Firebrand former IDF general emphasizes plan to encourage Palestinian emigration, while deputies Haddad and Hassan-Nahoum focus on Israel’s public relations

The resolution condemns the incident as ‘an act of terrorism and as an attack on the safety of international civil aviation’

The senator did not publicly address Qatar’s checkered human rights record, even while sharing more direct and extensive criticisms of Saudi Arabia during a stop in Riyadh

Michael Needham said the 9/11 attacks and Oct. 7 were flashpoints in an ongoing ‘battle between civilization and barbarism,’ at an event commemorating the third anniversary of the Hamas attacks

Plus, IHRA gains traction in LATAM

The Jewish Federation of Greater Portland urged the University of Oregon to take action after antisemitic flyers called for ‘Hillel off campus’

The ringleader of the alleged conspiracy is Gaza-based Hamas official Saleem Alzaq, a member of Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigades and one of its propaganda offices

The Connecticut Democrat, who has called Qatar the ‘best partner’ in the Gulf, was lauded by a top Qatari diplomat for ‘consistently supporting closer U.S.-Qatar ties’

Kaploun said countries including the Dominican Republican, Colombia, Guatemala, Paraguay, Costa Rica and Chile are all considering adopting the definition

Jocelyn Benson, the party’s gubernatorial nominee, is also slated to attend the Oct. 24 event

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) argued during her first joint campaign appearance with Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed that the Jewish vote is not a monolith and that some Jewish voters are prioritizing other issues than Israel and antisemitism. Many prominent Jewish Democrats in Michigan have offered strident criticism of El-Sayed, saying they will not... Read More

The GOP candidate for New York attorney general, Saritha Komatireddy, posed for photos with the group, which has called Jews ‘imposters’ and the ‘Synagogue of Satan’

‘Mike stands with Israel and he stands up to antisemitism,’ Montebello Deputy Mayor Stacy Caridi said in a statement

With neither the Netanyahu-led government or the Eisenkot-led opposition winning enough support for a solid majority, a governing stalemate is looking more likely — in a repeat of the 2019-2020 elections

The president posted the GOP senator’s personal cell phone number online, urging constituents to pressure him directly

Far-right Maryland Republican Dan Cox’s son and ‘bodyguard’ sent an antisemitic rant to a consultant

Plus, another Jewish Dem endorses Lawler

Two weeks after Oct. 7, before the IDF had entered Gaza, El-Sayed said there was a ‘genocide being perpetrated against innocent Palestinians’

The ad features an Iranian American who pressed El-Sayed to condemn Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

The lawmakers said Ankara is carrying out an 'alarming campaign of repression’ against the community, including raids and arrests

Adam Hamilton called Israel’s war in Gaza ‘irresponsible and unjust’ but said he does not believe Israel’s intent ‘is to wipe out a group of people

While Republicans have embraced the program that is being championed by Jewish community groups, only Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has opted in so far among Democrats

Jewish leaders say neither Ken Paxton nor James Talarico has done much outreach — and Talarico's leftward tack on Israel and Paxton's scandals give them pause

The database is the army’s latest effort to rebut accusations from international media organizations, human rights groups and politicians that Israel deliberately targeted journalists during its war in Gaza

ADL study grades 40 museums, tracks pressure on Jewish authors and catalogs 65 disrupted or canceled performances since Oct. 7

Plus, Riyadh's self-inflicted Houthi headache

Elisha Wiesel urged the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday to speak up against what he called the false accusation that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, arguing that the institution his father helped create has a “unique responsibility” to address the issue. Wiesel, the son of Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie... Read More

David Haskell promised future story assignments tied to Sephardic and Mizrahi heritage but declined to issue a correct to the controversial cover issue that spurred the discussion

Nithya Raman, a democratic socialist mounting a formidable bid to unseat Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass next month, faced a particularly hostile crowd on Tuesday night at a Jewish community candidate forum, where the city councilwoman fielded several tough questions about Israel. Her answers drew audible groans from the audience members at the Skirball Center... Read More

Superintendent Thomas Taylor admitted the district should have reacted better to a recent antisemitic incident in a response to local clergy

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that the Omani co-pilot accused of trying to crash a FlyDubai flight to Israel had undergone “Islamist radical indoctrination,” while cautioning that investigators have not yet determined whether he had ties to Iran or other foreign actors or was acting alone. The comments came a day after the... Read More

DMFI President Brian Romick: ‘We are equally clear that there is no lasting peace without Israeli responsibility and no Palestinian state without credible Palestinian governance’

Elisha Wiesel urged the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday to speak up against what he called the false accusation that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, arguing that the institution his father helped create has a “unique responsibility” to address the issue. Wiesel, the son of Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie... Read More

The two lawmakers also met with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and Lebanese Forces Party leader Samir Farid Geagea

The Israel on Campus Coalition, Students Supporting Israel, Longhorns for Israel and others brought Maya Regev to campus to speak about her 50 days in Hamas captivity

The bill would also ban trade with all Israeli settlements, mirroring the approach taken by European and other allies

FEMA announced that over 1,600 nonprofits would receive funding from the program, totaling $300 million

The planned meeting on Thursday was canceled after the Senate left town early; the chamber is not expected to return until after the midterm elections

President Donald Trump defended Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week against reports that he ignored warnings from Egypt and the United Arab Emirates about the possibility of a Hamas attack in the weeks prior to Oct. 7, 2023, while declining to say whether Israelis should give Netanyahu another term. Trump made the comments in... Read More

Yaniv Hayoun said he helped overpower the co-pilot and briefly took control of the aircraft after the captain was stabbed

Plus, Riyadh's self-inflicted Houthi headache

The mayor pushed back on questions about pouring cash into nonprofits and not changing his Israel rhetoric

U.S. efforts to protect commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz have helped revive Persian Gulf oil exports and weaken Iran’s grip on the waterway, experts now acknowledge, but a debate is brewing over how durable those gains are, and whether Washington is willing to sustain the costly naval commitment that underpins them. Persian Gulf... Read More

On Tuesday, the day his new memoir about spending 491 days in Russian captivity hit bookshelves, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich reflected on the country he covered for six years — and on how dramatically life there has changed for Russian Jews since the start of the war in Ukraine.  Speaking at the Streicker... Read More