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May 8, 2024

Biden Admin. withholding munitions to Israel over Rafah, “played” Israel with Hamas hostages “deal”

Smoke rises after an Israeli air strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 7, 2024. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90. by Joshua Marks (JNS) — The Biden administration on May 7 confirmed reports that it had held up […]
May 8, 2024

Report: U.S. failed to inform Israel before announcing truce with agreement Hamas altered

Palestinians celebrate in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, after Hamas announced its approval of a ceasefire on May 6, 2024. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90. (JNS) — The Biden administration did not inform Jerusalem in advance of Hamas’s “acceptance” […]
May 8, 2024

A coming war? Campus protest connections to domestic terrorism network

Anti-Israel protester in Toronto. Credit: Greg Finnegan/Shutterstock by Benjamin Kerstein (JNS) — Over the weekend, I read one of the most disturbing pieces of journalism I have ever encountered. Via her Substack, the intrepid Eve Barlow — one of the […]
May 6, 2024

U. Penn encampment continues as Philadelphia police refuse requests to clear it

The University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia. Credit: SINITAR/Shutterstock. by David Isaac (JNS) — As tensions escalate at a Gaza Solidarity Encampment at the University of Pennsylvania, administrators are taking a dialogue and de-escalation approach, possibly because they have no […]
May 5, 2024

Citing security risks and antisemitic incitement, Israel shuts down Al Jazeera bureau

Photo by Gil C/Shutterstock. by Troy Osher Fritzhand (JNS) — The Israeli Cabinet voted unanimously on May 5 to approve a Knesset bill from last month that will bring about the closure of Al Jazeera’s bureau in the country. “The […]
May 5, 2024

Hamas fires at border aid crossing from civilian areas of Rafah, kills three IDF soldiers

Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene of a mortar shell attack near the Kerem Shalom Crossing in southern Israel, May 5, 2024. Photo by Flash90. (JNS) — Three Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed and at least three […]
May 5, 2024

Report states U.S. withheld shipment of ammo to Israel

U.S. President Joe Biden in Tel Aviv on Oct. 18, 2023. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90. (JNS) — The Biden administration has halted a shipment of U.S.-made ammunition to Israel, Axios reported on May 5, citing two officials in Jerusalem. According to […]
May 5, 2024

Hamas can’t provide names for 10,000 reported dead; cuts women, children percentage claim

Israeli forces operating in the Gaza Strip, Feb. 8, 2024. Credit: IDF. (JNS) — The Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health can’t provide names of more than 10,000 of the 34,000 it says have died during the war with Israel, the […]
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 […]
May 3, 2024

Unusual times: Could the Jewish vote be in play, and swing the election?

Former U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and U.S. President Donald Trump on the campaign trail in 2020. Source: Trump campaign via Facebook/Biden Campaign via Facebook. by Caroline Glick (JNS) — A few weeks ago, a sermon […]
May 3, 2024

Twenty years of groundwork: Who is funding the campus Gaza protests?

A pro-Hamas protest encampment on the campus of Columbia University in New York City, April 22, 2024. Credit: Lev Radin/Shutterstock. by Shimon Sherman (JNS) — Over the past few weeks, dramatic scenes of mob action have unfolded across dozens of […]