Category: Israel

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — National Jewish organizations are calling on Jews from around the country to travel to Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14 for a mass pro-Israel rally they hope will rival major Jewish demonstrations in 2002 and 1987 in size and impact. The March for Israel has three goals, according to Eric Fingerhut, CEO […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — For a few hours on Sunday, the unthinkable happened on social media: AIPAC promoted a clip of Bernie Sanders talking about Israel. Hours later, that praise prompted Sanders to write a post distancing himself from the pro-Israel lobby. Sanders, the Jewish Vermont senator and unofficial leader of progressives on Capitol Hill, […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — The antisemitism envoys of 24 countries, including the United States, made a joint call for governments to protect their local Jewish communities in the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel. The statement was posted Monday with the signatures of 30 officials. In addition to representatives of countries across Europe […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — French police are searching for a man who stabbed a young Jewish woman in her home in Lyon on Saturday. A swastika was found scrawled on her door, and police said they are investigating whether the symbol was connected to the assault. The woman, who was stabbed twice in her stomach after […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Thousands of people protested against Israel and the U.S. government’s support of it in downtown Washington D.C., with some rushing the White House fence with cries of “Intifada” and “Free Palestine.” The protest, which began at 2 p.m. on Saturday and lasted into the evening, called for a ceasefire in the […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — In a speech on Friday, the head of the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah did not announce that the group would escalate its conflict with Israel, though he hinted that it may in the future. The speech by Hassan Nasrallah appeared to forestall the possibility, at least at present, that Israel’s war against […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Noting a sharp rise in antisemitic attacks and expression since Hamas launched a war against Israel on Oct. 7, the Israeli government advised its citizens not to travel overseas and, if they did so, to avoid outwardly displaying that they are Israeli or Jewish. “Given the magnitude of this, the National Security […]

((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Following the arrest of a student charged with posting multiple antisemitic threats online, including one saying he would “shoot up” the kosher dining hall, Cornell University has announced it has canceled classes Friday in acknowledgment of the “extraordinary stress of the past few weeks” experienced by the campus community. Faculty and nonessential […]

DEIR ISTIYA, West Bank ((JEWISH REVIEW)) —  The video, making the rounds in this northern West Bank Palestinian village, showed an Israeli settler firing a rifle in the air above a group of Palestinians harvesting olives in a field not far from an Israeli settlement. Standing in a small olive grove, the settler told the […]

WASHINGTON ((JEWISH REVIEW)) — Younger voters are less likely to back Israel, support among Democrats for Israel’s conduct has declined and Americans overall are wary of being drawn into a Middle East war. Those are three takeaways from a series of polls on Israel, the Palestinians and the war in Gaza that have been published […]