President Donald Trump lashed out at Israel and Iran Tuesday morning, suggesting they continued to exchange fire despite his announcement of a ceasefire. “We basically, we have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f— they’re doing,” Trump told reporters at the White House Tuesday […]
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The federal government arrested a Maryland man accused of sending threatening letters to the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia and other Jewish institutions for over a year. Clift A. Seferlis, 55, of Garrett Park, Maryland, was arrested on June 17 and charged with mailing threatening communications, one of which made reference […]
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A University of Florida law student who posted that Jews must be “abolished by any means necessary” won an award for a paper in which he argued that the Constitution applies solely to white people. The honor for an avowed white supremacist and antisemite has roiled the campus at the public university, in a state […]
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Lawmakers reacted largely along party lines to the Trump administration’s decision to attack three nuclear sites in Iran Saturday night. Although supporters and detractors of the decision to bomb the three sites could be found on both sides of the aisle, members of the president’s party were more inclined to celebrate what one, Republican House […]
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In his first interview since being released from federal detention Friday, pro-Palestinian student protester Mahmoud Khalil told the New York Times that his three-month detention “felt like a kidnapping.” “All the ‘Know Your Rights’ information and fliers I read and familiarized myself with were useless,” Mr. Khalil told the Times. “There are no rights in […]
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President Donald Trump said he hoped there would be no need for more strikes like the ones he ordered late Saturday on Iran’s nuclear sites — but he said he was prepared to act again if needed. In a four-minute address broadcast from the White House, Trump called the U.S. bombing of three nuclear sites […]
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After days of publicly considering joining Israel in its fight against Iran’s nuclear program, and a day after saying he would make a decision “within two weeks,” President Donald Trump announced late Saturday that U.S. forces had attacked Iran. “We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, […]
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An Ohio man was arrested after allegedly attempting to run Jewish Republican Rep. Max Miller off the road Thursday. Miller said the man had threatened him and called him a “dirty Jew” while displaying a Palestinian flag during the road rage incident. Feras S. Hamdan, 36, was arrested on charges of aggravated menacing after turning […]
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Nearly two thirds of Jewish students at Columbia University reported not feeling accepted for their religious identity during the school year that included Hamas’ attack on Israel, compared to 15% of students overall, according to a report released this week. Jewish students were by far the most likely to report that political conversations about controversial […]
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A suspect was arrested Thursday who allegedly planned a mass shooting at the Barshop Jewish Community Center in San Antonio, Texas. The suspect, who was not identified, was located by police in another state and was arrested based on statements made by the suspect while in police custody, according to San Antonio Police Chief William […]
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