Daily Archives: September 3, 2024
White House: Murder of six hostages demonstrates Hamas’s evil, need for hostage deal
Hamas’s murder of six hostages, including U.S. citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin, makes a ceasefire-for-hostages deal more urgent, the White House said Tuesday.
John Kirby, the White House national security communications advisor, told reporters that Hamas leaders...
Overwhelming majority of Israelis back Netanyahu’s positions on Philadelphi Corridor, oppose protests
Israeli and international media are transfixed by anti-government demonstrations in Tel Aviv demanding an immediate hostage deal at any price, per a new, in-depth JNS poll of Israeli public opinion.
The survey, conducted by Direct...
Netanyahu to Gantz: Those who don’t help war effort ‘would do well not to...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hit back at National Unity Party chair Benny Gantz on Tuesday night after the former War Cabinet member, who returned to the opposition in June, accused him of putting...
Amsterdam exhibit focuses on neglected aspect of the Holocaust: looted Judaica
Stories about art looted during the Holocaust abound, but they tend to focus on major works by noted artists worth vast amounts of money.
“Beyond the masterpieces, there remains a largely hidden world of lesser-known...
Long Beach synagogue honors local police with Labor Day barbecue
For the third consecutive year, the Jewish community of Long Beach and Lido Beach on Long Beach Barrier Island in New York have shown their appreciation for the Long Beach Police Department and Nassau...
Jews in Judea and Samaria demand wider campaign against Palestinian terror
Hundreds of Israeli residents of Judea and Samaria gathered in protest at intersections throughout the territory on Tuesday night, demanding that the army launch a broad operation against Palestinian terrorism.
The rallies, called by the...
UK politician criticized for using anti-Nazi poem to oppose smoking ban
British parliament member Esther McVey met with immediate pushback late last week after sharing lines on social media from a poem by Martin Niemöller titled “First They Came,” including the line “then they came for the Jews,” in...
Montana ‘going to get some answers’ on firm’s alleged anti-Israel practices
Montana’s attorney general told JNS that the state is “going to get some answers, and I think we’re going to change some behavior here,” after it opened an investigation into potential anti-Israel practices at the major...
Education Department resolves federal Jew-hatred complaint against University of Illinois
The U.S. Department of Education announced on Tuesday that it resolved a complaint alleging “numerous incidents of antisemitism” at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, “including the recurring appearance of swastikas throughout campus, mezuzahs ripped...
Archaeology is a big problem for the Palestinian cause
Israeli archaeologists in Jerusalem found a 2,700-year-old stone seal last week near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. It’s just a few inches in diameter, but it’s a big deal for Zionism—and another blow to the Palestinian...