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Legislators meet with ambassadors of UAE, Bahrain, Morocco to advance Gaza group
The Abraham Accords Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives organized its second meeting of the Gaza Working Group on July 26.
Reps. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.), Ann Wagner (R-Mo.), David Trone (D-Md.) and Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.)...
US envoy praises Qatar’s role in maintaining ‘peace and security’
U.S. Ambassador to Qatar Timmy Davis stressed the importance of Washington’s diplomatic relationship with Doha for regional “peace and security,” speaking during a meeting with Qatar’s chief spokesperson on Monday.
Davis said he sat down...
Pennsylvania students testify in state capital about college antisemitism
Jewish students from Penn State University, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Pennsylvania testified last week at the state capitol building in Harrisburg, Pa., as part of a Pennsylvania Senate Education Committee public hearing...
NJ woman charged with embezzling more than $350,000 from shul
Stacy Margaritondo, 51, allegedly embezzled more than $350,000 from a synagogue in Union County, N.J., the U.S. Justice Department said last week without revealing the name of the religious institution.
The defendant allegedly stole the funds between...
Israel and Hezbollah: A Legal Assessment of Israel’s ‘War in the North’
The author, Professor Emeritus of International Law, explores the complex legal and strategic considerations underpinning Israel's ongoing conflicts with Hamas and Hezbollah...
“An intentional act of injustice is an injury. A Nation has therefore the...
Hamas deserves Argentina’s terrorism designation
At 7:56 am on Oct. 7, 2023, Ronit Sultan, the daughter of Argentine immigrants, texted her daughter-in-law to “take care of yourself” as rockets from Gaza flew overhead.
Ten minutes later, Ronit texted a friend that Hamas...
Worrying signals on the Middle East from Britain’s new Labour government
It’s been only three weeks since Sir Keir Starmer was elected as Britain’s new prime minister in the Labour Party’s first general election triumph since 2005, but so much has happened in the aftermath—the...
Kamala Harris wants it both ways on Israel
Since she became the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party for the presidency in the last week, backers of Vice President Kamala Harris have been doing their best to redefine her image. That has...
Nazi-stolen art returned to heirs in New York City ceremony
The family of Fritz Grünbaum—a cabaret performer whose art collection was stolen by the Nazis during World War II and the Holocaust—received “Seated Nude Woman, front view,” a work by Austrian artist Egon Schiele.
The Manhattan...
California school district violated Title VI by failing to address antisemitism
A California school system failed to follow the 1964 Civil Rights Act by not protecting Jewish students from antisemitism, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR).
That office announced on Friday that...