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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 16m
The Democratic National Committee announced the launch of a new Jewish constituency council in order to organize and engage Jewish Democrats in advance of the 2028 election. Matthew Kassel reports: ji.news/5kfw4
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DNC launches Jewish constituency council
The Jewish American Council within the DNC will ‘ensure Jewish Americans know that a vote for their Democratic candidate is a vote for their values,’ according to a statement
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 49m
Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman received a hostile reception at a mayoral forum — hosted by several leading Jewish organizations — when she defended BDS as "a legitimate form of peaceful protest."
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 49m
Read today's #DailyKickoff: 🙏 Israelis land in Saudi, miraculously Full briefing 👇 ji.news/5kfnt
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Israel-bound FlyDubai flight makes emergency landing in Saudi Arabia after suspected terror attack by co-pilot
Plus, this rising Michigan Dem won't back El-Sayed
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 1h
A FlyDubai flight from the United Arab Emirates bound for Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia this morning in what Israeli security officials said may have been a terrorist incident.
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Israel-bound FlyDubai flight makes emergency landing in Saudi Arabia after suspected terror attack by co-pilot
Video from the flight, traveling from the UAE to Tel Aviv, showed the pilot covered in blood after passengers reportedly subdued the attacking co-pilot
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 15h
Republican lawmakers are speaking up against recent moves by European countries to impose new sanctions and trade restrictions on Israeli settlements in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. Matthew Shea reports: ji.news/5kdcv
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GOP lawmakers criticize European sanctions against Israeli settlements
Republican lawmakers are speaking up against recent moves by European countries to impose new sanctions and trade restrictions on Israeli settlements in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. The latest restrictions took effect in the Netherlands on Sept. 22, when the country began barring goods obtained or produced wholly or partly in... Read More
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 15h
The Maine Democratic Senate candidate said, "It’s unfortunate that there are people here in Maine that don’t like to use that term only because they’re Jewish and what that means to them, with the Holocaust." Marc Rod reports: ji.news/5kdce
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Troy Jackson: ‘Unfortunate’ that Jewish Mainers reject ‘genocide’ label for Gaza war
The Maine Democratic Senate candidate said, ‘It’s unfortunate that there are people here in Maine that don’t like to use that term only because they’re Jewish and what that means to them, with the Holocaust’
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 17h
Maine Democratic Senate nominee Troy Jackson called it “unfortunate” that Jewish residents of Maine reject the labeling of the war in Gaza as a genocide. Read more: ji.news/5kd5d
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 20h
Democratic Majority for Israel’s PAC announced Tuesday that it is launching a $1 million digital ad campaign targeting Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA), who is running against former Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA). Marc Rod reports: ji.news/5kcea
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DMFI launches $1 million ad campaign supporting Elaine Luria
The digital ad targets Luria’s opponent, Rep. Jen Kiggans, over her support for Trump’s policies
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 20h
Mayor Mamdani’s administration released a 30-page plan that provides $7.4 million for security and prevention grants, but declines to adopt a definition of antisemitism and does not address Israel-related hate. Haley Cohen reports: ji.news/5kcbt
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Mamdani releases NYC strategy to combat antisemitism, receives mixed response from Jewish community
The plan provides $7.4 million in security grants but does not address Israel-related hate
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 21h
Democratic Michigan state Rep. Noah Arbit and 15 other Democratic leaders have joined the Nonnegotiable Michigan campaign that is laying out a series of demands for the state’s Democratic Senate nominee, Abdul El-Sayed, related to Jewish safety and Israel’s right to exist.
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Michigan state lawmaker, Jewish Dem leaders join call for El-Sayed to affirm commitment to Jewish safety
Democratic Michigan state Rep. Noah Arbit and 15 other Democratic leaders on Tuesday joined the Nonnegotiable Michigan campaign that is laying out a series of demands for the state’s Democratic Senate nominee, Abdul El-Sayed, related to Jewish safety and Israel’s right to exist. Arbit, one of the most vocal and visible Jewish elected officials in... Read More
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 22h
EXCLUSIVE | Sens. Jacky Rosen and James Lankford wrote to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg pressing him over the company’s failures to address antisemitic bot accounts on its platforms, urging Facebook and Instagram to label posts and users by their country of origin as a particularly important reform.
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Rosen, Lankford press Zuckerberg over antisemitic bot accounts on Facebook, Instagram
Sens. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and James Lankford (R-OK) wrote to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday pressing him over the company’s failures to address antisemitic bot accounts on its platforms, urging Facebook and Instagram to label posts and users by their country of origin as a particularly important reform. “We write to express grave concerns... Read More
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 23h
ANALYSIS | Antisemitic streamer Hasan Piker is scheduled to speak at a University of Texas campus event on Wednesday. Despite the event’s backing from the student Democratic Party group on campus, most Texas Democrats running for office in the historically conservative state have been silent.
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Sounds of silence: Texas Dems decline to speak out against Piker before his UT event
Antisemitic streamer Hasan Piker is scheduled to speak at a University of Texas campus event on Wednesday. Despite the event’s backing from the student Democratic Party group on campus, most Texas Democrats running for office in the historically conservative state have been silent when it comes to speaking out against the far-left influencer.  Texas is... Read More
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 29/09/2026
An independent federal commission on civil rights concluded, following a yearlong probe, that campus antisemitism is a “serious and growing civil rights concern,” but also suggested the Trump administration’s efforts to combat it went against both statute and established procedure.
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Federal commission highlights campus antisemitism concern, rebukes WH response
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights suggested that the Trump administration’s efforts to combat antisemitism at colleges and universities has ‘sometimes represented a departure from established practice,’ among other concerns
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 29/09/2026
In the years since the Oct. 7 attacks, New York magazine has emerged as a key platform for anti-Israel content, a uniquely hostile ideological shift that is exposing raw feelings on a topic editorial leaders have struggled to meaningfully address publicly and behind the scenes.
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Inside New York magazine's anti-Israel shift — and the Jewish staffers left behind
In the years since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attacks, New York magazine, once known for embodying the wry sophistication of the urban center left, has emerged as a key platform for anti-Israel content, a uniquely hostile ideological shift that is exposing raw feelings on a topic editorial leaders have struggled to meaningfully address publicly and... Read More
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 29/09/2026
Read today's #DailyKickoff: 🖋️ Inside NYMag's ink-quisition Full briefing 👇 ji.news/5kaiz
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Inside NYMag's ink-quisition
Plus, Riyadh's self-inflicted Houthi headache
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 29/09/2026
A recent open letter from Jewish Michiganders expressing support for Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed includes a series of figures with fringe or extremist views and backgrounds alongside several prominent members of the Jewish community.
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Jewish letter in support of El-Sayed includes numerous fringe figures
One signatory has repeatedly referred to pro-Israel officials as neo-Nazis while others have been involved with Students for Justice in Palestine and campus anti-Israel advocacy
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 28/09/2026
Did you miss today's Daily Overtime? Here's what's on our radar: • UAE puts Bibi visit on front page • Negotiations with Iran continue • Former Israeli hostage Noa Argamani joins venture capital firm Check out more: ji.news/5k8dk
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UAE puts Bibi visit on front page
Plus, MD rabbis sound alarm on school antisemitism
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 28/09/2026
More than 40 rabbis and cantors in Montgomery County, Md., warned in a letter that public school leaders have failed to address a rising tide of antisemitism in local classrooms, urging officials to implement new teacher training and stricter social media rules.
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Montgomery County. Md., rabbis accuse school district of failing to address antisemitism surge
More than 40 clergy members called on Superintendent Thomas Taylor to require antisemitism-specific teacher training and consequences for hateful social media posts
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 28/09/2026
“It’s an unbelievable idea that I can’t, to this day, fully get. Why would somebody be so interested in stopping me and just a handful of friends from planning a constitutionally protected class of gathering and assembly and religious prayer?” Daniel Grand asked in an interview with Jewish Insider.
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'Un-American': Ohio man who tried to host home minyan tells of harassment ahead of Supreme Court case
When Daniel Grand emailed friends and neighbors to invite them to a minyan at his home in 2021, he never imagined that email would set off a series of events that would trigger surveillance, harassment, antisemitism and ultimately a Supreme Court case. But five years later, Grand, an Orthodox Jew from University Heights, Ohio, is... Read More
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 28/09/2026
The race to succeed U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is still wide open, with seven candidates vying to lead an organization whose approach toward Israel has become a central concern for the United States and pro-Israel advocates.
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U.N. secretary-general race puts candidates’ Israel records in focus
The race to succeed U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is still wide open, with seven candidates vying to lead an organization whose approach toward Israel has become a central concern for the United States and pro-Israel advocates.  But even as the candidates stake out different records on Israel, diplomats and experts caution that the next secretary-general... Read More
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 28/09/2026
The State Department on Monday postponed a memorial event for the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel that was scheduled for Sept. 30.
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State Department postpones Oct. 7 memorial event
The event was scheduled to take place Sept. 30; plans for rescheduling remain unclear
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 28/09/2026
A few months before Mamdani met with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva during the U.N. General Assembly, his administration hired an expatriate supporter of the left-wing leader — an academic involved in a group tied to the sprawling global influence network of China-allied tech mogul Neville “Roy” Singham.
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Top Mamdani international affairs staffer linked to global left-wing influence network
A few months before New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani met with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva during the U.N. General Assembly on Monday, his administration hired an expatriate supporter of the left-wing South American leader — an academic and activist involved in a group tied to the sprawling global influence network of... Read More
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 28/09/2026
ANALYSIS | Two security incidents that were reported in the U.K. over the weekend are presenting Prime Minister Andy Burnham with some of his new government’s first major tests since taking power over the summer.
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The U.K.’s new government faces its first big security test
Two security incidents that were reported in the U.K. over the weekend are presenting Prime Minister Andy Burnham with some of his new government’s first major tests since taking power over the summer: how to address domestic counterterror threats and mounting issues related to asylum seekers, while also responding to concerns by British Jews over... Read More
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 28/09/2026
Read today's #DailyKickoff: Terror and crumpets Full briefing 👇 ji.news/5k5ua
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Terror and crumpets
Plus, Riyadh's self-inflicted Houthi headache
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 25/09/2026
Jewish groups and legal professionals are hailing new federal guidance aimed at combating antisemitic discrimination in healthcare as a powerful and timely tool, while warning that its impact will depend on the use and enforcement of those protections.
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Jewish groups praise new HHS guidelines aimed at combating antisemitism in healthcare
Jewish groups and legal professionals are hailing new federal guidance aimed at combating antisemitic discrimination in healthcare as a powerful and timely tool for protecting Jewish and Israeli patients and medical professionals, while warning that its impact will depend on the use and enforcement of those protections. The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office... Read More
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 25/09/2026
PayPal co-founder Max Levchin spoke to Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner about the Russia-Ukraine war and the rise of antisemitism around the globe.
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 25/09/2026
A federal advisory board to the Department of Education recommended that the department suspend the accreditation authority of the American Psychological Association over the APA’s failure to address a “pervasive culture of antisemitism within the programs it accredits.”
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Federal panel recommends suspending American Psychological Association’s accreditation authority
A federal advisory board to the Department of Education recommended that the department suspend the accreditation authority of the American Psychological Association over the APA’s failure to address a “pervasive culture of antisemitism within the programs it accredits.” The APA is the largest association of psychologists in the world and its Commission on Accreditation serves... Read More
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 25/09/2026
In her opening remarks honoring Peter Thiel, Bari Weiss quipped about the Jewish Messiah in listing her differences with the German-American entrepreneur and former CEO of PayPal.
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 25/09/2026
Asked by Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner about the rise of Germany's far-right parties, Peter Thiel said the trend "reflects a failure of the centrist parties" and said the AfD is wrong on its pro-Putin, pro-China, and anti-Israel stances.
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 25/09/2026
ANALYSIS | If Democrats take control of Congress next year — or even if they win back a majority in only the House of Representatives — expect a legislative agenda that’s a lot tougher on Israel than it has been in a long time. By Marc Rod
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Capitol Hill Democrats expected to crack down on Israel in next Congress
If Democrats take control of Congress next year — or even if they win back a majority in only the House of Representatives — expect a legislative agenda that’s a lot tougher on Israel than it has been in a long time. With growing support among House Democrats for legislation restricting U.S. aid and arms... Read More
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 25/09/2026
Read today's #DailyKickoff: 🍎🥊 Bibi bites back in the Big Apple Full briefing 👇 ji.news/5ju3a
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Bibi bites back in the Big Apple
Plus, Riyadh's self-inflicted Houthi headache
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 24/09/2026
Did you miss today's Daily Overtime? Here's what's on our radar: • Bibi takes on Mamdani, Qatar, Turkey at U.N. • El-Sayed sidesteps call to condemn Iran violence • APA accreditation called into question over antisemitism Check out more: ji.news/5js5k
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Bibi takes on Mamdani, Qatar, Turkey at U.N.
Plus, APA accreditation called into question over antisemitism
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 24/09/2026
“Israel didn’t commit genocide. Israel prevented genocide,” Netanyahu said. Addressing Mamdani, he added, “You try to silence me. Well, you can’t silence me. You can’t silence the truth.” Read more: ji.news/5jrr9
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 24/09/2026
Netanyahu denounced settler violence — characterized as vigilantism by "a handful of young juvenile delinquents" that resulted in "maybe two or three dead" — saying he assigned the Shin Bet to deal with it because Israel is a "country of law." Read more: ji.news/5jrq6
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 24/09/2026
Responding to French President Emmanuel Macron's UNGA remarks concerning the West Bank, Netanyahu cited the recent terrorist attacks against a French-Israeli citizen and Neria Leiter, the son of Israeli Amb. Yechiel Leiter. Read more: ji.news/5jrmc
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 24/09/2026
Sen. Thom Tillis joined Democrats and a handful of Republicans in voting for a war powers resolution demanding an end to the war in Iran. The measure failed by a 50-49 vote. Marc Rod reports: ji.news/5jrhz
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Senate narrowly rejects Iran war powers resolution, as Tillis joins Democrats to oppose war
The antiwar measure failed again, this time by a 50-49 vote
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 24/09/2026
Netanyahu pushed back against criticism of Israel over Gaza and the West Bank in his address to the UNGA on Thursday, taking aim at Mayor Zohran Mamdani, French President Emmanuel Macron, Qatar and Turkey. Marc Rod reports: ji.news/5jrhh
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Netanyahu targets Mamdani, Macron and foreign critics in UNGA address
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed back against criticism of Israel over Gaza and the West Bank in his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, taking aim at New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, French President Emmanuel Macron, Qatar and Turkey. After most of the hall conducted a walkout at the outset... Read More
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 24/09/2026
Several far-left Democrats expected to be elected to the House attended a protest organized by Jewish Voice for Peace that blocked the streets outside the UN headquarters during Netanyahu’s speech to the body’s General Assembly. Marc Rod reports: ji.news/5jrgf
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Incoming anti-Israel members of Congress protest against Netanyahu outside U.N.
New York Democrat Darializa Avila Chevalier was arrested by the NYPD for refusing to comply with an order to disperse
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 24/09/2026
In his UNGA address, Netanyahu alleged that "several foreign countries have spent untold billions to spread lies" about Israel, specifically calling out Qatar for "massively funding American universities and toxic media outlets like Al Jazeera ... [to] brainwash young minds to hate Israel."
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 24/09/2026
Arabella Kushner, President Trump's 15-year-old Jewish granddaughter, sat among his Cabinet members during President Xi's remarks at the White House. The daughter of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, Arabella sat between her mother and Secretary Rubio.
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 24/09/2026
Asked by a Persian American student at a town hall held at the University of Michigan to "stand unequivocally against the IRGC," Abdul El-Sayed sidestepped the question and criticized the U.S. for trying to be the "world’s policeman." Read more: ji.news/5jr33
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 24/09/2026
Pressed during an event on Wednesday to condemn the Iranian regime’s massacre of tens of thousands of protesters earlier this year, Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed sidestepped the question, focusing his answer on criticizing the U.S. war in Iran. Marc Rod reports:
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El-Sayed avoids acknowledging Iranian protester deaths, condemns Iran war instead
Asked by a student to ‘stand unequivocally against the IRGC,’ El-Sayed criticized the U.S. for trying to be the ‘world’s policeman’
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 24/09/2026
Nineteen Jewish House Democrats, writing under the auspices of the Congressional Jewish Caucus, sent a letter to Marco Rubio opposing a reported plan to merge the offices of the State Department’s special envoy for Holocaust issues and special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism.
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Congressional Jewish Caucus opposes proposal to combine State Dept. Holocaust, antisemitism offices
Nineteen Jewish House Democrats urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio not to allow a push to merge the two offices proceed and to keep Holocaust issues distinct
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 24/09/2026
Sen. Ted Cruz warned that Christian leaders are “asleep” and failing to recognize the degree to which antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment have spread among Christian youth.
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Cruz warns Christian leaders are ‘asleep' on antisemitism among youth
Accepting Chabad's Lamplighter award, the Texas senator warned that pastors don't see the drift on the right
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 24/09/2026
The State Department is planning a memorial ceremony for American victims of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel, currently scheduled for Sept. 30.
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State Department plans memorial for American victims of Oct. 7 attack
The American Jewish Committee is helping to bring victims to Washington for the Sept. 30 event
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 24/09/2026
ANALYSIS | Netanyahu’s trip to New York is set to be entirely different from anything seen before. The prime minister’s brief video message about his speech on Tuesday referenced only one individual: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
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Attack on Ambassador Leiter's son casts pall over Netanyahu's abbreviated UNGA visit
With no Trump meeting, a scrapped Musk visit and renewed U.S.-Iran talks, the trip Netanyahu envisioned a month before elections had already unraveled before Neria Leiter was wounded
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 24/09/2026
Read today's #DailyKickoff: ✈️🗽 Netanyahu's New York minute Full briefing 👇 ji.news/5jpbt
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Netanyahu's New York minute
Plus, Riyadh's self-inflicted Houthi headache
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 24/09/2026
On Monday morning — as Jews marked Yom Kippur — Politico published a pointed attack targeting David Milstein, an observant Jew who serves as senior advisor to Mike Huckabee, labeling his actions as a “national security threat” while failing to provide evidence for the claim.
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Politico picks Yom Kippur to attack Huckabee's observant Jewish aide
Politico casts David Milstein as a national security threat, citing a wedding invitation that offered guests a way to give customary gifts in dollars or shekels
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 24/09/2026
“I don’t know that we have the luxury of lowering our voices,” Zibby Owens told Jewish Insider. “In the Holocaust era, hiding is how people survived. But it’s gotten to a point where to prevent something like that happening again, we can’t hide.”
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In new book, Zibby Owens weaves memoir with a reckoning of Jewish life after Oct. 7
Owens said she wants her readers to feel like antisemitism ‘is happening to a friend’ by the time they reach the essays focused on the issue after chapters focused on divorce and motherhood
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Jewish Insider @jewishinsider.com · 24/09/2026
While Zibby Owens’ latest book opens with her intimate and sometimes humorous essays on divorce, motherhood and midlife weight gain, it gradually reveals a broader, weightier theme — the reality of life as a Jew in post-Oct. 7 America. “I want them to feel outraged,” Owens told Jewish Insider.
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In new book, Zibby Owens weaves memoir with a reckoning of Jewish life after Oct. 7
Owens said she wants her readers to feel like antisemitism ‘is happening to a friend’ by the time they reach the essays focused on the issue after chapters focused on divorce and motherhood
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