Politics

Israel’s Supreme Court upholds law declaring Israel nation-state of the Jewish people

Opponents of the law say it damages Israel’s democratic character by degrading the rights of its Arab minority, while its defenders say it states the obvious — that Israel is a Jewish state.

A rally against antisemitism hopes to present a united front, but its message on Israel has driven away some left-wing groups

Disagreement about whether to make defending Israel a feature of a rally against antisemitism signals how fraught an issue Israel has become in the American Jewish community.

Rep. Lauren Boebert says Biden’s COVID vaccine staff are ‘Needle Nazis’

Boebert’s tweet comes two days after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, another first-term Republican, tweeted that canvassers doing vaccine outreach are “medical brown shirts,” a reference to a Nazi Party militia.