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Vast Majority of American Jews Believe Anti-Israel Campus Protests Are Anti-Semitic, Poll Finds, in Blow to JVP Findings show that the American Jewish community 'rejects the assertions of these Jewish anti-Zionist groups,' says Jonathan Schulman. The vast majority of American Jews believe the anti-Israel movements sweeping college campuses and U.S. cities are anti-Semitic, according to a new poll. The results stem from a survey conducted by Public Opinion Strategies and commissioned by the Jewish Majority, a public relations and research organization. They reflect a major divide between the Jewish-American community and anti-Israel groups that claim to represent Jews, such as...

Several dozen anti-Israel activists protested outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City on Christmas Day, continuing a practice in which they have targeted Christian symbols and the Christmas holiday over the last 15 months. Last year, activists chanted “Christmas is canceled” and rioted in New York. They also shut down a key highway in Chicago leading to O’Hare International Airport, and disrupted Christmas shopping in Memphis, Tennessee.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted the Labor government of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Friday, saying its anti-Israel policies had led directly to an arson attack on a synagogue in Melbourne. As Breitbart News reported, the synagogue was set ablaze during weekday prayers on Friday morning — with some worshippers inside the sanctuary. Breitbart News noted: Local media outlets confirmed people were inside at the time for morning prayers and they had reported seeing firebombs thrown by masked assailants. One person was injured and the fire caused extensive damage. Synagogue board member Benjamin Klein told The Age newspaper...

Retiring President Biden hit the shops on Black Friday and surprised onlookers by picking up a copy of a book describing the establishment of Israel as “colonialism” that’s been met with Palestinian “resistance” — an acquisition its author bemoaned was “4 years too late.” Biden, 82, left Nantucket Bookworks holding in full view of the press a copy of “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017” by Columbia University professor emeritus Rashid Khalidi. The book argues that “the modern history of Palestine can best be understood in these terms: as a colonial...

A line of keffiyeh-clad protesters silently walked out of a Columbia University Jewish center during an event featuring a well-known Israeli reporter while an anti-Israel mob demonstrated outside the building on Thursday night. Footage of the disruption showed about a dozen protesters with Palestinian headscarves walk out of the Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life while holding up signs as Axios journalist Barak Ravid spoke to students. An anti-Israel coalition, Columbia University Apartheid Divest, accused Ravid of being a “henchman of genocide” and slammed the Ivy League school’s leaders for allowing him to speak on campus in an online post....

Anti-Israel protesters flooded Senate building in illegal protest urging members to vote for arms sale blockIn the Biden-Harris administration’s eleventh hour, Senate Democrats are launching a campaign against the Jewish state aimed at drumming up support for blocking arms sales to Israel.Led by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), the congressional offensive consists of three Senate disapproval resolutions that call for an immediate pause in American arms sales to Israel and accuse the United States of supporting mass war crimes in the Gaza Strip. Sanders—along with Sens. Chris Van Hollen (D., Md.), Jeff Merkley (D., Ore.), Peter Welch (D., Vt.), and...

CNN anchor Dana Bash slammed an anti-Israel protester who confronted her at a synagogue this week. Bash was at the Main Line Reform Temple just outside of Philadelphia when a woman approached her, claiming to be a congregant, according to video of the incident posted to social media. The woman, later identified online as Liz, falsely accused Israel of “genocide” against the Palestinians and called Bash “a mouthpiece” for Israel.

Israeli and French fans got into a brief altercation during Thursday’s Nations League soccer game, which had heavy security presence following the antisemitic violence in Amsterdam this week. Just after the game kicked off at 8:45 p.m., local time, officials reported a small brawl between Israeli and French soccer fans at a top section of the Stade de France, in Saint-Denis. Some of those involved in the scuffle were wearing Israeli flags draped over their backs as they wrestled with other people in the stands.

On Oct. 1, the Biden-Harris administration awarded $60,000 to anti-Israel scholar Seth Anziska to write a book about "Palestinian self-determination." One day later, the University College London professor criticized the Jewish state for fighting Hamas, condemned Israel's assassination of Hezbollah's leader, and called U.S. officials "merchants of death."The National Endowment for the Humanities granted Anziska the taxpayer-funded award on Oct. 1 for his book project focused on the "1982 invasion of Lebanon by Israel," also known as the First Lebanon War. The conflict, according to the grant description, "influenced movements for Palestinian self-determination."The war began with the Palestine Liberation Organization...

Former security officials say increasingly violent rhetoric mimics that of 1960s students who pivoted to domestic terror. It’s going unhindered as students point to First Amendment NEW YORK — These days, Brian Cohen, the executive director of the Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life at Columbia University, spends more time than he would like explaining the meaning behind social media posts to campus administrators — from one featuring an infamous photograph of a man holding up his bloody hands during the Ramallah lynching in 2000, to others highlighting the inverted red triangle used by the Hamas terror group to paint...

The U.S., Israel, and the world are “better” and “safer” without Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, according to Israeli Knesset Member Simcha Rothman who criticized the Biden-Harris administration for delaying Israel’s entry into Rafah, arguing that if the terror chief had been eliminated five months earlier the suffering in Gaza could have been reduced and hostages might already be home, as he urged for a greater respect toward Israel’s strategy. In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Thursday, Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee Chairman Simcha Rothman of Israel’s Religious Zionist party hailed the death of Yahya Sinwar, the October...

Terrorists murdered over 1,000 people and got over $1 billion. Oct 7 marked the grim anniversary of the worst massacre of Jews since Holocaust. The terrorist perpetrators of it however could celebrate the over $1 billion in foreign aid from the U.S.46 Americans had been murdered on Oct 7 and another 12 taken hostage, but ahead of the Oct 7 anniversary, USAID announced that it was sending another $336 million in taxpayer-funded ‘aid’ to the terrorist occupied territories in Israel behind the killings of Americans.USAID boasted that this “brings the total U.S. humanitarian assistance announced for the Palestinian people to...

Anti-Israel activists took over a building at Stanford University and thoroughly vandalized it before being arrested on Wednesday.The protesters are facing felony charges, and seniors in the group will not be allowed to graduate.Thirteen anti-Israel protesters who invaded and occupied Stanford University’s president’s office were charged with felonies by the school, with some being forbidden from graduating as a result. On Wednesday, the protesters forcefully entered the building that serves as the office of Stanford’s president and provost. The activists, who included 11 current students, left graffiti throughout the Main Quad before barricading themselves in the office building, such as...

Vice President Kamala Harris issued a statement Monday in commemoration of the October 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel, expressing sympathy for the victims but adding that she would “always fight for the Palestinian people.” Harris’s message continues a pattern of equivocation by the Biden administration — showing solidarity with Israel against terrorism, but also showing solidarity with the Palestinian cause in whose name the terror was committed. While describing the October 7 attack in graphic terms, and calling for the release of the remaining hostages, Harris also added that she was “heartbroken over the scale of death and destruction...

A protester who works in the media lit himself on fire outside of the White House during an anti-Israel protest on Saturday evening, disturbing video shows. The man, identified as photojournalist Samuel Mena Jr, can be seen screaming in pain after he set his left arm ablaze in the middle of the street as shocked police officers and bystanders rush over to help, according to one clip. Mena holds his left arm — engulfed in flames — high in the air to show others as several people quickly douse him with water and beat out the flames with pieces of...

The city is bracing for widespread anti-Israel protests planned for the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack. Protests are already expected on Saturday, in the lead up to the anniversary of the devastating terror attack, with events organized for Times Square, outside Google’s Manhattan headquarters and at Court Square Park in Queens. Many anti-Israel groups are planning demonstrations for Monday, in particular, the National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP), which is orchestrating a nationwide “Week of Rage” on college campuses beginning on Oct. 7. Meanwhile, one of the most outspoken anti-Israel organizations “Within Our Lifetime” (WOL) called...

Google artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini displayed its disdain for the Jewish nation of Israel even as it is in the thick of a war on multiple fronts, further revealing that it’s not just Google Search, but even the platform’s AI that is skewed sharply to the left. Gemini ran cover for Hezbollah by refusing to directly define what the organization is and even went as far as providing reasons why Hezbollah could be viewed positively. No, you’re not misreading that.

Mia Khalifa, who has been an outspoken critic of the Biden administration's handling of the Israel-Hamas conflict, said she despised the U.S. government during an interview with British-American broadcaster Louis Theroux. The model and influencer made the comments on an episode of Theroux's podcast released on Tuesday, in which she described America as the "country of capitalism, it's the American dream, there's no limit to what you can accomplish there," but added, "I despise the American government, and the infrastructure of America and everything that it stands for." Khalifa said she understood the appeal of "the American dream" but "it's...

Anti-Israel protesters menacingly chanted “We’re gonna get you” outside of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Big Apple hotel Thursday night, a day before he’s expected to speak at the United Nations. The rowdy demonstrators swarmed the outside of the Loews Regency New York Hotel on Park Ave. and E. 62nd St. where they said Netanyahu is staying, according to images and social media videos. “Netanyahu,” the hundreds of protesters repeatedly shouted, according to footage posted by anti-Israel group Within Our Lifetime. “We’re gonna get you.” The prime minister arrived in town Thursday ahead of his address in front of the...

Dozens of speakers at the Doha event are anti-Israel advocatesThe head of an Israel-designated terrorist organization, a former Hamas official, and Hamas apologists are among the dozens of anti-Israel advocates scheduled to speak at a Georgetown University conference in Qatar running Friday through Sunday, a Washington Free Beacon review has found.The speakers at the "Reimagining Palestine" event will discuss the "ideological shifts" of Zionism, "art as resistance," and "anti-colonial struggles," and will engage in "dialogue that challenges the status quo," according to the Doha event’s website. Among the nearly 70 scholars is Shawan Jabarin, a former senior member of the...