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Georgia police executives learn from leadership training in Israel

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During a recent intensive two-week leadership training program in Israel, 17 Georgia police chiefs, sheriffs and other public safety officials, as well as the deputy director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, participated in...

Police arrest anti-Israel activists on Emory campus, including faculty members

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Gregory L. Fenves, president of Emory University in Atlanta, released a statement on Friday about campus protests the day before that resulted in 28 arrests, placing the blame on outside agitators for a demonstration that ended...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga). Source: Twitter.

CUFI urges Republicans to reprimand Taylor Greene over anti-Semitic statements

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The lobbying arm of Christians United for Israel, CUFI Action Fund, is calling on Republican leadership in the House of Representatives to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) from committee assignments over her anti-Semitic...
Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.). Source: Andrew Clyde for Congress/Facebook.

Military veteran Andrew Clyde of Georgia looks forward to first trip to Israel

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U.S. Navy veteran Andrew Clyde, a Republican, easily defeated his Democratic opponent, Devin Pandy, with 79.6 percent of the vote to 21.4 percent, respectively, on Nov. 3 in the U.S. House of Representatives race...
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), bottom right, is sworn into office on Jan. 20, 2021. Source: Screenshot.

Jon Ossoff sworn in as first Jewish senator from Georgia

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Jon Ossoff was sworn in on Wednesday as the first Jewish U.S. senator from Georgia. Taking the oath on a Bible from the rabbi at The Temple in Atlanta, which was bombed by white supremacists...
Then-Georgia Democratic candidate for U.S. senate Jon Ossoff at a campaign rally in Athens, Ga.. on Oct. 27, 2020. Source: Jon Ossoff via Facebook.

Ossoff defeats Perdue in US Senate runoff in Georgia

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Democrat Jon Ossoff has defeated incumbent Republican Sen. David Perdue in one of the two U.S. Senate runoffs held in Georgia on Tuesday to determine which party would control the upper congressional chamber, media...
Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman with Yossi Cohen, national security adviser to the prime minister of Israel, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 18, 2015. Credit: U.S. Department of State.

Biden expected to tap more Obama alumni for national security posts

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U.S. President-elect Joe Biden is expected to tap more alumni from the former Obama administration for national security positions, according to media reports. Biden is expected to nominate Wendy Sherman, who was the lead negotiator...
Rev. Raphael Warnock. Source: Rev. Raphael Warnock/Facebook.

Video resurfaces of Warnock comparing Netanyahu to segregationist Wallace

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A video has resurfaced of Georgia Senate Democratic candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock comparing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to segregationist and former Alabama Gov. George Wallace. In a 2016 sermon, Warnock, pastor of the historic...
Georgia Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Rev. Raphael Warnock at a 2020 campaign rally. Source: Warnock/Facebook.

How do you define an ally of the Jews?

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How would you characterize someone who compared Israel to apartheid-era South Africa? Or who called Israel’s defense of its border with Gaza against Hamas demonstrations that called for the “right of return” and the Jewish state’s...
Marjorie Taylor Greene. Source: Screenshot.

GOP candidate in Georgia noted for anti-Semitic, racist remarks wins primary

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Jewish and pro-Israel groups slammed the Tuesday victory of Marjorie Taylor Greene, a businesswoman who has made anti-Semitic and other racist remarks, in the Republican run-off in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. Greene defeated neurosurgeon John Cowan...