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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Sen. Bernie Sanders has urged Democratic leaders to ban super PAC spending in primaries, focusing on the efforts of pro-Israel lobbyists to influence a crucial Michigan Senate race. Sanders in an open letter on Sunday called on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin to […]
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Abbas Alawieh, a founder of the Uncommitted movement that pressured former President Joe Biden to change his Israel policy, is the projected winner of a Democratic primary for Michigan’s state Senate. Alawieh rose to national prominence as a key architect of the campaign to withhold votes from Biden during Michigan’s presidential primary in 2024, a […]
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Progressive Donavan McKinney, who pledged to sever military aid to Israel, has defeated a pro-Israel advocate in a U.S. House Democratic primary race in Michigan. McKinney, a state representative, challenged incumbent U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar in Michigan’s 13th District as fierce debates over U.S. support for Israel shaped the state’s Democratic primaries. McKinney won the […]
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President Donald Trump said he canceled at the last minute a planned joint assault with Israel on Iran’s energy infrastructure at the behest of “Middle Eastern Countries,” which feared the war blowing up into a wider conflict. The U.S. alerts over the weekend warning citizens to evacuate the Middle East and then Trump’s announcement late […]
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Every congregational rabbi in Maine has signed onto a statement calling for peace and urging the state’s political leaders to stop using the term “genocide” to describe Israel’s war in Gaza, following a Democratic primary in which several candidates used the label for the first time. But the rabbis also indicated that they, too, were […]
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Israel has rejected a Gaza peace plan advanced with much fanfare by President Donald Trump, saying it did not adequately address disarmament by Hamas. “There will be no Israeli withdrawal,” an unnamed “diplomatic official” said in a statement issued in Hebrew to Israeli reporters. The rejection has spurred blistering expressions of anger by unnamed U.S. […]
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Cornell University is condemning viral antisemitic remarks made by an undergraduate student who appeared on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” earlier this week, but the school’s president says no further action is planned against the student. During his appearance, the student, Austin Franco, defended his statement in June that he did not want to work with Jews, […]
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A major fire at one of the largest kosher meat processing plants in the United States is poised to increase the price of kosher meat ahead of the High Holidays, in addition to devastating the plant’s local community. Investigators in Postville, Iowa, said on Wednesday that the fire that devastated AgriStar Processing started accidentally in […]
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A California law to prevent antisemitism in schools will be enforced after a federal judge dismissed a challenge from teachers and students who said it violated free speech. U.S. District Judge Noël Wise on Tuesday ruled against a lawsuit opposing Assembly Bill 715, which went into effect in January. The new law introduces measures to […]
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