JNS The Daily Syndicate - Monday, June 17, 2024

Monday, June 17, 2024


	THE DAILY SYNDICATE

Students at the University of Texas students, many of them masked, rally for Hamas and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in the wake of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in southern Israel, April 25, 2024. Credit: Vic Hinterlang/Shutterstock.

from the editor-in-chief

Jonathan S. Tobin

Time to unmask the pro-Hamas thugs

The revival of anti-masking laws is necessary to curb the post-Oct. 7 surge in antisemitism. But will Democratic-controlled legislatures pass them?

Miguel Cardona, the U.S. education secretary, speaks at the 2024 Annual Meeting and Advocacy Day of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities on Feb. 5, 2024. Credit: U.S. Department of Education.

Michigan, CUNY failed to protect Jewish students, Education Department investigation finds

“This is a time to say Jewish lives matter,” Rabbi Asher Lopatin, director of community relations at the Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor, told JNS.

Andrew Bernard

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the White House at an event marking International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict on June 17, 2024. Credit: YouTube/Associated Press.

‘We cannot look away and we will not be silent,’ Kamala Harris says of Hamas’s sexual violence

David Swindle

The Odeon, a theater on the south side of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. Photo by Menachem Wecker.

Attempts by ancient rabbis to curb Greek theater a comedy of errors, per new book

“Given the ideological resistance to theater by some Jewish and Christian authorities, it is all the more striking when they appropriate its forms,” author Courtney Friesen told JNS.

Menachem Wecker

Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) walks out of the U.S. Capitol Building on March 13, 2024. Credit: Philip Yabut/Shutterstock.

Even ‘ironclad’ US-Israel alliance ‘can rust, corrode,’ congressman warns

U.S. presidential envoy Amos Hochstein meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, June 17, 2024. Photo by Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO.

Top Biden envoy meets with Netanyahu as conflict in north heats up

Entrance sign to the University of California, Berkeley. Credit: Gary Yim/Shutterstock.

Anti-Israel groups say they sparked recent fires at UC Berkeley

Joshua Marks

American journalist and television commentator Howard Fineman on the campaign trail in 2012 at the CPAC convention, Feb. 9, 2012. Credit: Jeff Bedford/Flickr via Wikimedia Commons.

Biden: ‘Howard Fineman one of the great journalists of our time’

3D printer. Credit: lppicture/Pixabay.

Canadian police arrest gunmaker, confiscate 3D printers for weapon-making

David Swindle

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant meets with a bipartisan congressional delegation in Tel Aviv, June 17, 2024. Photo by Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense.

Gallant to Congress members: We’re fighting for Western civilization

The U.S. Coast Guard Sentinel-class fast-response cutter “USCGC Clarence Sutphin Jr” (WPC 1147) seized advanced conventional weapons and other lethal aid originating in Iran and bound to Houthi-controlled Yemen from a vessel in the Arabian Sea on Jan. 28, 2024. Credit: Courtesy.

US designates people, entities, many with ties to China, for supplying weapons to Houthis

An Israeli tank during operational activity in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, June 2024. Credit: IDF.

IDF has destroyed half of Hamas’s fighting forces in Rafah

The Student Action Summit, hosted by Turning Point USA, at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in Florida, Dec. 18, 2018. Credit: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons.

Turning Point USA turns away Nick Fuentes at Michigan convention

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jns tv

Alex Traiman, Josh Hasten

Gaza military ‘pause,’ escalation on northern border inflame divisions in Israel

opinion

Lori Lowenthal Marcus

The Philadelphia story of Jew-hatred

Bradley Bowman, Cameron McMillan

The grave consequences of the UN’s failure in Lebanon

Shlomo Levin

Israel is angry at the wrong part of a UN report

Eric Levine

The idiocy of Biden’s unilateral talks with Hamas

Farley Weiss

Merrick Garland refuses to fight antisemitism

Yisrael Medad

The violent, pro-‘Free Palestine’ rhetoric accelerates

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