Daily Archives: May 10, 2024
Resolve and optimism between Yom Hashoah and Israel’s national holidays
When I was debating whether to join a command course in the army, my late grandmother Esther told me, “In Auschwitz, we didn’t volunteer. We always tried to hide in the back.”
This advice was...
What Biden didn’t say about antisemitism
U.S. President Joe Biden’s speech on May 7 at the U.S. Capitol, during which he eloquently revisited Nazi Germany’s journey from racial laws discriminating against Jews to outright genocide, demonstrating the parallels with today’s...
Reporter scolds State: ‘I was under the impression that you guys didn’t speak to...
Matt Lee, the Associated Press diplomatic writer who asks the first questions at U.S. State Department press briefings, pressed the Foggy Bottom spokesman on Thursday about U.S. President Joe Biden’s threat to the Jewish state.
Biden said...
Netanyahu: ‘If necessary, we will fight with our fingernails’
Jerusalem will win the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip with its fingernails, if necessary, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Thursday night, a day after U.S. President Joe Biden said he...
Martha Pollack, president of Cornell, to resign after intense campus protests
Martha E. Pollack, the president of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., has announced her plans to retire on June 30.
“It is only after extensive reflection that I have determined that this is the right decision,” she...
Hochul urges Jewish communal leaders to apply for boosted security grants
New York’s Gov. Kathy Hochul met with rabbis and other Jewish leaders on Wednesday at a roundtable discussion, some of whom grappled with bomb threats over the weekend.
Hochul said she was “outraged by the recent hateful...
Spain, Ireland, Slovenia to recognize Palestinian state
Spain, Ireland and other European Union countries plan to recognize a Palestinian state on May 21, Brussels’ foreign-policy chief Josep Borrell confirmed on Thursday.
He was speaking ahead of a U.N. General Assembly vote on Friday on a resolution...
Haim Saban blasts blocked US weapons to Israel: ‘Bad decision on all levels’
U.S. President Joe Biden’s choice to halt offensive military transfers to the Jewish state out of opposition to a ground invasion by the Israeli Defense Forces into Rafah to defeat Hamas has earned praise...
Cotton on weapons freeze: ‘No choice but to impeach Biden’
U.S. President Joe Biden’s choice to halt offensive munitions transfers to Israel has inspired some Republicans to see a parallel in former President Donald Trump’s conduct with Ukraine which led to his first impeachment.
Sen....
Should Deborah Lipstadt resign in protest?
U.S. President Biden’s suspension of weapons deliveries to Israel places Deborah Lipstadt, the most prominent Jewish member of his administration, in quite a bind. How will she respond?
Let us recall the example set by...