JNS The Daily Syndicate - Friday, July 12, 2024

Friday, July 12, 2024


	THE DAILY SYNDICATE

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during the opening session of the NATO Summit at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., on July 10, 2024. Credit: Chuck Kennedy/U.S. State Department.

from the editor-in-chief

Jonathan S. Tobin

The problem is what Biden remembers, not what he forgets

His press conference performance featured a recycling of attacks on Israel and lies about the Palestinians that led to war and won’t deter Iran.

A Coast Guard aircrew conducts flyovers in Texas to assess the damage left behind by Hurricane Beryl in Matagorda, Texas City, Galveston and Houston, July 8, 2024. Credit: Petty Officer 2nd Class Jessica Fontenette/U.S. Coast Guard Photo.

Stormy arrival in Houston, as another Beryl comes to town

“I arrived with my hurricane namesake. It’s been quite an experience,” says Beryl Chernov, executive director at Congregation Emanu El in Houston.

Carin M. Smilk

U.S. President Joe Biden gestures as he speaks during a press conference at the close of the 75th NATO Summit at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., on July 11, 2024. Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images.

Biden: ‘Determined on running’

The president took nearly an hour of press questions at the NATO Summit in D.C., amid growing calls for him to withdraw from the election due to his age.

Andrew Bernard

U.S. President Joe Biden wipes his eye as he speaks during a press conference at the close of the 75th NATO Summit at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., on July 11, 2024. Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images.

‘Reckless, irresponsible’ Biden remarks on Israel to press, critics say

The president’s tone appeared “to reflect his view that Israel and Hamas equally share blame for the situation,” Alan Dershowitz told JNS.

David Swindle

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres briefs reporters on the situation in the Gaza Strip, as Stéphane Dujarric, his spokesman, looks on, Dec. 22, 2023. Credit: Eskinder Debebe/U.N. Photo.

UN finally says it paid for Albanese’s anti-Israel lobbying trip

Mike Wagenheim

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with rescued hostage Andrey Kozlov at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, June 8, 2024. Credit: Maayan Toaf/GPO.

Netanyahu reiterates ‘red lines’ for hostage deal with Hamas

Charles Bybelezer

Exterior of the U.S. State Department's Harry S. Truman Building in May 2024. Credit: Linda D. Epstein/U.S. State Department.

US sanctions Iranian company with ties to chemical weapons program

Andrew Bernard

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with G7 foreign ministers at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., July 11, 2024. Credit: Chuck Kennedy/U.S. State Department.

G7 leaders denounce Israeli ‘expansion of settlements’

The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills, Mich. Credit: Courtesy.

Protest at Holocaust museum denounced as Jew-hatred ‘masked as pro-Palestinian activism’

JNS Staff

Trucks loaded with supplies for Gaza wait in Al-Arish City, North Sinai, because Egypt refuses to allow them to transit the Rafah Crossing as long as Israel controls the Gaza side, July 9, 2024. Photo by Ali Moustafa/Getty Images.

‘Hamas will not accept a hostage deal if Israel can resume the fight’

Amichai Stein

Deborah Lipstadt, U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, addresses the nearly 300,000 attendees of the “March for Israel” rally in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14, 2023. Source: Screenshot.

Lipstadt to travel to South America for antisemitism forum, AMIA memorial

Transformers at an electrical substation in downtown Houston. Photo by George Rose/Getty Images.

NJ man, who allegedly encouraged anti-Jewish violence, arrested for targeting energy facility

JNS Staff

Israelis protest against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) outside one of its offices in Jerusalem, March 20, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israel: ‘No role for UNRWA in Gaza’ as agency hires Hamas by hundreds

David Isaac

U.S. President Joe Biden, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (center) and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in Washington during NATO's 75th annual summit, July 10, 2024. Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images.

US complicit in Israeli ‘massacres,’ Erdoğan says in DC

Akiva Van Koningsveld

Ben Hill Griffin Stadium at the University of Florida. Credit: Pablo Corredor via Wikimedia Commons.

University of Florida dean suspends anti-Israel protesters for years

Sapir Cohen met Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar while in captivity. Photo by Efrat Eshel.

Woman recalls daunting meeting with Hamas leader Sinwar in captivity

Tal Ariel Yakir

Israeli President Isaac Herzog and his wife, Michal, meet residents of Kibbutz Be'eri at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, Nov. 12, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Hamas rapes have ‘taken the entire human race many steps backward’

Haredim being trained on weapons during Israel's War of Independence. Credit: IDF Archives.

The forgotten fighters: Ultra-Orthodox in the War of Independence

Nadav Shragai

Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli (right) speaks with the guests from Morocco at the Friends of Zion Museum in Jerusalem, July 9, 2024. Photo by Yossi Zamir.

A Moroccan delegation sees a different Israel in person

Etgar Lefkovits

Hamas hostage Doron Steinbrecher (left) with her mother Simona (center) and her sister Yamit Ashkenazi. Credit: The Hostage and Missing Families Forum.

A mother pleads for her kidnapped daughter’s life

Amelie Botbol

Police secure a road as smoke billows after rockets were fired from Southern Lebanon in the Golan Heights on July 9, 2024. Photo by Jalaa Marey/AFP via Getty Images.

Hezbollah’s deadly rocket attacks raise questions about new tactics

Yaakov Lappin

“Fiddler on the Roof” statue in Birobidzhan, Russia. Credit: Amanderson2 via Wikimedia Commons.

‘Fiddler on the Roof’ run in New England to ‘remind’ patrons of prejudice

David Swindle

Theater. Credit: StockSnap/Pixabay.

‘Newish Jewish Plays’ series focuses on parenting, Palestinian conflict

Stand-up comedian and actor Modi Rosenfeld and writer, comic and producer Periel Aschenbrand speak onstage at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, Feb. 01, 2024. Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images.

Israeli-American comedian taps into his heritage

Dor Malul

President Isaac Herzog receives the diplomatic credentials of Japanese Ambassador to Israel Arai Yusuke, July 11, 2024. Photo by Haim Zach/GPO.

Herzog receives credentials from five ambassadors

Israel Defense Forces soldier Sgt. 1st Class (res.) Valeri Chefonov, 33, was killed in a Hezbollah drone strike, July 11, 2024. Credit: IDF.

Hezbollah drone kills IDF soldier in Western Galilee

Smoke billows over Gaza City's eastern Shejaiya neighborhood following an Israeli airstrike, June 22, 2024. Photo by Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP via Getty Images.

Shejaiya, springboard for Oct. 7 onslaught, lies in ruins

Neta Bar

A drawing inspired by "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." Credit: Yad Vashem.

Revealed: Disney characters drawn by Holocaust survivors

Yori Yalon

Eliezer Rumpler, from the Lev Tahor cult, arrives at Jerusalem District Court for a court hearing on June 28, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 .

Three leaders of Lev Tahor cult sentenced to more than a dozen years each

opinion

Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University. Credit: Thomas Good/NLN via Wikimedia Commons.

featured column

Ben Cohen

‘The Neck and the Sword’ is Rashid Khalidi’s distortion of history

The Palestinian intellectual is in denial of the long history of antisemitism in the Muslim world.

Yisrael Medad

The causes of Palestine transnationalization

Rabbi Mendel Kalmenson

Living with purpose: Lessons from the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe

College campus. Credit: Alison Updyke/Pixabay.

Anti-Israel activists attempt to hijack American education system

Legal academics at American universities on a four-day fact-finding mission visited the Tekumah car graveyard in southern Israel, the remains from the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks in southern Israel, July 2024. Credit: Shahar Azran/WJC.

Law professors embark on World Jewish Congress fact-finding mission to Israel

Ido Aharoni. Credit: Julie Goodman via Wikimedia Commons.

Veteran Israeli diplomat Ido Aharoni to speak at event in Aspen

Welcoming olim at Ben-Gurion International Airport, July 2024. Credit: Courtesy Nefesh of B'Nefesh.

Nefesh B’Nefesh prepares for summer aliyah as interest continues to increase since Oct. 7

Jewish reggae artist Matisyahu will perform at the annual benefit for Americans for Ben-Gurion University in New York City on Sept. 22, 2024. Credit: A4BGU.

Matisyahu concert in New York to benefit BGU students, faculty in aftermath of Oct. 7

Students in Jewish studies. Credit: Courtesy of Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies.

Pardes partners with Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program at Brandeis

AI impression of an exploration rover on Mars. Created by JNF-USA with Microsoft’s Copilot.

Israeli startups compete to join NASA space exploration program

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