This year’s presidential campaign, more than any in recent memory, has been threaded with debates over Israel, antisemitism and the Jewish vote — and Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally was no exception. It featured an antisemitic joke, a speaker who recently platformed a Holocaust denier, and the kind of nativist rhetoric that has historically […]
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Speakers at a major New York rally for Donald Trump include some of his most prominent Jewish supporters as well as others who have drawn attention for their associations with antisemites. Among them are Tucker Carlson, who recently hosted a Holocaust denier on his podcast; Stephen Miller, Trump’s Jewish former chief of staff who has […]
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The daughter of the owner of the Los Angeles Times says the newspaper’s decision not to endorse a presidential candidate reflects her family’s opposition to U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza. “Our family made the joint decision not to endorse a Presidential candidate,” Nika Soon-Shiong said in a statement issued to the New York […]
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A new campaign ad for Donald Trump pushes back against Kamala Harris’ claim that the former president is a “fascist” by featuring a Holocaust survivor who says Harris is disgracing his murdered family members with the allegation. “Adolf Hitler invaded Poland when I was 9 years old. He murdered my parents and most of my […]
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President Joe Biden said he wants Israel’s strike on Iran to be “the end” of direct fighting between the two countries, as Iran said it had the right to respond to the attack but did not vow to do so. Israel said that it had concluded its strikes against Iran, and warned Iran against beginning […]
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WASHINGTON — Less than two weeks before the presidential election, Kamala Harris called Donald Trump’s alleged longing for the type of general who deferred to Adolf Hitler “deeply troubling.” In brief remarks Wednesday, Harris opined on The Atlantic’s interviews with former Trump administration staffers, in which they said that he longed for “the kind of […]
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A new report from a campus antisemitism task force accused the pro-Palestinian movement at the University of California, Los Angeles of triggering a torrent of abuse directed at Jewish and Israeli students, faculty and staff. The 93-page report, released Tuesday by UCLA’s Task Force to Combat Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias, said Jews on campus were […]
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WASHINGTON — An array of liberal-leaning Jewish groups, including the rabbinic associations of American Judaism’s two largest denominations, joined 500 Jewish clergy in calling out “an election season defined by xenophobia, fear, and lies.” The statement released Wednesday by HIAS, the lead Jewish immigration advocacy group, appeared to be a thinly-veiled reference to Donald Trump’s […]
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WASHINGTON — With just weeks to go before the election, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have both tried to use Israel as a wedge issue: Trump has said the country will not exist in two years if he is defeated, and Harris’ campaign has called his rhetoric on Israel antisemitic. Trump and Harris do disagree […]
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Eleven protesters were arrested Monday afternoon at the University of Minnesota after storming an administrative building and vandalizing it as part of an effort to push the university to divest from Israel. The administration said they caused property damage and restricted access to the building. The protest is the latest bout of campus activism to […]
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