Monthly Archives: June 2024
Removal of Jewish students from NJ high school yearbook under investigation
After the names and faces of members of the Jewish Student Union at East Brunswick High School were replaced with pictures of Muslim students, the New Jersey public school district hired a law firm...
UK police arrest London man for pro-Hamas social-media post
British counter-terrorism police arrested a man from west London on Wednesday after he was suspected of supporting Hamas due to a post he placed to social media.
The 43-year-old man was reported to the Counter...
As antisemitic mobs attack, Jewish leaders call to ban masks in New York
New York is seeing calls to prohibit masks and implement a mask ban similar to the kind that helped combat the Ku Klux Klan decades ago.
With the number of antisemitic and anti-Israel incidents sharply...
How Hamas keeps hostages in the heart of Gaza
Abdel Rahman al-Jamal, a 63-year-old veteran member of the Gaza legislative council, is deeply entrenched in Hamas’s apparatus and has played a central role in the recent hostage crisis.
In his book “Lexicon of the...
Notes from the safest place in Europe for Jews
This is a perilous time to be a Jew. The world responded to the greatest mass slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust with a surge of antisemitism and sympathy for those who committed the...
International law is not the problem
There is much room to improve international law in order to deal with terrorism and the use of force by non-state actors. But that is not essential to fighting terrorism. The law matters but is not...
RJC endorses Oklahoma Rep. Tom Cole
The Republican Jewish Coalition voiced its support for Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), chair of the House Appropriations Committee, in his race for Oklahoma’s 4th District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives
“Tom Cole played an indispensable...
US drones still flying over Gaza, aiding hostage rescue, Pentagon says
Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, the U.S. Department of Defense press secretary, insisted in a press conference on Monday that the temporary pier anchored to the coast of Gaza played no role whatsoever...
Temporary pier anchored to Gaza coast operating again after repairs
Repairs on the broken Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore were completed, and the temporary pier was re-anchored to the Gazan coast and began operating again on Saturday, according to the U.S. Defense Department.
Air Force Maj. Gen....
In first meeting with new Palestinian Authority leader, Blinken welcomes plans to reform the...
In his first meeting with the new Palestinian Authority prime minister on Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken welcomed the PA’s plans to pass a series of administrative reforms.
Blinken stressed “the need for full...