Daily Archives: February 23, 2024
Jews who experience antisemitism give to charity at higher levels
Data published in a new report, “American Jewish Philanthropy 2022: Giving to Religious and Secular Causes in the U.S. and to Israel,” shows multiple trends impacting Jewish families’ gifts to nonprofit groups. One of them—experiences with...
‘Anti-Israel hypocrisy, hate,’ says AIPAC, after AOC calls it ‘NRA of foreign policy’
In the latest Washington alphabet soup, AOC called AIPAC the “NRA of foreign policy.”
The progressive “Squad” member, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who has a long anti-Israel history, responded on social media to a post from the...
South Dakota legislature passes bill using IHRA to define Jew-hatred
The South Dakota state legislature passed HB1076, which enshrines the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism into law.
The state House of Representatives approved amendments on Friday of the bill, which passed the state Senate 31-3...
Blinken: New Israeli housing units ‘inconsistent with international law’
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday that Israel’s approval of 3,000 new housing units in Judea—announced after one Israeli was killed and six wounded in a terrorist attack near Jerusalem—is “contrary to international law.”
That declaration...
Photographer’s award praised by ‘Times’ same day he’s named in lawsuit
Meaghan Looram, director of photography at The New York Times, praised on Feb. 21 the “fearless and compassionate work” of Yousef Masoud, who just won a George Polk Award in Journalism for his photography related to the...
Hamas rockets must stop before two-state solution, 13 Dems in Congress say
U.S. President Joe Biden and officials at the White House, U.S. State Department and other departments in the administration have repeatedly stated that Hamas must release all of the hostages it holds in Gaza...
AJC official appointed to US State Department’s antisemitism envoy office
Julie Katz, the Atlanta associate director of the American Jewish Committee, will take a year off from her position to serve in the U.S. State Department, working with Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the U.S. special envoy to...
Sans new funds, UNRWA’s operations to be ‘severely compromised’ by March
Philippe Lazzrini, commissioner-general of UNRWA, asked the president of the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday for permanent U.N. budgetary support for the scandal-plagued Palestinian-only refugee and social services agency.
Lazzrini wrote to Dennis Francis appealing to U.N....
Israel is both traumatized and sober-minded
There’s a “new wisdom” making the rounds in foreign-policy circles in Washington. It goes something like this: Israelis were so traumatized by Hamas’s brutal invasion on Oct. 7 that they can’t think straight about...
Is Biden worrying about losing the wrong voters?
Maybe President Joe Biden and his White House handlers are looking at their re-election problems through the wrong end of the telescope. Their top priority these days is doing something about their problems with...