The photo spread swiftly after a student posted it on social media: Eight California high schoolers were lying on their school’s football field, their bodies arrayed in the shape of a swastika. Alongside the picture was a quote from Adolf Hitler, threatening the “annihilation of the Jewish race.” The incident at Branham High School in […]
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Israelis seeking to visit the United States could soon be required to submit five years of social media history, according to draft regulations published by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security this week. The regulations would apply to tourists from 42 countries, all allies of the United States, that are enrolled in the government’s Visa […]
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The co-hosts of a popular sports podcast declared on a recent episode that Jews “own everything” and are “the most powerful community in the world.” Shannon Sharpe and Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson, both former National Football League stars, directed the comments at a popular Jewish livestreamer. “This is the most powerful community in the world,” Sharpe […]
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When visitors and local researchers in the Netherlands realized earlier last month that two panels honoring Black American soldiers who helped liberate Europe from the Nazis had disappeared from the U.S. military cemetery at Margraten, the reaction was swift. Local officials demanded explanations, historians raised concerns, and the story quickly spread through Dutch and international […]
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Bari Weiss, the polarizing new editor-in-chief of CBS News, has named the longtime network personality Tony Dokoupil to anchor the evening news chair, in a potential sign of how Weiss’ pro-Israel views may be reshaping the network’s news priorities. The move came amid a rash of prominent vacancies at the venerable network since new Paramount […]
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Commuters in Times Square were confronted this week with a new digital billboard demanding the release of the final remaining hostage in Gaza, Ran Gvili. “Hamas must release him now,” the billboard reads next to a photo of Gvili. “The last Israeli hostage held in Gaza.” Gvili, a 24-year-old police officer who was killed defending […]
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Students at Columbia University have little access to academic expertise on the Middle East that does not come from an “explicitly anti-Zionist” perspective, the school’s antisemitism task force found. The Ivy League university “should work quickly and energetically” to add expertise on Jewish and Israeli topics that do not come from an anti-Israel stance, Columbia’s […]
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At the American Zionist Movement conference in New York City on Monday, Israeli President Isaac Herzog declined to respond to hecklers urging him to accept Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request for a pardon. The calls came after Herzog’s talk at the AZM Biennial National Assembly where he lamented growing antisemitism in the United States […]
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In the lead-up to New York City’s mayoral election last month, Elliot Cosgrove emerged as one of the most outspoken rabbinic critics of Zohran Mamdani, the anti-Zionist activist who is now the mayor-elect. On Monday, speaking to a convention of Zionists, Cosgrove turned his critique toward U.S. Jews, saying that supporters of Israel “shouldn’t be […]
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Four and a half years after Joey Borgen was beaten in the street in New York City while en route to a pro-Israel rally, a sixth individual involved in his assault has been sentenced. Salem Seleiman, 30, was sentenced to two years in state prison on Thursday in New York State Supreme Court. He pleaded […]
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