Las Vegas City Council adopts IHRA definition
Another U.S. city has adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism.
The Las Vegas City Council voted on Feb. 6 in favor of R-5-2024, which adopted the definition. It will be used to...
Biden: Response in Gaza Strip ‘over the top’
U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday appeared to describe Israel’s military response to Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre as “over the top,” adding that he was seeking a “sustained pause” in the war.
“I’m of the view, as...
Texas A&M to shutter Qatar campus over Middle East ‘heightened instability’
The board of regents of Texas A&M University, a nearly 150-year-old public school with an undergraduate enrollment of more than 60,000, voted on Thursday to undergo a “multi-year process” to close its campus in Qatar.
“The board...
Harvard stalls, as Penn preps to hand Jew-hatred documents over to House
As the University of Pennsylvania readies to turn documents over to the House Education and the Workforce Committee, as part of the latter’s investigation into Jew-hatred on campus, Harvard University is drawing the ire of the...
Watchdog group exposes the founder of three antisemitic websites
Research by Canary Mission has revealed the man behind a group of websites and social-media accounts spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories and misinformation.
A video put out by the antisemitism watchdog group shows the use of voice-matching from a since-deleted...
Research org that UN tapped for UNRWA probe previously dismissed allegations against agency
The Bergen, Norway-based Chr. Michelsen Institute is one of two—out of three—research organizations that the United Nations tapped to probe the neutrality of one of its agencies that has applauded South Africa’s genocide case...
‘You’re Jewish, I’m from Hamas … we’re going to blow you up’
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania charged Yaniv Gola, 50, of Philadelphia, with eight counts of interstate communication of threats on Monday.
Gola, who faces up to 40 years in jail, three years...
‘Campus Reform’: Indiana University under Title VI probe for Jew-hatred
Indiana University-Bloomington, a 204-year-old institution which U.S. News & World Report ranks among the nation's top 75 universities and top 35 public schools, is under investigation for Jew-hatred under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
The...
UNRWA USA philanthropy director a late scratch from ‘Occupy Blinken’ event
A press release ahead of an “Occupy Blinken” protest Thursday morning outside the McLean, Va. home of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken listed Hani Almadhoun and Hazami Barmada as speakers.
Almadhoun is described as...
‘Far-flung, expanding impact’ of Hamas war, says top US Middle East envoy
The U.S. State Department’s top Middle East envoy has spent nearly her entire career working in the region and has never seen it so hot.
“In my experience, there is nothing like the challenges that...