Three weeks after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack in Israel, a Jewish professor at Cornell University named Eric Cheyfitz offered a “teach-in” titled “Gaza, Settler Colonialism, and the Global War Against Indigenous People.” Just before the teach-in, the school’s Jewish provost called him and asked if he wanted extra security. Like other scholars of […]
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WASHINGTON — When they promoted this Sunday’s pro-Israel rally in Washington D.C., the organizers knew they wouldn’t be able to match the turnout of last November’s March for Israel, which brought hundreds of thousands to Washington just over a month after Oct. 7. So the marketing and press emails promised a smaller but still substantial […]
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed Yechiel Leiter, an American-Israeli former settler leader whose son was killed fighting in Gaza, as the next Israeli ambassador to the United States. The prime minister announced the appointment of Leiter, a former Netanyahu aide, in a Friday statement, saying Leiter is “a highly capable diplomat, an eloquent […]
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A Michigan man carrying a flare gun, a torch lighter, two bottles of fuel and a manifesto angry with the government’s response to the Israel-Hamas war was arrested at the United States Capitol Visitor Center on Election Day, police said. The man, 28-year-old Austin M. Olson of the Detroit suburb of Westland, was charged with […]
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David Sassoon has been serving as an Israeli soldier in Gaza for nearly a year. On Wednesday, his tank unit took a moment to celebrate something that they believe will change their fight for the better: Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election. “Just so you know, in the artillery corps we have not […]
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“Kamala Harris supports endless wars in the Middle East,” reads a mailer sent to households in Michigan the day before Election Day, ostensibly imploring voters to support Green Party candidate Jill Stein instead. “I am reaching out to make sure that you know Kamala will always stand with Israel,” reads an apparent pro-Harris text sent […]
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Two Jews who publicly resigned from posts in the Biden administration over its handling of the Gaza war now say they will be voting for Vice President Kamala Harris. In a joint op-ed published Monday, on the eve of Election Day, Lily Greenberg Call, 26, and Harrison Mann, 35, expressed anger that the Harris campaign […]
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, saying he no longer trusted him, a drastic step while Israel is fighting on multiple fronts, faces domestic political turmoil and is contending with regional and global uncertainty. The decision — the second time in as many years that Netanyahu has announced Gallant’s termination […]
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The publisher of Haaretz, Israel’s most influential left-leaning publication, sent shockwaves through his newspaper and beyond after saying Israel fought “Palestinian freedom fighters” and calling for sanctions against Israel. In Amos Schocken’s remarks last week, he also accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government of apartheid and a “second Nakba” and compared Israel to apartheid-era […]
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American Airlines announced over the weekend it would not be resuming flights to Israel until September 2025, extending an existing pause by an additional six months and potentially sparking a cascade of other airline delays in resuming regular Israel service. The move makes American Airlines the first United States-based carrier to push back flights to […]
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