US reiterates ‘ironclad’ support for Israel as IDF preps for Iranian attack
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin reiterated on Thursday Washington’s commitment to upholding Israel’s security, as the Israel Defense Forces continued preparations for an expected Iranian attack on the home front.
Austin spoke with Israeli Defense...
Lawsuit addresses rights violated by mandate to pay dues to anti-Israel union
Legal action will test the First Amendment question of whether or not it violates an employee’s religious freedom to mandate paying a union that has taken public positions in violation of its worker’s faith-based principles.
Jewish legal...
US sanctions Hamas spokesman, three of its cyber, drone operators in Gaza and Lebanon
Washington officially designated four Hamas-aligned cyber and drone terror warfare officials in Gaza and Lebanon on Friday.
“The United States will continue to target Hamas’s destabilizing attempts to launch terrorist attacks, as well as to...
AJC New England calls Warren’s genocide claims ‘inaccurate and hurtful’
The Boston-based office of the American Jewish Committee’s New England branch sent a letter from its regional director, Robert Leikind, to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), on April 11.
He acknowledged that the senator has been “a supporter...
Biden needs to ‘stop cowering to the radical left,’ says Florida senator
Qatar came in for condemnation on Thursday after a trip to Israel by a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services.
“I made clear to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when I met with him in...
Biden expects Iran to retaliate ‘sooner than later’ against Israel
U.S. President Joe Biden told reporters on Friday afternoon that he believes Iran will retaliate after an April 7 airstrike in Damascus that killed Iranian Brig. Gen. Mohammad Zahedi. Many have attributed it to Israel.
“My expectation...
To protect Jewish buildings, ‘look at it from the eyes of an attacker’
A 25-year veteran of the FBI, Rusty Rosenthal had a front-row seat to understanding the difference between U.S. and Israeli approaches to security during his 11 years working in the bureau’s Tel Aviv field...
Jewish groups laud bipartisan bill calling for national coordinator countering Jew-hatred
Two senators and four congressmen, from both sides of the aisle, introduced legislation this week calling for the creation of a national coordinator to counter antisemitism who would run an interagency task force.
“Antisemitism has been dramatically...
Campus rally challenges Missouri award for photo of Shani Louk’s body
A prestigious award given by the University of Missouri to a photojournalist who took an image depicting the half-naked body of Shani Louk, a 22-year-old Israeli murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Nova music...
‘No choice but to stay hopeful,’ father of US hostage says after meeting with...
Family members of U.S. citizens Hamas terrorists kidnapped and took to Gaza on Oct. 7 held a “very productive meeting” at the White House on Tuesday with Vice President Kamala Harris, Rachel Goldberg-Polin said,...