Gottheimer urges Secretary of Education to monitor ethnic-studies curriculums
A Jewish member of Congress is calling on U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to hold schools accountable for creating hostile and unsafe environments for Jewish students by implementing anti-Semitic “ethnic studies” curricula in their...
Bipartisan bill introduced to authorize supplying Israel with bunker-buster bombs
Two pro-Israel members of Congress introduced a bipartisan bill on Friday to provide Israel bunker-buster munitions as Iran and the United States appear to be nearing an agreement in negotiations to rejoin the Joint Comprehensive Plan...
US ambassador to Israel calls settlement growth ‘infuriating,’ backs a divided Jerusalem
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides joined Americans for Peace Now (APN) in a webinar on Tuesday to discuss his new job and what his vision is for the region. “I’m center-left,” he said....
Study shows pro-BDS faculty members contribute to campus anti-Semitism
A new study by the watchdog group AMCHA Initiative revealed that university faculty members who endorse an academic boycott of Israel are directly contributing to the anti-Semitic activity taking place on their campuses.
The study, titled...
Yeshiva University cancels student program featuring anti-Israel speaker
Administrators at Yeshiva University canceled a student-planned program that would have featured an anti-Israel speaker who supported terrorists.
The program, which was scheduled for March 1 at the Benjamin Cardozo Law School in Manhattan, a...
Pastor John Hagee: Begin was ‘heroic’ to bomb Iraqi reactor, Iran ‘even more dangerous’
One of America’s most powerful Christian supporters of Israel sees clear similarities between Iran’s race towards nuclear weapons and a daring Israeli strike on an Iraqi nuclear reactor back in 1981.
In a wide-ranging interview,...
Sierra Club reverses course, decides to reinstate Israel trips after talk with rabbi
After canceling its trips to Israel due to pressure from anti-Israel groups, the California-based Sierra Club will reportedly reinstate those trips in response to backlash from Israel supporters.
The news came after a call on Tuesday between...
Jewish House reps condemn Amnesty USA head for saying Israel ‘shouldn’t exist as a...
All 25 Jewish members among the Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives issued a statement condemning Amnesty International USA Executive Director Paul O’Brien’s recent remarks about how Israel “shouldn’t exist as a Jewish state.”
The March 14 statement,...
Senate Republicans to Biden: Without bipartisan support, new deal ‘will not survive’
A group of 49 Republican senators wrote on Monday to U.S. President Joe Biden that it would not support a new nuclear deal with Iran and vowed to “reverse” any agreement that weakens sanctions...
Enlisting Christian media in fight against anti-Semitism
At its national convention, the National Religious Broadcasters—a nonpartisan, international association of Christian communicators—announced that its board of directors adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (INRA) working definition of anti-Semitism, with the call to fight anti-Semitism front and...