JNS The Daily Syndicate - Friday, May 10, 2024

Friday, May 10, 2024


	THE DAILY SYNDICATE

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters gather in front of the Colorado Convention Center, the site of the opening plenary of the Jewish National Fund-USA annual conference in Denver, Nov. 30, 2023. Photo by Carin M. Smilk.

from the editor-in-chief

Jonathan S. Tobin

Liberal media is still in denial about post-Oct. 7 antisemitism

Rather than acknowledge the link between woke ideology and hate, “The New York Times” tries to blame the problem on their conservative political foes.

Israeli Air Force F-35 Stealth Fighter jet flying during an airshow at Hatzerim on June 28, 2018. Credit: Andreas Zeitler/Shutterstock.

State Dept raises ‘serious concerns’ about arms transfers to Israel

Andrew Bernard

Gilad Erdan, Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, shreds a page of the Charter of the United Nations as he addresses the resumed 10th Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly on “Illegal Israeli actions in occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory" on May 10, 2024. Credit: Manuel Elías/U.N. Photo.

At UNGA, Palestinians get novel rights for non-member observer, no membership

Mike Wagenheim

Friends and relatives mourn at the funeral of IDF Sgt. Barkey Ishai Shor on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on July 29, 2014. Shor was one of 66 Israeli soldiers killed during last summer's war with Hamas. Credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90.

1,594 Israeli soldiers and civilians killed since last Memorial Day

Centrifuges at the Iran nuclear energy exhibition in the Islamic Revolution and Holy Defense Museum in Tehran, 2018. Credit: Maps/Shutterstock.

Iran exploiting world’s focus on Gaza to advance nuclear weaponization

Israel Kasnett

Eden Golan, winner of the reality show “The Next Star to Eurovision,” during the final competition on the show, Feb. 6, 2024. Photo by Koko/Flash90.

Eden Golan defies Israel’s Eurovision haters

Eran Swissa

A World War II cattle car traveling exhibit teaching lessons of the Holocaust was stationed in Washington, D.C., from May 6-9, 2024. Credit: Courtesy of Hate Ends Now.

Visceral reminder of Holocaust in form of cattle car exhibit in Washington

Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim in Charleston, S.C. Photo by Menachem Wecker.

With 275 years of ghosts, Charleston’s Jewish leaders bullish on its future

As South Carolina’s Reform congregation Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim closes in on its tricentennial year, Jewish life in the city and at the College of Charleston is bustling.

Menachem Wecker

Arabs gather and wave a Palestinian flag at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, during the Muslim month of Ramadan, April 26, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Spain, Ireland, Slovenia to recognize Palestinian state

An aerial view of the Pentagon on May 15, 2023. Credit: U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. John Wright/U.S. Department of Defense.

‘Israel stands on the front lines of the fight for civilization,’ say 80 former US generals and admirals

U.S. President Joe Biden addresses a group of Jewish Community leaders about his support for Israel following the recent Hamas terrorist attacks and his work to combat antisemitism on Oct. 11, 2023, in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House. Credit: Adam Schultz/White House.

Jewish Federations: ‘President Biden is wrong’

U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan speaks during a Feb. 14, 2024 press briefing at the White House. Credit: Oliver Contreras/White House.

‘Deeply concerned’ about message Biden admin sending to Hamas, 26 House Democrats say

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Canadian MPs unanimously call on Trudeau to designate IRGC as terror group

Matthew Miller, the U.S. State Department spokesman, moderates a press conference at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China, on June 19, 2023, as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken looks on. Credit: Chuck Kennedy/U.S. State Department.

Reporter scolds State: ‘I was under the impression that you guys didn’t speak to hypotheticals’

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md. Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr via Wikimedia Commons Commons.

Cotton on weapons freeze: ‘No choice but to impeach Biden’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), the ranking member of the Committee on Foreign Relations, in Jerusalem, Israel, Feb. 21, 2023. Credit: Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO.

Biden ‘pacifying’ Jew-haters, says ranking Senate Foreign Relations Committee member

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) speaks at the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md. Credit: Gage Skidmore via Creative Commons.

Senior senator: Biden turning his back on Israel is ‘politically oriented’

Martha E. Pollack in 2017. Credit: Cornell University Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

Martha E. Pollack, president of Cornell, to resign after intense campus protests

Aerial view of Rutgers University in New Jersey. Credit: FotosForTheFuture/Shutterstock.

Congressmen say Rutgers must do more to protect Jewish students, faculty

Stock illustration of a gavel. Credit: Pixabay.

Prominent legal blog: Anti-IHRA statement from 1,000 Jewish professors ‘bizarre, ultimately dishonest’

British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer. Credit: Rupert Rivett/Shutterstock.

Anti-Israel Muslims exert pressure after Labour wins big in UK local elections

David Isaac

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

Does Biden’s arms freeze imply a real shift in US posture?

Troy Osher Fritzhand

A still showing the alleged murder of Jewish businessman Ziv Kipper in Alexandria, Egypt, May 6, 2024. Credit: Telegram.

Wife of Israeli killed in Egypt alleges antisemitic motive

Haim Saban in 2013. Credit: U.S. Department of State via Wikimedia Commons.

Haim Saban blasts blocked US weapons to Israel: ‘Bad decision on all levels’

The city of Ariel in Samaria on July 2, 2020. Photo by Sraya Diamant/Flash90.

Gallant declares support for new city in Samaria

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (center) holds hate crimes roundtable for Jewish community leaders amid an uptick in antisemitism and hate crimes, May 8. 2024/ Credit: Susan Watts/Office of Gov. Kathy Hochul.

Hochul urges Jewish communal leaders to apply for boosted security grants

JNS TV

Historian Rafael Medoff talks about Yom Hashoah … and its modern-day relevance

Endowment of Middle East Truth (EMET) Webinar

opinion

U.S. President Joe Biden giving a Memorial Day address at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, May 29, 2023. Credit: Philip Yabut/Shutterstock.

Caroline B. Glick

Biden ends the US-Israel alliance at a fortuitous moment

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers the keynote address at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Annual Days of Remembrance ceremony at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on May 7, 2024. Credit: Adam Schultz/White House.

Ben Cohen

What Biden didn’t say about antisemitism

David Wurmser

Why the White House turned on Israel

Moshe Phillips

Should Deborah Lipstadt resign in protest?

Shuki Friedman

Resolve and optimism between Yom Hashoah and Israel’s national holidays

Fiamma Nirenstein

Biden’s perfidy means more war

“The Sun Will Shine in a Free Palestine” mural at the Arts Quad of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., in front of a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel student tent encampment on April 25, 2024. Credit: Hstoops via Wikimedia Commons.

Shadows of fear: Jewish students are branded as outsiders

For the first time, KKL-JNF’s symbol for Israel’s 76th Independence Day was designed by students. Credit: Courtesy.

Students design KKL-JNF symbol for Israel’s 76th Independence Day

Dr. Jeffery Herbst, American Jewish University’s Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, speaking at the dedication ceremony and mezuzah-hanging of its new campus in Los Angeles, May 7, 2024. Credit: Jodye Alcon Photography/American Jewish University.

American Jewish University celebrates dedication of Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies’ new home

(From left) Luis Andrade, president of the International Observatory of Human Rights, with Gabriela Cantergi, B'nai B'rith International Portugal president, and the Bishop of Oporto, D. Manuel Linda. Credit: Courtesy of BBP/Dadon.

B’nai B’rith Portugal honors nun who said kaddish for a Jewish man

Birthright participants during a recent trip. Credit: Courtesy of Birthright Israel.

Birthright Israel to bring 13,500 participants this summer

llustration by PublicDomainPictures via Pixabay.

For Women’s Health Awareness Month and Mother’s Day, learn the risks

“Courtyard Terezin” by Malva Schaleck. Credit: Courtesy of World ORT.

Holocaust art website launches on Yom Hashoah

Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds. Credit: Courtesy of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous.

Library of Congress program on US serviceman, a Righteous Gentile

From a small group of boys in 1924, BBYO has grown to an international organization with tens of thousands of participants. Credit: Courtesy of BBYO.

BBYO celebrates 100 years

An indoor farmhouse. Credit: Courtesy of GreenOnyx.

GreenOnyx sets industry-quality standard for its flagship fresh-superfood Wanna Greens

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