Tag: U.S. House of Representatives
House leaders demand 10 elite colleges detail plans to counter campus Jew-hate
The heads 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...
Efforts ‘taking place right now’ to secure release of hostages, Netanyahu tells US Congress
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday afternoon delivered his fourth address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress, in which he called for a decisive victory over the Hamas terror group and...
Republican Jewish Coalition endorses eight candidates taking on incumbents
The Republican Jewish Coalition has endorsed eight candidates who are running against House incumbents.
The “standout” challengers are Gabe Evans (Colorado-8), Austin Theriault (Maine-2), Yvette Herrell (New Mexico-2), Laurie Buckhout (North Carolina-1), Derek Merrin (Ohio-9),...
The antisemitic spring is over
The antisemitic spring is over but not forgotten. In one of the few victories over the haters, New York “Squad member” Rep. Jamaal Bowman was crushed in the Democratic primary 59% to 41% by...
House panel tells five US agencies to review funding of schools with Jew-hatred
The U.S. House of Representatives Science, Space and Technology Committee wrote to leaders of five U.S. departments and agencies—the Department of Energy, Department of Commerce, National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency and NASA—on Thursday...
On 30th anniversary of AMIA bombing, House reps call for justice
The four co-chairs of the Latino-Jewish Congressional Caucus submitted a resolution on Wednesday to hold accountable the Iranian-sponsored terrorists who bombed the Buenos Aires Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA) building on July 18, 1994, leaving 85 dead and more than...
Abraham Accords, moving US embassy to blame for Oct. 7 attack, AOC says
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), a member of the so-called progressive “Squad” in Congress, agreed with a far-left streamer that the Abraham Accords and former President Donald Trump’s decision to move the U.S. embassy to...
House reps urge labeling UNRWA staff who joined Oct. 7 attacks as terrorists
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives want to see stronger action against 12 former employees of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) for their involvement...
Bipartisan House coalition pushes for added funding for antisemitism envoy
A bipartisan push is underway in the House of Representatives to increase funding for the U.S. State Department’s antisemitism envoy office.
Members of the House Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism, including Reps. Grace Meng...
House Speaker Johnson to boost congressional efforts against campus Jew-hatred
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have announced plans to increase federal scrutiny as a result of the aggressive antisemitic environment that has emerged at universities across the country since Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attacks...