Politics

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.

United Teachers of Los Angeles 2019 strike

Teachers’ unions are increasingly debating Israel — and in some places are backing boycotts

The National Educational Association, the largest teachers’ union in the country, is the latest to attract outside attention for pro-Palestine advocacy.