JNS The Daily Syndicate - Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Wednesday, May 15, 2024


	THE DAILY SYNDICATE

The relationship between Israel and the United States has frayed since the start of war against the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip. Credit: FOTOGRIN/Shutterstock.

from the editor-in-chief

Jonathan S. Tobin

Why Israel can say ‘no’ to American diktats

There’s no alternative to the alliance with the United States. But support from ordinary Americans and the GOP means it doesn’t have to sacrifice its security to please Biden.

Ballot box. Credit: I'm friday/Shutterstock.

Pro-Israel candidates win key primaries in Maryland, Nebraska, West Virginia

Andrew Bernard

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks during a press conference at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, May 15, 2024. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Netanyahu slams Gallant demand for Palestinian control of post-war Gaza: ‘not willing to exchange Hamastan for Fatahstan’

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, briefs reporters on the situation in the Gaza Strip on Feb. 2, 2024. Credit: Manuel Elías/U.N. Photo.

UN Security Council to hold first meeting since Oct. 7 devoted fully to hostages in Gaza

Mike Wagenheim

Israeli Defense Ministry contractor Liron Yitzhak, shown with his fiancée, was wounded in battle in the Gaza Strip and died on May 15, 2024. Credit: Courtesy.

IDF military contractor dies of wounds sustained in Gaza mortar attack

Haverford College in the Philadelphia suburbs, May 15, 2024. Photo by Carin M. Smilk.

Jewish students sue Haverford, alleging antisemitic civil-rights violations

Andrew Bernard

Oskar Jacob, a Holocaust survivor who lives in St. Louis. Photo by Bill Motchan.

War stories: Holocaust survivor meets descendant of Nazi scientist

Bill Motchan

An Iron Dome battery in Ashkelon fires an interceptor missile at rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, Aug. 7, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

US-Israel trade dispute threatens to cripple Iron Dome

Mike Wagenheim

Janet Yellen, then chair of the Federal Reserve, testifies before the House Financial Services Committee, Nov. 4, 2015. Credit: Federal Reserve.

House committee chairs ask Treasury for info on 20 groups in connection to campus Jew-hatred

The annual “Celebrate Israel Parade” in New York City. Credit: Courtesy.

NYPD: Pro-Israel parade will have ‘adequate security deployment’

David Swindle

A corridor outside a library at the University of California, Los Angeles. Credit: thshao/Shutterstock.

Foxx: UCLA leaders allowed ‘pervasive hostile environment for students’

David Swindle

A man stands still as a two-minute siren sounded across Israel, marking Memorial Day, which commemorates the fallen Israeli soldiers and victims of terror, on the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv on May 13, 2024. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Jewish Voice for Peace mocked widely for claim Israeli holidays meant to overshadow ‘Nakba Day’

Elad Fingerhut, 38, was killed by a Hezbollah missile on May 14. Credit: Courtesy.

Victim of Hezbollah missile attack named

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa). Credit: U.S. Senate Official Portrait via Wikimedia Commons.

Ernst blasts Biden’s ‘ironclad’ commitment to Israel as ‘a bunch of bull’

Ontario Legislative Building at Queen's Park in Toronto, Canada, on Aug. 9, 2023. Credit: JHVEPhoto/Shutterstock.

Ontario passes bill requiring colleges to set guidelines against racism

Jenna Kandeel. Credit: University of Delaware Police.

University of Delaware student charged with hate crime

Rockefeller College, one of six residential colleges on the campus of Princeton University in Princeton, N.J. Credit: EQRoy/Shutterstock.

Princeton students get hungry and end their 10-day strike

Miri Weissman

Aid trucks on the way to the Gaza Strip. Credit: Tzav 9.

White House denounces destruction of Gaza aid by outraged Israelis

David Isaac

King Abdullah II of Jordan. Photo by Gevorg Ghazaryan/Shutterstock.

Jordan thwarts Iranian plan to smuggle weapons into kingdom

Joshua Marks

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir at the Israel Police Independence Day ceremony in Jerusalem, April 20, 2023. Photo by Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90.

Thousands march for Gaza resettlement amid Hamas rocket fire

Children participate in a rally at a school in Nablus marking the 70th anniversary of the “Nakba, May 13, 2018. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.

Judea and Samaria Arabs sound siren to mark ‘catastrophe’ of Israel’s founding

“Jewish Wedding” (1903) painting by Jozef Israëls, oil on canvas. Credit: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Jewish 19th-century ‘Rembrandt’ still relevant 200 years after his birth

Menachem Wecker

jns tv

Ruthie Blum, Mark Regev

Is Israel being prevented from winning the war?

“Israel Undiplomatic” with Ruthie Blum and Mark Regev

opinion

The Israeli flag posted near a U.S. rally for the release of hostages Hamas kidnapped from Israel and have kept captive in the Gaza Strip. Credit: Taurus Y/Shutterstock.

featured column

Mitchell Bard

Abandoning Jerusalem is a losing electoral strategy

Out of 14 issues, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was ranked as the least important issue in the country right now.

Rabbi Yossy Goldman

Is God protecting us?

Yonatan Green

It was never about the hostages

Dr. Alex Sternberg

‘In a place where there are no men … ’

Jason Shvili

Biden, Israel and bad politics

Clifford D. May

Biden turns on Israel

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