In his speech to Congress on Tuesday night, President Donald Trump is expected to bring up the Israeli hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza. And when he does, in the audience will be the parents of the last American captive thought to still be alive: Edan Alexander. Alexander, born to Israeli parents and raised […]
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After Donald Trump speaks to Congress for the first time since he reentered office, the nation’s broadcasts will turn to Sen. Elissa Slotkin. The Michigan Democrat has been chosen to deliver her party’s response to Trump’s speech Tuesday night, in what is being closely watched as a bellwether for how the Democrats will contend against […]
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A Florida editor says he was fired by his local paper, part of a national network, after he ran a cartoon that was critical of the death toll in the war in Gaza. Tony Doris says he was fired as editorial page editor at the Palm Beach Post in February after the paper, owned by […]
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NEW YORK — Elise Stefanik mostly received cheers at an Anti-Defamation League conference as she promoted President Donald Trump’s record on Israel — from praising his proposal to deport foreign-born anti-Israel students to vowing to “dismantle” the United Nations’ Palestinian aid agency. But she was met with boos and a walkout from within the crowd […]
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Deborah Lipstadt, who was the U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism under President Joe Biden, revealed in an essay published Sunday that she had turned down a position at Columbia University because of the school’s role in recent pro-Palestinian protests. In the essay, published in The Free Press, Lipstadt said she was not […]
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For the second time, the Anti-Defamation League is issuing grades to colleges and universities based on their handling of antisemitism and anti-Israel activism. And at a time when the Trump administration has made colleges with pro-Palestinian protests a target, the group says most schools are showing improvement. Eight schools received A’s, up from just two […]
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Remember the “alt-right”? Way back in the two-thousand-and-teens, the loose coalition of white nationalists, neo-Nazi pranksters and anti-immigrant extremists was more likely to be found in obscure corners of the internet than on mainstream conservative outlets like Fox News. Groups that monitor extremism say that has changed, and that the extremes have become mainstream. They […]
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In returning to the United States this week from Romania, the far-right influencer Andrew Tate has re-imported his extreme brand of misogyny mixed with antisemitism. Tate and his brother Tristan had been banned from leaving Romania, where they face prosecution for rape and sex trafficking, since 2022. But Romanian officials lifted the ban, in a […]
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An Orthodox right-wing pro-Israel group will honor Steve Bannon, nine days after the former Donald Trump adviser faced criticism for a gesture that resembled a Nazi salute. Neither the gesture nor the rebuke fazed Israel365, whose founder calls it “Israel’s voice in the MAGA movement,” and which caters to an evangelical Christian audience. On Saturday […]
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Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is selling part of its Los Angeles campus to the nearby University of Southern California, in the latest in a series of cost-cutting moves for a legacy Jewish institution facing years of declining enrollment and financial stress. Announced Wednesday, the agreement between HUC and USC will fund a major […]
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