Six weeks after being released by federal detention, Mahmoud Khalil, the first student pro-Palestinian protest leader to be arrested by the Trump administration last spring, said concerns about antisemitism at Columbia University reflected a “manufactured hysteria.” Khalil first made the allegation in a jailhouse letter in April, soon after he was detained by immigration authorities […]
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NUREMBERG, Germany — Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College for half a century, has seen many crises shake American colleges. But none has stripped schools of their leaders and their students like the present moment. The second Trump administration has gone to war against elite universities, claiming to root out antisemitism and left-wing indoctrination. […]
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The Israeli government bought a billboard in New York City’s Times Square to showcase the video released last week by Hamas of one of its Israeli hostages, Evyatar David. The campaign, which was sponsored by the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the Consulate General of Israel in New York, showed new footage of David released last […]
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Days after rejecting the claim that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami says he has been “persuaded” that he was wrong. Ben-Ami’s about face makes him the latest in a growing list of prominent left-wing Jewish voices to lodge the accusation, which Israel denies and which U.S. President Donald Trump […]
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Jewish New Yorkers support Zohran Mamdani more than any candidate for mayor, but they strongly disagree about how he would shape their future, says a new poll from a pro-Israel nonprofit. Mamdani is pulling the largest share of Jewish voters at 37%, with the rest dispersed between his competitors, Mayor Eric Adams (25%), former Gov. […]
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WASHINGTON – Jason Epstein travels internationally as a public affairs consultant, and although he is a proud Jew, he does not announce it in countries where that might be an issue. Until now it hasn’t been a problem, he says: Last names immediately recognizable as Jewish in the West are not identified as such in […]
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Brown University announced Wednesday it had struck a $50 million dollar deal with the Trump administration to regain its federal research funding after losing it last spring over allegations of campus antisemitism. The announcement comes one week after Columbia University agreed to a $221 million settlement with the Trump administration over funding canceled in March […]
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Zohran Mamdani leads among Jewish voters by a 17-point margin in the race to become New York’s next mayor, according to a new poll. The survey from Zenith Research and Public Progress Solutions predicted that Mamdani would dominate all four of his opponents combined, with 50% of the vote. The Democratic nominee shifted the landscape […]
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a far-right Georgia Republican who has previously advocated against U.S. funding to Israel and been accused of antisemitism, appeared to be the first Republican in Congress to call Israel’s war in Gaza a “genocide.” “It’s the most truthful and easiest thing to say that Oct. 7 in Israel was horrific and […]
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A haunting photo of an emaciated toddler cradled by his mother dominated the front page of Friday’s New York Times, quickly becoming a symbol of the hunger crisis in Gaza. Now, the newspaper has amended some aspects of his story amid criticism. “Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, about 18 months, with his mother, Hedaya al-Mutawaq, who said […]
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