Daily Archives: April 25, 2024
Biden, world leaders issue joint statement demanding release of hostages
U.S. President Joe Biden and 17 other world leaders issued a joint statement on Thursday calling on Hamas to immediately free all of the hostages the terrorist organization is still holding in the Gaza...
US Holocaust museum: Jewish students ‘face blatant antisemitism, intimidation and violence’
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum issued a statement on Monday condemning what it described as a “shocking eruption of antisemitism on many American college and university campuses.”
Since the Hamas terrorist attacks on Oct. 7 that resulted in...
Minister Gamliel to JNS: Israel will destroy Hamas, and the US knows it
Destroying Hamas is not a matter of if, but when, and Israel’s allies know this is the case, Israeli Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology Gila Gamliel told JNS on Thursday.
“All our friends know...
Palestinian hatred is caused by Palestinians
There is a quote falsely attributed to first Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion: “We must expel the Arabs and take their places. … And if we have to use force—not to dispossess the Arabs...
Antisemitism will not be tolerated in Texas. Period,’ governor says
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wrote on Wednesday about arrests that state troopers and riot police made of anti-Israel protesters at the University of Texas at Austin, one of the largest and top-ranked public universities in the...
Take ‘immediate action’ against Jew-hatred, 27 GOP senators demand of US ed secretary, attorney...
A group of 27 U.S. senators wrote to Merrick Garland, the U.S. attorney general, and Miguel Cardona, the U.S. education secretary, on Tuesday demanding that the officials “take action to restore order and protect...
Smotrich threatens to topple PA if ICC, UN take unilateral action against Israel
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Thursday threatened to crush the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) financially if certain unilateral actions are brought against Israel in the international arena.
In an open letter to Israeli Prime Minister...
No green light from Washington for Rafah mission, US envoy says
Despite reports to the contrary, the Biden administration has not given Jerusalem its approval of a military operation in Rafah—the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip—the U.S. State Department’s top Middle East diplomat said on...
UN official lauds Israel for more aid in Gaza but calls for ‘paradigm shift’
Israel has taken measures to improve the delivery of provisions in the Gaza Strip; however, there needs to be a “paradigm shift” to continue to meet the “immense needs” of the enclave’s civilian population “in...
When praying at a Jewish Holy Site is a crime
(Moshe Phillips is a commentator on Jewish affairs whose writings appear regularly in the American and Israeli press.)
When is it a crime for a Jew to pray at a Jewish holy site? When the...