JNS The Daily Syndicate - Friday, May 17, 2024

Friday, May 17, 2024


	The Daily Syndicate

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

from the editor-in-chief

Jonathan S. Tobin

Sue and defund schools that tolerate antisemitism

What happened at Haverford College is a case study in how respected liberal institutions are harming Jewish students. They need to be held accountable.

Yitzhak Gelernter, Shani Louk and Amit Buskila, whose bodies the IDF recovered in mid-May 2024. Credit: IDF.

Israel recovers bodies of Shani Louk, Amit Buskila, Yitzhak Gelerenter

Andrew Bernard

Memorial candle. credit: Manfred Richter/Pixabay.

US lawmakers, Jewish groups mourn death of three Israeli hostages

David Swindle

View of the court during South Africa's charges against Israel at the International Court of Justice, the principal judicial arm of the United Nations, in The Hague on May 16, 2024. Credit: ICJ.

South Africa is Hamas ‘ally,’ Israel says at Hague court

Andrew Bernard

Demonstrators outside the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv call for the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, May 16, 2024. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

UN Security Council holds first meeting solely focused on hostages in Gaza

Mike Wagenheim

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on March 7, 2024. Credit: Cameron Smith/White House.

House passes bill that would force Biden to release arms to Israel

Andrew Bernard

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Al Ula, Saudi Arabia, on Jan. 8, 2024. Credit: Chuck Kennedy/U.S. State Department.

Once glitzy and very public, Abraham Accords unfolding more quietly after Oct. 7

Mike Wagenheim

latest news

Rouen, France. Credit: Francois45140/Pixabay.

French police shoot and kill man attempting to torch synagogue in Rouen

The World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Credit: Eric Bridiers/U.S. Mission Geneva.

World Health Org admits 10,000 ‘unidentified’ Gazan fatalities not yet found

Mike Wagenheim

Fatah terrorists during a parade in the Balata camp on the outskirts of Nablus (Shechem) in Samaria, May 5, 2023. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.

Fatah terrorists attack Israeli forces in Gaza, Samaria

Sgt. Ben Avishay, who was killed in Gaza on May 17, 2024. Credit: IDF.

IDF sergeant Ben Avishay, of Nahariya, killed in Gaza

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.). Credit: Official portrait.

Nadler calls pro-Israel bill he voted against ‘cynical, partisan’

Dave Ramsey's “The Total Money Makeover,” in a bookstore in Dubai on May 9, 2024. Credit: Hamdi Bendali/Shutterstock.

Money man Dave Ramsey offers new Tennessee venue for Israel Summit

Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian activists in New York City, May 11, 2021. Credit: Ron Adar/Shutterstock.

New York state senators propose laws to counter local antisemitism

Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas meets with Secretary-General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit in the Samaria city of Ramallah, Nov. 9, 2016. Photo by Flash90.

Arab League calls for UN troops in Judea, Samaria, Gaza and Jerusalem

Social-media influencer Montana Tucker addresses an estimated 200,000 at the “March for Israel” rally in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14, 2023. Source: Screenshot.

Montana Tucker: ‘It’s us against the world, and we will prevail’

Amelie Botbol

A view of protesters demonstrating outside the campus of Columbia University in New York City, April 25, 2024. Credit: Evan Schneider/U.N. Photo.

Columbia deletes Instagram story celebrating dual degree with Tel Aviv U

Adi Nirman

OpenAI’s Israeli co-founder departs as US gears up regulation

Adi Nirman

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in Jerusalem, Dec. 14, 2023. Photo by Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO.

Israel and the US split over the ‘day after’

Amichai Stein

An Arab man hangs a picture of former South African leader Nelson Mandela next to a poster of former PLO chief Yasser Arafat, at a memorial service for Mandela in Jerusalem's Old City, Dec. 8, 2013. Photo by Sliman Khader/Flash90.

Closed Tel Aviv embassy stymies South Africans wishing to vote in May elections

Rolene Marks

Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting in Ramallah, July 25, 2019. Credit: Flash90.

Abbas urges Arab nations to support Palestinian Authority

IDF Cantor Maj. (res.) Daniel Colthof. Photo by Yossi Zeliger.

IDF cantor: ‘After the funerals, I would just fall apart’

Hanan Greenwood

Israeli Finance Minister and Religious Zionism Party head Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, Feb. 12, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Smotrich slams ‘NYT’ settlement hit piece as ‘blood libel’

The South Grounds Fountain at the White House is dyed green for St. Patrick’s Day on March 17, 2024. Credit: Carlos Fyfe/White House.

Jewish staffer in Biden administration resigns due to ‘disastrous’ war in Gaza

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff. Credit: The White House.

Emhoff, Biden officials meet with Jewish leaders upset over weapons freeze

David Swindle

Anti-Israel protesters demonstrated in Malmö, Skåne, Sweden on May 11 2024 during the Eurovision Song Contest. Credit: Woodan/Shutterstock.

Many watched Eurovision for first time as ‘patriotic duty’

Dave Gordon

Eden Golan, Israel's participant in the Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden who came in fifth place overall, arrives at Ben-Gurion International Airport on May 12, 2024. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.

David Isaac

Eurovision handed Israel the win

podcast

Yishai Fleisher

State of Finkelstein

opinion

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at a press conference at the ministry in Tel Aviv, Nov. 11, 2023. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL.

Caroline B. Glick

Why has Gallant abandoned Israel’s war goals?

A field of sunflowers in the Gaza Envelope in southern Israel, May 17, 2024. Photo by Alon Blum.

Ruthie Blum

Sunflowers and bad news

Bronze statues of Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, 15th-century rulers of Spain, among orange trees in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento at Fuengirola in southern Spain. Credit: Graham King/Shutterstock.

featured column

Ben Cohen

UNRWA meets Spanish Inquisition

Daniel Greenfield

Nation-building’s last stand in Gaza

Jerold S. Auerbach

Biden’s not-so-ironclad support

news releases

Biking and walking by jacaranda trees on Habima Square in Tel Aviv on May 16, 2024. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

From darkness to light: Israel’s journey of remembrance and resilience

The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra at the Charles Bronfman Auditorium in Tel Aviv. Credit: Courtesy of the American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic.

American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic premieres global ‘Hatikvah’ video

Maj. Gen. (Res.) Doron Almog, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, with an Israeli soldier training for Shlichim in Uniform. Credit: Maxim Dinshtein/The Jewish Agency for Israel.

Jewish Agency shares stories of Israeli soldiers’ heroism worldwide

The Levering Mill House in Bala Cynwyd, Pa. Credit: Courtesy of Gratz College.

Gratz College expands to Philadelphia’s Main Line

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