US Justice Department announces ‘JTF 10-7,’ a task force dedicated to prosecuting Oct. 7 terrorists

A U.S. Justice Department task force will seek redress for victims of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, in the latest Trump administration move aimed at demonstrating support for Jews and Israelis. The task force, announced Monday by Attorney General Pam Bondi, will bring together federal attorneys and FBI agents and intelligence analysts to […]

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Citing Jewish group’s targeting, Cornell grad student files suit against deportations of pro-Palestinian activists

A Cornell University graduate student has filed suit against the Trump administration’s efforts to deport pro-Palestinian campus protesters, saying that the push represents an illegal infringement on protected speech. Momodou Taal is a Gambian-British national who has been a protest leader at the upstate New York university. Cornell briefly suspended him in both April 2024 […]

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Joe Rogan hosts Holocaust revisionist Darryl Cooper on his podcast and complains of ‘paranoid’ Jews

Joe Rogan, who hosts one of the most popular podcasts in the country, invited a Holocaust revisionist to his studio just over a week after interviewing someone who spreads antisemitic conspiracy theories. Rogan’s interview of so-called “historian” Darryl Cooper on Thursday followed his interview of conspiracy theorist Ian Carroll last week. In Carroll’s interview on […]

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Feds arrest a second Columbia protester, set demands for school to regain funds cut over antisemitism

Immigration authorities have arrested a second Palestinian involved in protests at Columbia University, the Department of Homeland Security announced on Friday. A third person who was involved in pro-Palestinian protests at the school, a current graduate student, “self-deported” earlier this week after having her visa revoked, according to the department. The announcement comes as Columbia […]

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Breaking with recent consensus, Trump makes ‘anti-Semitism’ hyphenated again

It was supposed to be settled: Strike the hyphen from “anti-Semitism” and use “antisemitism” instead. Public debate heated up in 2020 and by 2024, nearly everyone had made the switch: Jews and gentiles; academics and journalists; government officials and private citizens; right-wingers and left-wingers. Then Trump took office and made “anti-Semitism” hyphenated again. It’s the […]

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Mahmoud Khalil will remain in ICE detention as Trump administration makes case for deporting him

Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist arrested at Columbia University, will remain in the United States and in ICE custody following a brief, highly anticipated court hearing on Wednesday. The arrest of Khalil, a permanent U.S. resident who led anti-Israel protests at Columbia, has drawn national attention. Critics of the arrest have expressed alarm over the […]

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Trump guts Department of Education, slashing office handling antisemitism complaints

Acting on decades of Republican ambitions, the Trump administration is dramatically scaling back the federal education department, including its civil rights office— which has gone into high gear addressing antisemitism allegations at colleges and public schools. Staffing at the Office of Civil Rights, which handles complaints filed under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, […]

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