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Ritchie Torres, Mike Lawler introduce bill that would allow feds to name antisemitism monitors to campuses

The lawmakers named the bill the COLUMBIA (College Oversight and Legal Updates Mandating Bias Investigations and Accountability) Act.

Source: Blinken hasn’t decided whether to sanction Israel for alleged abuses by one of its army units

There has been a determination that Israeli forces committed gross human rights abuses, but there is not yet any decision about whether to withhold funds.

Israeli police arrest author Ayelet Waldman and 6 others in Gaza border protest

Waldman’s husband, the author Michael Chabon, drew attention to her arrest from their home in California.

United States

In a first, Massachusetts lawmakers delay budget fight to accommodate Passover observance

New York

Seeking out sites from the bygone Borscht Belt? New historical markers lay out a path.

A police officer on horseback confronts pro-Palestinian protesters

United States

Hundreds of students arrested from Texas to California as college Israel protests continue

United States

Former employee used AI to frame Baltimore school principal as antisemitic and racist, police say

Politics

US and 17 other countries with hostages in Gaza call for their release in exchange for a ceasefire

United States

Brandeis extends transfer deadline, appealing to Jewish students distressed by campus anti-Israel unrest

Israel

American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin is seen alive in apparently recent video released by Hamas

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