BDS has denounced ‘No Other Land’ for ‘normalization’ – what does that actually mean?
When the Boycott Divestment Sanction movement released a statement on their website condemning the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land for violating its guidelines, some of the film’s supporters were shocked. Specifically BDS’ Palestinian Campaign for the Academic...
Columbia says it expelled some anti-Israel students, revoked degrees, issued multi-year suspensions
Columbia University announced on Thursday that it had disciplined students who occupied the Ivy League school’s Hamilton Hall last spring with measures including “multi-year suspensions, temporary degree revocations and expulsions.”
“The return of suspended students will be...
NYPD makes ‘multiple’ arrests, as anti-Israel protesters hold sit-in at Trump Tower
The New York City Police Department told JNS that it arrested multiple people and that it is addressing an ongoing matter, as protesters staged a sit-in at Tower in Midtown Manhattan on Thursday afternoon.
Some...
‘He’s not Jewish anymore. He’s a Palestinian,’ Trump says of Schumer
Micheál Martin, the Irish Taoiseach, or prime minister, has been among the Jewish state's most vocal critics, including asking the principal judicial body of the United Nations to broaden its definition of "genocide" in December to...
Relatives ask Trump admin, Congress to work urgently to free hostages
A week after a group of freed Israeli hostages met with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, a delegation of relatives of hostages still being held by Hamas in Gaza came to...
Education Department issues warning to 60 universities under probes for alleged Jew-hatred
The U.S. Department of Education sent notices to 60 colleges on Monday warning that they could face consequences if they fail to meet their obligations, under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, to protect...
Rubio: Gaza reconstruction must exclude Hamas
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio reaffirmed on Monday that any reconstruction effort in Gaza must exclude the Hamas terrorist group.
He made the remarks during a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman...
‘We just didn’t matter,’ Jewish students say of alleged antisemitism at California schools
The Anti-Defamation League, Jewish on Campus, StandWithUs and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law filed complaints earlier this month with the U.S. Department of Education alleging that three California schools—Scripps College, Etiwanda...
Witkoff: ‘No alternative’ for Hamas but to exit Gaza
Hamas must leave the Gaza Strip, Steve Witkoff, the U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, told Fox News on Monday, shortly before flying to Qatar for continued talks on a Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal.
Witkoff said of...
Federal agents arrest former Columbia student, who led protests
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, coordinating with the U.S. State Department, arrested Mahmoud Khalil, who completed his graduate studies at Columbia University in December, "in support of President Trump's executive orders prohibiting antisemitism,"...