Official who posted antisemitic rhetoric becomes Pentagon press secretary

Kingsley Wilson, a Department of Defense official who has repeatedly echoed antisemitic rhetoric online, will serve as the Pentagon’s new press secretary, according to an announcement Friday. “Kingsley’s leadership has been integral to the DoD’s success & we look forward to her continued service to President Trump!,” said Sean Parnell, the chief Pentagon spokesman and […]

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Guy Christensen, pro-Palestinian TikToker with 3.4 million followers, endorses murder of Israeli embassy employees

Guy Christensen, a TikTok influencer with more than 3 million followers, came out in support of the shooting attack that killed two Israeli embassy employees. “I do not condemn the elimination of the Zionist officials who worked at the Israeli embassy last night,” Christensen, a Gen-Z influencer who goes by YourFavoriteGuy on TikTok, said in […]

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Trump administration says Columbia University ‘continually failed to protect Jewish students’

Columbia University violated federal rules by “acting with deliberate indifference towards student-on-student harassment of Jewish students” since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack, the Trump administration announced Thursday. The department did not announce any new actions against Columbia, which the Trump administration has already pressured into making changes amid its crackdown on campuses with antisemitism complaints. […]

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After museum shooting, more than 40 Jewish groups call for $1 billion in federal funding to secure religious institutions

After a gunman murdered two people outside a Jewish museum, a wide range of major Jewish groups has asked the federal government to sharply increase its funding for religious institutions’ security to $1 billion. The request is one of several made by the coalition in the wake of the attack outside the Capital Jewish Museum […]

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White House revokes Harvard’s right to enroll international students, including Jews from abroad

The Trump administration has revoked its permission for Harvard University to enroll international students, in a dramatic escalation of what the Department of Homeland Security says is an effort to curb antisemitism at the university. The move “means Harvard can no longer enroll foreign students and existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal […]

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Capital Jewish Museum attacker shot victims in the back, authorities say as he is charged with murder

Elias Rodriguez, the Chicago man charged with killing two Israeli embassy employees outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, shot his victims multiple times, including firing at one repeatedly as she attempted to crawl away, according to an FBI agent’s account of the incident. The account was filed as the Justice Department […]

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‘He never should have made it inside that building’: Jewish security groups face down lapses in DC shooting

On Wednesday night, three armed security officers stood guard as the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington held its annual meeting in the nation’s capital. On the agenda: discussions about the various ways antisemitic rhetoric can lead to violence. Hours later, JCRC CEO Ron Halber said, he found out about the deadly shooting of […]

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