Tag: Virginia
Virginia certifies McGuire over Good in razor-thin 5th District primary
The Virginia State Board of Elections certified on Tuesday that State Sen. John McGuire defeated incumbent Rep. Bob Good in the Republican primary for the commonwealth’s 5th District.
McGuire eked out a win by a...
Northern Virginia sheriff probing anti-Israel graffiti at four Starbucks stores
The Loudoun County, Va. sheriff’s office is investigating “anti-Israel/pro-Palestine graffiti and property damage” that vandalized four Starbucks stores in Ashburn on Monday night.
“Hate speech and destruction of property will not be tolerated in Loudoun County,” said...
Kaine responds to anti-Israel activists: ‘This crisis has spiraled out of control’
A group of so-called “peace activists” that delivered an open letter to Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) received a reply last week deflecting their demands.
Anti-Israel activists asked Kaine to support university administrators meeting with students; denounce police action against...
Biden appoints Jewish legal expert to Library of Congress committee
U.S. President Joe Biden said on March 3 that among those he intends to appoint to key roles is a senior university administrator who is a Jewish expert on constitutional and civil-rights law.
Biden announced Risa...
Federal agency to investigate Virginia school district’s response to reports of anti-Semitic harassment
The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) this week announced it will investigate whether the Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) in Virginia failed to adequately respond to reports of incidents of anti-Semitic...
Virginia museum unveils memorial honoring child victims of the Holocaust
The Virginia Holocaust Museum has opened a permanent Children’s Memorial dedicated to young victims of the Holocaust, the first of its kind in the United States, reported the local NBC 12.
The memorial, which took more...
Days after inauguration, Virginia Gov. Youngkin OKs commission on anti-Semitism
Just hours after his inauguration as the new governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin signed an executive order on Saturday establishing a commission to combat anti-Semitism.
According to the text of Executive Order,...
Neo-Nazis are not a political metaphor
All may be fair in love, war and politics, but you have to wonder about the astonishingly poor judgment of the political gurus at the Lincoln Project for their latest act of campaign malpractice....
Virginia Tech graduate senate OKs BDS resolution, accuses Israel of ‘ethnic cleansing’
The Graduate and Professional Student Senate at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, Va., passed a resolution on Oct. 21 endorsing BDS.
It calls for the boycott of “all Israeli academic institutions...
Did the Charlottesville quote define Donald Trump?
Three years later, we’re still quoting, discussing and debating it. If there is a defining moment of the presidency of Donald Trump, it took place at a press conference on Aug. 15, 2017, when...