Monthly Archives: July 2024
‘Despicable acts by unpatriotic protesters’ at Union Station, Harris says
The day after anti-Israel rioters burned American flags and tagged areas near Washington’s Union Station with antisemitic graffiti—ostensibly in protest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress—Kamala Harris,...
Pelosi calls Netanyahu’s speech the ‘worst’ of any foreign leader in Congress
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, sharply criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress on Wednesday afternoon as the “worst” by a foreign leader in...
UNRWA ‘not as an organization engaged in the conflict,’ US envoy says
Although Washington takes Israel’s allegations that employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency took part in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack “very, very seriously,” it does not believe that the global body’s relief...
RJC places five-figure ad buy against Vice President Kamala Harris
In response to her decision not to attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress on Wednesday afternoon, the Republican Jewish Coalition announced its first digital advertising buy against Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive...
Deal with Hamas in reach, senior US official says
A senior Biden administration official who spoke on background with reporters on Wednesday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress denied that Netanyahu is holding up a deal that...
Jerusalem warns Paris of Iran-backed plan to strike Israeli Olympians
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz sent a message to French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné on Thursday, one day prior to the launch of the Olympic Games in Paris, warning of an Iranian threat to...
YouGov poll: Support for Israel fell since Oct. 7, while Palestinian sympathy rose
YouGov released a poll this week conducted in partnership with The Economist showing decreased advocacy for Israel among Americans.
The group’s research suggested that since a high of pro-Israel sympathies at 48% on Oct. 14—one week after the Hamas...
Film to feature Timothée Chalamet as Jewish table-tennis star Marty Reisman
Timothée Chalamet, the 28-year-old star of the epic sci-fi “Dune” series, is taking a more down-to-earth role in a new movie based on the life of Marty Reisman, a Jewish table tennis champion.
“Marty Supreme” will feature...
Excavations reveal decorated floor of Vilna’s Great Synagogue
Excavations of the Great Synagogue of Vilna, Lithuania, destroyed by the Nazis during the Holocaust, have revealed the floor of the main prayer hall, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Thursday. The uncovered sections...
Musk and megachurch, rapture and reprise: Netanyahu’s dark speech to Congress
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress was a strange animal: A pseudo-State of the Union merged with evangelical megachurch preaching and a military pep talk, with enough chest-thumping Americana to trigger a round of 'U.S.A.!'...