Daily Archives: August 23, 2024
House leaders demand 10 elite colleges detail plans to counter campus Jew-hate
TheΒ headsΒ of the Education and the Workforce Committee, and the Ways and Means Committee have called on administrators at 10 top colleges to provide detailed plans to prevent bigotry and intimidation against Jewish students seen...
Senators call on IRS to investigate charities linked to anti-Israel protests
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) spearheaded a letter on Thursday to Daniel Werfe, commissioner of the IRS, about an βinsufficient and insultingβ response to an inquiry to review the legal compliance of nonprofit charities that...
Reports of βnear collapseβ of Cairo negotiations untrue, Kirby says
Discussions between Israel and Hamas in Cairo have been βconstructiveβ and ongoing, and media reports of a βnear collapseβ of negotiations for a ceasefire and hostage release deal are inaccurate, John Kirby told reporters...
Rutgers releases set of guidelines to curb tent encampment protests
Rutgers UniversityΒ hasΒ releasedΒ a newΒ setΒ of βguidelines for free expression on campusβ that would limit the large anti-Israel demonstrations seen on campus during the previous academic year.
The public university announced the newΒ rulesΒ on Tuesday, which include a ban...
Movement of US naval ships in Middle East has βgotten into the headspace of...
The movement of U.S. Navy assets to support the Jewish state and defend it, if necessary, from an attack from Tehran has gotten into Iranβs head, Sabrina Singh, the deputy Pentagon press secretary said...
As US arms sales to Riyadh resume, senators say hope for Israeli-Saudi relations
Earlier this month, the U.S. State Department announced that it had lifted a ban on selling certain weapons to Saudi Arabia.
The Biden administration βalways made clear that the freeze on certain classes of weapons...
Asked why no Palestinian on DNC dais, Pelosi says speakers couldβve brought up ceasefire...
In a briefing for foreign press at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Thursday, former House speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) pushed back at the idea that a Palestinian speaker should have been...
βQuality over quantity the key to Israelβs high-tech advantageβ
As fears of a major Iranian attack continue to grow, Israel must pay attention to a factor that garners far less attention than missiles, drones and nuclear weapons, one of the countryβs academic leaders...
J Street’s two faces on pro-Hamas protesters
In public, J Street says itβs horrified by the antisemitism of pro-Hamas protesters. But in private this week, J Streetβs president pressured Jewish Democrats to stop accusing the protesters of being antisemitic. Why the...
Israel has a βnatural and historicβ right to exist, the UN recognized in 1947,.before...
Abba Eban, Israelβs first permanent representative to the UN, once called the UN, βthe world center for anti-Semitism.β Attacks against Israel were so strident during his tenure , he said that βIf Algeria introduced...