The News

May 1, 2024

Beeson student making the speaking rounds as Christian defender of Israel

Caroline Bass speaks at event in Fayette. Photo courtesy John Killian by Richard Friedman Shortly after the Oct. 7 terrorist attack against Israel, Birmingham Jewish community members Susan Greene and Caryn Corenblum were walking on Overton Road near the building […]
April 26, 2024

Former top Hague judge: Media wrong to report court ruled ‘plausible’ claim of Israeli genocide

Joan Donoghue, judge and president of the International Court of Justice, briefs reporters at U.N. Headquarters on Oct. 28, 2022. Credit: Loey Felipe/U.N. Photo. by Mike Wagenheim (JNS) — Media reports that the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel […]
April 26, 2024

N.Y. Times soft-pedals extremism at anti-Israel encampments

“The New York Times” building in Midtown Manhattan. Photo by Carin M. Smilk. (JNS) — “At Columbia, the protests continued, with dancing and pizza,” read a New York Times headline last week. Two days later, another headline in the Gray […]
April 26, 2024

Don’t be surprised: Columbia welcomed Nazi officials more than Jews in the 1930s

Nicholas Murray Butler in 1916. Credit: Bain/Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons. by Ben Cohen (JNS) — Ninety years ago, Nazis and their sympathizers were far more welcome on the Columbia University campus on Manhattan’s Upper West Side than were […]
April 26, 2024

Archaeology, Passover and the Truth of Zionism

Four 1,900-year-old Roman swords found during an archaeological dig in the Judean Desert on display during a press conference at the Israel Antiquity Institute in Jerusalem, on Sept. 6, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90. by Moshe Phillips Israeli archaeologists in […]
April 25, 2024

IAEA: Tehran could build nuke in weeks, not months

Centrifuges at the Iran nuclear energy exhibition in the Islamic Revolution and Holy Defense Museum in Tehran, 2018. Credit: Maps/Shutterstock. (JNS) — Iran could make a dash for the bomb in a matter of weeks, the head of the U.N. […]
April 25, 2024

Why “pro-Palestinian” campus mobs consider Jew-hatred a progressive value

Pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas supporters set up a protest encampment on the campus of Columbia University in New York, as seen on April 22, 2024. Credit: Lev Radin/Shutterstock. by Jonathan Tobin (JNS) — Ideas that reduce complex problems into simple mantras […]
April 22, 2024

Anti-Israel activism evidence of educational rot at University of Michigan

Sports fans exit Michigan Stadium after a University of Michigan football game on Sept. 4, 2021. Credit: Chad Robertson Media/Shutterstock. by Marc Shapiro (JNS) — With all the anti-Israel and antisemitic chaos at American universities, some may be surprised that […]
April 22, 2024

U.S. looking at sanctions against Israel Defense Forces battalion

Israel Defense Forces soldiers of the Netzach Yehuda Battalion patrol near the Gaza border, Oct. 20, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90. (JNS) — The Israel Defense Forces is not aware of possible U.S. sanctions against its Netzach Yehuda Infantry Battalion […]
April 22, 2024

Satellite images show result of Israel’s reported strike on Iran

An F-15 fighter jet is seen at an unidentified airbase after successfully protecting Israel’s airspace from an Iranian attack, April 14, 2024. Credit: IDF. (JNS) — Satellite images published over the past 24 hours show damage to an air base […]
April 22, 2024

White House shocked by extent of Iran’s attack on Israel

Israeli interceptors fired to stop Iranian missiles fired at Israel appear above the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem on April 14, 2024. The nearby Al-Aqsa mosque is the third holiest site in Islam. Source: X. (JNS) — The White […]