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Jessica Russak-Hoffman

Jessica Russak-Hoffman is a reporter for JNS in Seattle.

The participation of campus-affiliated groups like CUNY for Palestine “openly encouraging and providing support for terrorism and extremist ideologies,” Jayne Zirkle of EndJewHatred told JNS, “represents a serious challenge that universities can no longer ignore.”
Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, told JNS that the memorandum of understanding is a “disaster” that “stabs Israel in the back.”
“I am the one always encouraging students to get comfortable with opposing ideas,” a professor at Seattle Central College told JNS. “This is not it.”
“The defendant exploited the barbaric acts of terror perpetrated on Oct. 7, 2023, to attract donors to his fraudulent ‘humanitarian’ causes,” the U.S. Justice Department alleged.
“Am I going to say I’m going to take you to court?” the U.S. president told reporters at the G7 summit in France. “No, we’re going to bomb the hell out of them if they violate the agreement.”
Natalie Poulson told JNS that Democratic candidate Luc Jasmin III’s comments are “discrediting” and pointed to an increase in antisemitic incidents of Jew-hatred in the state.
The U.S. president told reporters that he intends to read his agreement with the Iranian regime “word by word” publicly to set the record straight.
Yishay Ishi Ron’s book, “The Girl Who Rode the White Lion,” is based on a true story of a family that hid Jews in a circus during the Holocaust.
“This is a win for the Jewish community,” a spokesman for B’nai Brith Canada told JNS.
“I would never, never leak information like that to the public to hurt Jewish people, because they’re nice people and what I said sounds really bad,” Luc fils Jasmin told JNS of the video, which the state agency posted publicly.
The son of a Washington state Human Rights Commission member told JNS that his father apologized soon after the 2025 to the state governor but admitted that his father hasn’t said publicly that he is sorry.
“The job of a human rights commissioner is to fight bigotry, not participate in it,” Travis Couture, a Republican state representative, told JNS.