Democratic Party leaders scrambled Monday to limit the continuing political damage from ongoing antisemitic remarks by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), after the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called on the party to take action.
Students at Syracuse University can intern with the Syracuse Peace Council, an anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) group, to earn credits that can count toward a degree at the university.
Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), both facing accusations of antisemitism, have found support from IfNotNow, a radical left-wing anti-Israel organization on the fringe of the Jewish community.
Jewish leaders in Minnesota said they had spoken to Ilhan Omar about her views last year — and she had failed to learn anything.
President Trump on Ilhan Omar: “I think she should be ashamed of herself. I think it was a terrible statement and I don’t think her apology was adequate.”
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), America’s oldest pro-Israel group, issued a statement Monday morning denouncing the antisemitic statements of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and calling for her to be removed from her committee assignments in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Dan Shapiro, who served as President Barack Obama’s ambassador to Israel from 2011 to 2017, called on fellow Democrats to denounce the anti-Israel and antisemitic views of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Monday morning.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) launched a new antisemitic volley on Twitter, using an offensive Jewish stereotype that even fellow critics of Israel found abhorrent.
Six of the seven Democratic Party presidential candidates in the U.S. Senate voted against a pro-Israel bill this week that would make it easier for states to oppose the “boycott, divestment, sanctions” (BDS) movement.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) took to Twitter Tuesday afternoon to deny that she and fellow first-term Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) are antisemites.
First-term Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) struggled to explain Tuesday what she had learned about antisemitism recently, dodging a question at an event at the left-wing Center for American Progress (CAP) think tank in Washington, D.C.
TEL AVIV — Amnesty International, a British-based NGO that has received financing from billionaire activist George Soros, has advocated the boycott of tourism in West Bank Israeli communities as well as eastern Jerusalem.
CNN’s John Berman interviewed Minnesota Representative-elect Ilhan Omar Tuesday, touching on a number of topics, but not once asking about her past anti-Israel rhetoric. Ilhan Omar was lobbed softball questions by CNN’s Berman about a possible government shutdown, impeaching President Trump,
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), the likely next Speaker of the House, is trying to reassure Jewish groups after several newly-elected Democrats have vowed openly to support “boycott, divestment, and sanctions” (BDS) against Israel.
CNN Contributor Marc Lamont Hill told the United Nations on Wednesday that Israel should be replaced by a Palestinian state, and defended the Palestinian use of violence against Israel.
Democrat Rashida Tlaib danced wearing the Palestinian flag at a victory party in Tuesday evening, after she won a largely uncontested race for the open seat in Michigan’s heavily Democratic 13th congressional district.
The era of bipartisan support for Israel is over. Support for Israel is now a Republican issue — and opposition to Israel is a Democratic issue.
Iran held its annual “Death to America” rally on Sunday to commemorate the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in 1979, leading to a 444-day hostage crisis in which the Iranian regime held 52 Americans prisoner.
Jewish Democratic lawmakers in Congress may serve not as Israel’s defenders in their party, but as fig leaves that hide and whitewash the growing hostility of their party and its voters towards the Jewish state and its supporters in the United States.
It was entirely appropriate and well warranted for Israel to refuse entry to Lara Alqasem, who led boycott campaigns against Israel in the U.S.
LILLE (FRANCE) – About 200 police raided the headquarters in northern France of a Shiite Islamic association and the homes of its leaders who are suspected of supporting “terrorist organisations”, security sources said.
Posters calling Israel a “racist endeavour” have sprung up at bus stops across the capital, with the claim widely perceived as anti-Semitic, infuriating some Londoners.
Democrats will elect several new representatives to Congress in November who hold staunchly anti-Israel views. That will happen whether or not Democrats win overall.
Democrat Rashida Tlaib, winner of her party’s primary in Michigan’s 13th congressional district, celebrated her win last week with a series of anti-Israel tweets.
Reviewers called Geraldo Rivera’s first memoir, Exposing Myself, “gross” and “a horndog’s Bible of workplace harassment,” noting that “[Geraldo] grabs Bette Midler’s boobs, beds every conceivable underling.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old democratic socialist who became an instant Democratic Party heroine by unseating party caucus chair Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY) in Tuesday’s New York primary, is an anti-Israel radical.
TEL AVIV – New York University expressed that it was against the boycott of particular student groups after 51 campus organizations pledged to boycott pro-Israel groups.
Michael Steinhardt, the co-founder and major supporter of Birthright Israel—a program that has brought more than 600,000 Jewish young adults from around the world to Israel for free 10-day heritage trips—gave the middle finger to a group of anti-Israel, anti-Birthright activists outside a gala Birthright celebration on April 15.
Student protesters at Columbia University allegedly put on an anti-Israel demonstration right next to a Holocaust Remembrance Day event.
On Monday, a major American Jewish leader, Ronald Lauder, published a call to arms against Israel in the New York Times.
Former Pink Floyd singer Roger Waters has joined Palestinian performers Trio Joubran to record a song attacking Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the U.S. embasssy from Tel Aviv accordingly.
A U.S. counter-terrorism specialist has accused Hezbollah of “engaging in criminal conduct on British soil”, as the British government debates banning outright the Lebanese militant group.
TEL AVIV – More than 100 artists penned an open letter published in the UK’s Guardian newspaper Friday in support of New Zealand pop singer Lorde, who succumbed to pressure from anti-Israel activists and cancelled her scheduled performance in the Jewish state.
It’s so sad to see a pop star like Lorde going over to the dark side of bigotry and antisemitism at such a young age.
TEL AVIV – Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan on Monday requested that NGOs in support of anti-Israel boycotts no longer receive eligibility for volunteers from Israel’s national service program.
TEL AVIV – The editors of the University of California’s student newspaper issued an apology and retraction for publishing a Nazi-themed cartoon last week.
TEL AVIV – The University of California Berkeley’s student newspaper has drawn ire for publishing a cartoon featuring an anti-Semitic caricature of former Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz using Nazi-era imagery.
A group of scholars affiliated with UNESCO criticized the agency for recent one-sided resolutions on Jerusalem, calling for a new approach to sensitive holy sites that takes into consideration everyone’s religious sensitivities.
JERUSALEM – Israel on Monday denounced a decision by the organisers of a major judo tournament in Abu Dhabi preventing its team from wearing national emblems and the playing of their national anthem.
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against the state of Kansas for a law that punishes people who boycott Israel, the organization announced last week.
