White House Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

from the editor-in-chief

Jonathan S. Tobin

Aid to Israel was taken hostage by Ukraine

Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell’s insistence that the Jewish state would get nothing unless Ukraine got far more killed the remains of the bipartisan pro-Israel consensus.

U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Credit: Andrea Izzotti/Shutterstock.

Senate votes to proceed on clean $95.3 billion aid bill for Israel, Taiwan, Ukraine

Andrew Bernard

Vedant Patel, principal deputy spokesman at the U.S. State Department, at the department's press briefing on Sept. 6, 2022. Credit: Freddie Everett/U.S. State Department.

State Department ‘aware’ of two Americans detained by Israel in Gaza

Andrew Bernard

The canteen at York University in Toronto, Canada. Credit: Pere Rubi/Shutterstock.

York University students disappointed, but ‘kind of used to’ Jew-hatred on campus

Dave Gordon

The Morningstar financial services building in downtown Chicago. Credit: Adriana.Macias/Shutterstock.

Report: Unnecessary for Morningstar to refer to ‘occupied territory’ to assess companies

Mike Wagenheim

Péter Szijjártó, foreign minister of Hungary, arrives for a meeting on Sept. 8, 2017. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/EU2017EE Estonian Presidency.

Top Hungarian diplomat confirms Budapest issued passports to five hostages

Mike Wagenheim

Israeli forces operating in the Gaza Strip, Feb. 8, 2024. Credit: IDF.

IDF commandos expand Khan Yunis assault ahead of Rafah operation

Akiva Van Koningsveld

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets Israeli Minister-without-Portfolio Benny Gantz at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, Feb. 8, 2024. Credit: Courtesy.

Blinken meets Gantz, Lapid on second day of Israel visit

Argentinian President Javier Milei (left) and Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the home in Kibbutz Nir Oz of the Bibas family, who are still captives in Gaza, Feb. 8, 2024. Source: X.

Argentina’s president calls Hamas ‘21st-century Nazism’

Etgar Lefkovits

U.S. House of Representatives building and the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol. Photo Photo by Ron Cogswell.

Gottheimer guides bipartisan group in call for resignation of UN officials

David Swindle

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, during a hearing about antisemitism on campus with the presidents of Harvard, Penn and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Dec. 5, 2023. Credit: House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Harvard stalls, as Penn preps to hand Jew-hatred documents over to House

Alex Soros in 2012. Credit: Nathalie Schuller via Wikimedia Commons.

Alex Soros deflects antisemitism related to Open Society Foundations

Thousands of Israelis take part in a rally in front of the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on Feb. 8, 2024. Photo by Eyal Buchris/TPS.

Thousands rally in Jerusalem against ending Hamas war

Amelie Botbol

Police cars in Long Beach, N.Y. Credit: City of Long Beach New York Police Department.

Hate-crime charges against Palestinian who stole flag, punched Jewish man

An Israeli Air Force jet seen near the border with Lebanon, Jan. 8, 2024. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

Drone strike kills senior Hezbollah terrorist in Southern Lebanon

An Israeli flag in the Jordan Valley, near the community of Ma'ale Efraim, Jan. 2, 2014. Photo by Uri Lenz/Flash90.

Jewish population in Judea and Samaria up 15,000 in 2023

Akiva Van Koningsveld

Ruins at Kibbutz Be'eri, Jan. 1, 2024. Photo by Gideon Markowicz/TPS.

Four months after Oct. 7, rebuilding of Kibbutz Be’eri begins

jns tv

Jonathan S. Tobin

Oct. 7 is a turning point in American antisemitism

“Top Story with Jonathan Tobin” and guest Alvin Rosenfeld

Dan Diker

Mayor of Efrat: The West Bank is a powder keg

“Our Middle East: An Insider's View” with Dan Diker and Khaled Abu Toameh, and guest Oded Revivi

opinion

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in Tel Aviv on Jan. 9, 2024. Credit: Chuck Kennedy/U.S. State Department.

the column

Melanie Phillips

Israel’s American frenemy

Instead of regarding Iran as the mortal enemy not just of Israel, but of America and the civilized world, the Biden administration is treating it as an asset that must be protected.

David Notowitz

We should not stoop to lies

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