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What We Saw at a Mostly Peaceful, Slightly Fiery Anti-Netanyahu Protest in DC
What began with a few “man on the street” interviews at a pro-Palestine rally quickly descended into a witness to violence, arson, and unmistakable vitriol against America and Israel. It all unfolded at a rally and march in protest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington on Wednesday to address a joint session… -
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Netanyahu Almost Drowned Out by Standing Ovations From Congress
“In the heart of the Middle East, standing in Iran’s way, is one proud, pro-American democracy—my country, the state of Israel!” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, visiting Washington amid the Israel-Hamas war, spoke these words Wednesday to enthusiastic applause during an address to a joint meeting of Congress that some Democrats boycotted. The Hamas terror… -
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Hundreds of Signs Readied as Anti-Israel Protesters Gather at Capitol for Netanyahu Visit
Hundreds of premade anti-Israel signs were waiting near the U.S. Capitol as demonstrators prepared Wednesday to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s latest visit to America. Netanyahu was scheduled to address a joint session of Congress at 2 p.m. EDT regarding U.S. efforts to help settle the 9-month-old Israel-Hamas war. Israel has sought to eradicate… -
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Lawmakers Fear Security Issues Around Netanyahu’s Congressional Address
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Some lawmakers are nervous that scores of pro-Palestinian protesters will swarm the Capitol out of retaliation for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s congressional address on Wednesday. Netanyahu will deliver an address to a joint session of Congress to speak on the importance of maintaining a strong U.S.-Israel relationship. But a number of lawmakers who spoke to… -
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Warning at RNC From Parents of American-Israeli Hostage: ‘Time Is Running Out’
MILWAUKEE—Ronen Neutra sat next to his wife Orna, a piece of tape on his dark blazer with the number 285 written in black marker—the number of days his son has been a Hamas hostage in the Gaza Strip. For nearly 300 days, Omer Neutra, an Israeli-American citizen, has likely not received the “basic humanitarian needs… -
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Conservative Group Goes After Investment Giant, Accusing It of Anti-Israel Bias
The conservative nonprofit Consumers’ Research launched a campaign on Tuesday going after investment firm Morgan Stanley Capital International for “embracing” an anti-Israel stance in its environmental, social, and corporate governance ratings. The Consumers’ Research six-figure ad campaign features a new website, a national mailer, digital marketing ads, and a mobile billboard outside of MSCI’s headquarters in… -
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Understanding the Israel-Palestine Conflict: Jeff Myers’ New Book Provides a Biblical Perspective
Long before Hamas’ horrific Oct. 7 attack on Israel, the Jewish homeland was already a flash point of controversy on college campuses and among an increasingly anti-Israel segment of younger Americans who make up Gen Z. Jeff Myers, president of Summit Ministries, had taken note of the troubling trend and embarked on a trip to… -
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Inside BDS Left’s Sneaky Targeting of Israel Via Corporate Boardrooms
Hours after Hamas-backed fighters broke out of the fence surrounding Gaza and embarked on a crusade of rape, killing, and kidnapping throughout southern Israel, some American corporate activists began their crusade to legitimize all of it. Notably among their ranks were advocates of the boycott, divest, and sanctions movement. “Oppression is the root cause of… -
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Omar Shrugs Off Harassment of Jewish Student, Faults UCLA for Not Protecting Anti-Israel Protesters
As three college presidents testified about antisemitism amid anti-Israel protests and riots on their campuses, a prominent House Democrat brushed off concerns about a Jewish student’s inability to walk on a path at the University of California at Los Angeles and went on to fault UCLA for not protecting anti-Israel protesters. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.,… -
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Northwestern U. May Have Broken Federal Law by Failing to Report Crimes During Anti-Israel Protests
Northwestern University may have violated a federal law by failing to report crimes on campus at least five times during recent anti-Israel protests. Northwestern appears to have violated a U.S. law called the Clery Act by not taking and publishing police reports from students who say they were assaulted, battered, stolen from, or witnessed crimes… -
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US Must Oppose International Criminal Court Bid to Prosecute Israeli Prime Minister, Defense Chief
For more than two decades, supporters of the International Criminal Court have urged the U.S. to ratify the Rome Statute and join the court. But multiple U.S. administrations of both parties refused, concerned that the ICC lacks safeguards against political manipulation and violates national sovereignty by claiming jurisdiction over the nationals and military personnel of… -
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‘They Don’t Understand War’: Analyst Slams Biden’s Denial of Arms to Israel
As stunned outrage escalated in reaction to President Joe Biden’s decision to halt arms shipments to Israel in the midst of its battle against the Hamas terrorist group, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Thursday that the Jewish state would “stand alone” and “fight with our fingernails” in the face of a lack of… -
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The Week in Israel News: The World’s Upside-Down Response to Oct. 7 Gets Even Worse
Welcome to 2024, the year where each week brings a new batch of fresh insanity, especially on Israel. While Donald Trump, the former president and presumptive Republican nominee in the upcoming presidential election, sits in the dock and unprecedented numbers of illegal aliens flood across our borders, elites are turning on Jews and demonizing Israel,… -
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10 Most Common Pro-Hamas Lies About Israel
Scan news accounts of anti-Israel campus and street protesters. Read their demands and manifestos. Collate the confusion from the Biden administration after Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorism in Israel. Here are 10 of their most common untruths about Oct. 7 and the Israel-Hamas war that followed. ‘Progressive Hamas’ Gay and transgender student protesters in America would… -
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Joe Biden Is Selling Out Israel to the Antisemitic Mob
Even as President Joe Biden was delivering his perfunctory Holocaust Remembrance speech earlier this week, decrying the “ferocious surge” in antisemitism on college campuses and prattling on about how he would never forget the Oct. 7 attack—which saw well over 1,200 Israelis murdered, raped, and/or kidnapped—the president was planning to stop the Jewish state from… -
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If You Can’t Tell the Bad Guy in Israel Vs. Hamas, You’re the Problem
The war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza strip is the most morally clear conflict in modern history. It pits an actual terrorist group that just engaged in the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust against a democratic country that protects citizens—Jewish, Muslim, and Christian. It pits a monstrously evil tentacle of Iran—handed… -
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Public School Psychologist Charged With Obstructing Traffic in Anti-Israel Protest
A psychologist for Indianapolis Public Schools was among those held when police arrested 14 masked adults who officers said were blocking traffic late last month just outside the Governor’s Residence in the state capital. The school psychologist, Karisa Cole, and the other arrested protesters were charged with obstructing traffic April 25 at 10:30 a.m. on… -
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Those Who Attack Israel ‘Are After the US Just the Same,’ Knesset Member Warns
Terrorists in the Middle East do not despise America only because the U.S. supports Israel, but because America is a Western society, according to Simcha Rothman, a member of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament. “But people that attack us, they are after the U.S. just the same,” Rothman says. “The chant in Iran—‘Death to America, Death… -
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Biden Is Harder on Israel Than on Campus Pro-Hamas Radicals, GOP Senators Say
President Joe Biden is harder on America’s allies than he is on pro-Hamas radicals on American college campuses, Senate Republicans said at a press conference on Wednesday. “Joe Biden is putting more pressure on Israel these days than he is on Hamas itself, or on the pro-Hamas chapters on America’s campuses,” Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said at the… -
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How Israel May Curb Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions
Details of Israel’s recent limited retaliatory strike against Iran‘s antiaircraft missile batteries at Isfahan are still sketchy. But nonetheless, we can draw some conclusions. Israel’s small volley of missiles hit their intended targets, to the point of zeroing in on the very launchers designed to stop such incoming ordnance. The target was near the Natanz…