South Carolina Sen. Darline Graham defeated U.S. House Rep. Ralph Norman in a special primary runoff on Tuesday, putting her in a dominant position to win the Senate seat left vacant with the death in July of her older brother, the pro-Israel stalwart Lindsey Graham. The Associated Press called the race two hours after polls […]
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Michigan’s Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has taken the unusual step of distancing himself, somewhat, from one of his strongest supporters — the influential anti-Israel livestreamer Hasan Piker — over the issue of antisemitism. El-Sayed was one of a number of high-profile Democrats to do so days after Piker made comments that some party […]
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Oklahoma grassroots activist N’kiyla Jasmine Thomas is facing off on Tuesday against centrist Jim Priest in a Democratic Senate race that has become the latest litmus test for progressive politics in a conservative stronghold. The two candidates are battling at the ballot box for the second time this summer after neither of them secured the […]
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As pro-Palestinian progressives find some success at the 2026 ballot box, the long-gestating Israel divestment campaign is looking to capitalize in Rhode Island. Voters in Providence, the state capital, will vote on a referendum this November saying the city should refrain from investing in “foreign countries conducting ethnic cleansing, apartheid, illegal military occupation, or genocide.” […]
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When the Jewish federation in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, laid off its entire support staff earlier this month, the move didn’t come as a surprise. Instead, it felt like an inevitable next step in an inexorable trajectory of decline that has unfolded in public over the course of months, upending the infrastructure that had long organized Jewish […]
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California progressive Aisha Wahab defeated AIPAC-backed moderate Melissa Hernandez in a congressional runoff this week, capping off a contest that had become unexpectedly tight after the pro-Israel lobby entered the fray. The Associated Press called the race between the Democrats — who were vying to replace a disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell — a full […]
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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a veteran Southeast Florida Democrat, defeated her opponents in Tuesday’s primary race that took place in unfamiliar territory, following a statewide rewrite of electoral battle lines. The Associated Press called the race just minutes after polls closed, at 7:24pm, when Wasserman Schultz secured 50.5% of the votes, with 67% of votes […]
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The Trump administration’s investigations into antisemitism at three elite universities were driven by premeditated political goals and violated federal law, according to an account by a former Justice Department attorney. The testimony of the whistleblower, Haley Van Erem, is now being used as evidence in an investigation, led by Jewish U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin, into […]
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Nearly four in 10 Jewish young adults say events affecting Jews in recent years have led them to pull back from Jewish spaces or become more selective about where they participate, with disagreements over how Israel and the Palestinians are discussed as a leading reason, according to a new survey. The survey, which was conducted […]
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A federal judge threw out the Trump administration’s lawsuit that had accused Harvard University of having “turned a blind eye” to Jewish and Israeli students, ending for now the most high-profile campus antisemitism case in the legal arena. The judge, Richard Stearns, ruled Thursday that the government’s evidence for Harvard having committed Title VI civil […]
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