Tag: White House
White House ‘disappointed’ Israel cancels delegation to Washington
John Kirby, the White House national security communications advisor, told reporters on Monday that the Biden administration is “disappointed” that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called off a high-level delegation to Washington to discuss a...
US to continue UNRWA funding ban for another year
The United States ban on funding the U.N. Relief and Works Agency will continue until at least March 2025, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
Two sources familiar with an agreement reached on Tuesday between U.S. congressional leaders and...
Biden to pressure Israel on alternatives to Rafah op
The White House will present alternative plans designed to dissuade Jerusalem from carrying out a full-scale military operation in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah when an Israeli delegation visits Washington early next week, Axios reported on...
Kamala Harris demands ‘immediate ceasefire, for at least next six weeks’
Overlooking Edmund Pettus Bridge, the site of the “Bloody Sunday” attacks on civil-rights activists in 1965 in Selma, Ala., U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris opened her speech marking the 59th anniversary of that violence...
Joe Biden,Benjamin Netanyahu,Hostages,Hamas,Gaza Strip,Humanitarian Aid,Settlements,King Abdullah II
When the White House announced its new national strategy to counter antisemitism on May 25, it stated that 24 organizations were supporting “the whole-of-society call to action.”
The Council on American-Islamic Relations was among the two dozen,...
Cochav Elkayam-Levy meets with senior White House officials
Senior White House officials met on Dec. 6 with Cochav Elkayam-Levy, chair of Israel’s civil commission on Oct. 7 crimes by Hamas against women and children, per a White House readout.
Jennifer Klein, assistant to the...
White House interns demand Biden call for ceasefire, end Israeli ‘apartheid’
More than 40 anonymous White House interns issued a letter to U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday demanding that the administration call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and support a...
Asked if Biden worries about rising antisemitism, press secretary pivots to Muslims
About three-quarters of the way into the White House press briefing on Monday, a reporter asked about U.S. President Joe Biden's "level of concern right now about the potential rise of antisemitism in light...
‘I have your back,’ Biden tells US Jews in pre-High Holidays call
In a High Holidays call with rabbis and other clergy, U.S. President Joe Biden discussed his commitment to the security of American Jews and his relationship with Israel, as well as made the highly...
Three US presidential campaigns respond to Biden’s Netanyahu snub
It’s the gift that keeps on not giving.
Months after Benjamin Netanyahu was re-elected Israeli prime minister late last year, U.S. President Joe Biden has yet to invite the leader of one of Washington’s closest...