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Tammy Bruce, the U.S. State Department spokeswoman, holds a daily press briefing on March 6, 2025. Credit: Freddie Everett/U.S. State Department.

Trump doesn’t just want ‘peaceful day or peaceful week’ in Israel-Hamas conflict, State Dept...

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The U.S. State Department blamed Hamas for reported deaths of some 400 Gazans in Israel’s Tuesday airstrikes on the enclave. “It’s a shame that Hamas has allowed this to occur, but look nowhere else other...
U.S. President Joe Biden, pictured with Deborah Lipstadt, the U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, held a High Holidays call from the White House on Oct. 9, 2024. Credit: White House.

Dozens of members of Congress urge Trump to select envoy on Jew-hatred

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A bipartisan group of 62 U.S. House members wrote a letter urging U.S. President Donald Trump to nominate a special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism—the position previously occupied by the historian Deborah Lipstadt,...
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) speaking at the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md., March 5, 2016. Photo by Gage Skidmore/Creative Commons.

‘Doing entire world a favor’ hitting Houthis, Rubio says

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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Margaret Brennan, of the CBS program Face the Nation program on Sunday, that the Houthis have attacked U.S. naval vessels 174 times and commercial ships 145 times in the...

BDS has denounced ‘No Other Land’ for ‘normalization’ – what does that actually mean?

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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...
A view of protesters demonstrating outside the campus of Columbia University in New York City, April 22, 2024. Credit: Evan Schneider/U.N. Photo.

Columbia says it expelled some anti-Israel students, revoked degrees, issued multi-year suspensions

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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...
Anti-Israel Jewish Voice for Peace protesters are detained by NYPD officers inside Trump Tower in New York on March 13, 2025. Photo by Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images.

NYPD makes ‘multiple’ arrests, as anti-Israel protesters hold sit-in at Trump Tower

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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

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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...
Ofir Angrest, brother of Matan Angrest, speaks during a finance committee meeting in the Knesset, Dec. 9, 2024. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Relatives ask Trump admin, Congress to work urgently to free hostages

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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...
Linda McMahon, U.S. secretary of education, on her first day in office, March 4, 2025. Credit: U.S. Department of Education.

Education Department issues warning to 60 universities under probes for alleged Jew-hatred

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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...
Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman meets with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the Royal Palace grounds in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on March 10, 2025. Photo by Saul Loeb/POOL/AFP via Getty Images.

Rubio: Gaza reconstruction must exclude Hamas

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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...