July 10, 2024

House committee discusses measures targeting UN’s anti-Israel obsession

The United Nations flag is lowered to half-mast at U.N. headquarters on Nov. 13, 2023 to honor colleagues killed in Gaza. Credit: Evan Schneider/U.N. photo. by Andrew Bernard (JNS) — The House Foreign Affairs Committee debated a raft of measures […]
May 4, 2024

Reps. Gaetz, MTG cite claim that Jews killed Jesus in voting against antisemitism measure

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) at the 2021 AmericaFest in Phoenix, Ariz. Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons. While many House Democrats opposed a bill defining antisemitism on the claims that it might criminalize anti-Israel rhetoric, some Republican opponents used […]
April 3, 2024

Future U.S. diplomats being trained by Israel-hating faculty at Georgetown

Georgetown University. Credit: Weerawich/Shutterstock. by Mitchell Bard In the first week of the war, U.S. State Department officials began to protest their boss’s support for Israel. Since then, dozens more have sent dissent cables and signed statements criticizing U.S. policy, […]
March 23, 2024

Congress passes “most pro-Israel” Operations funding bill

The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Credit: SimaGhaffarzadeh/Pixabay. by Andrew Bernard (JNS) — The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed the “minibus” spending package that combines six appropriations bills, with billions in funding for Israel and other projects supported by […]
March 13, 2024

Plurality of Israelis prefer second Trump term to Biden reelection

Former U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and U.S. President Donald Trump on the campaign trail. Source: Trump campaign via Facebook/Biden Campaign via Facebook. (JNS) — Forty-four percent of Israelis want former U.S. President Donald Trump to […]
March 3, 2024

Southern Senators urge Biden to rescind decisions that “undercut” Israel

Jewish residents of the Ramat Migron outpost in Samaria, Sept. 8, 2023. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas urged President Joe Biden to rescind two recent decisions that “undercut our most valuable alliance in the Middle East,” […]
February 25, 2024

House Speaker Johnson slams Biden administration reversal on legality of Israeli homes in territories

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) speaks during a House Judiciary Committee field hearing on New York City violent crimes, at the Javits Federal Building in New York City on April 17, 2023. Credit: Lev Radin/Shutterstock. (JNS) — U.S. […]
December 6, 2023

House states anti-Zionism is Jew-hatred, as 92 Dems vote “present”

Final vote count for H.Res.894, “Strongly condemning and denouncing the drastic rise of antisemitism in the United States and around the world,” which passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Dec. 5, 2023. Source: C-Span. by Andrew Bernard (JNS) — […]
October 23, 2023

AOC: Christian fundamentalists fueling the Israel-Palestinian conflict

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) speaks during a Women’s Unity Rally at Foley Square attended by hundreds of people. Credit: Lev Radin/Shutterstock. by David Swindle (JNS) — While many have focused on radical, Islamic fundamentalism following Hamas’s terrorist attacks on Israel […]
January 25, 2023

Formerly pro-BDS legislator changes his mind

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the AIPAC Conference in Washington D.C., on March 6, 2018. Photo by Haim Zach. by Rabbi Uri Pilichowski (JNS) — From the earliest days of Zionism and the State of Israel, the Jewish […]
June 20, 2022

Louisiana Sen. Cassidy speaks at Univ. of Haifa 50th anniversary

From left: University of Haifa president professor Ron Robin, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and University of Haifa board member Eli Feinstein at the inauguration of University of Haifa’s Bloom School of Graduate Studies. Credit: The University of Haifa. (JNS) — […]