Israel

(Left to right) Students Eli Shmidman, Noa Fay, Yoni Kurtz and Jessie Brenner speak at a press conference at Columbia University on Oct. 30, 2023.

After string of antisemitic and anti-Israel incidents, Columbia U students want the school to condemn Hamas

The students said the school’s administration did not take sufficient action after receiving reports of antisemitism, and has not held perpetrators accountable.

Protesters disrupt Blinken as he asks Senate for emergency wartime funding for Israel

The committee chairwoman asked the Capitol police to remove protesters from the room at least six times.

Israel’s UN envoy says he’ll wear Nazi yellow star until other countries condemn Hamas

Not everyone within Israel was on board with Gilad Erdan’s display.

Feds charge Las Vegas man with making antisemitic death threats against Sen. Jacky Rosen

Messages on the side of a building at night

Biden officials set a 2-week deadline for a plan to combat spike in campus antisemitism

With young adults off to war, Israeli teens are stepping up in their communities

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a press conference on October 28, 2023. (Dana Kopel/Pool)

Netanyahu rejects calls for ceasefire and resignation as he calls war against Hamas ‘battle of civilization against barbarians’

Israeli forces rescue kidnapped soldier, the first since Oct. 7

Artforum staff resign in protest after editor fired over publication of anti-Israel open letter

‘Jews not allowed’: As Erdogan praises Hamas, antisemitism rises on the ground in Turkey

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