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Days after a group of young men attacked a University of Michigan student after overhearing him say he was Jewish, most of the state's top elected officials have yet to utter a word on the brazen anti-Semitic act.Just two of Michigan's congressional representatives—Reps. Haley Stevens (D.) and Tim Walberg (R.)—had addressed the Sunday incident, which occurred just a block from the university's Jewish Resource Center, by Tuesday morning. Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer (D.), Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D.), and Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D.), Elissa Slotkin (D.), Hillary Scholten (D.), Bill Huizenga (R.), and Debbie Dingell (D.) have not addressed it and...

Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz criticized the Democrat Party for having hosted the “most anti-Jewish, anti-Israel, anti-Zionist convention” in August, adding that he was “no longer a Democrat.” During an interview with radio host Zev Brenner, Dershowitz spoke about how the Democrat Party had “more anti-Jewish, anti-Zionist” speakers, such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) at its convention in Chicago.

The Democratic vice presidential candidate failed to mention Hamas or the six murdered hostages in his response to a local radio stationMinnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, told a Michigan NPR affiliate on Thursday that anti-Israel protesters in Michigan “are speaking out for all the right reasons.” “I think those folks who are speaking out loudly in Michigan are speaking out for all the right reasons. It’s a humanitarian crisis. It can’t stand the way it is, and we need to find a way that people can live together in this,” Walz said in an interview...

Speakers and delegates at this year’s Democratic National Convention chastised Pro-Life laws and swore to make the United States one of the most pro-abortion countries on planet earth. Abortion was celebrated more than ever, and that was evident by the speakers chosen for the event. When it came time for the Texas delegation to cast their votes, former Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards, a native Texan, took the mic to introduce Kate Cox to speak. Cox, who Richards called a “Texas heroine,” garnered national media attention in December when she sued the state to abort her preborn child diagnosed with...

Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) announced he would boycott Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “wildly inappropriate” joint address to Congress on Wednesday, insisting he would rather serve the Israeli leader an arrest warrant for war crimes on the House floor. In a press release published shortly before the long-awaited congressional address, Pocan declared he would not attend the event, citing Netanyahu’s “deadly and excessive response” to Hamas’s unprecedented, unprovoked, and brutal October 7, 2023, attack, the deadliest against Jewish people since the Nazi Holocaust.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday denounced recent remarks by former President Trump about Jewish Americans who vote Democratic as “reprehensible and dangerous,” and argued they are a clear example of “unadulterated antisemitism.” Trump said in an interview that aired Monday that Democrats “hate Israel” and that Jewish voters who support Democrats hate their religion. The comments came in response to Schumer’s call late last week for new elections in Israel and heightened criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in U.S. history, responded in kind on Tuesday.

Donald Trump’s rhetoric dropped to a spine-tingling new low this weekend with less than a month before the Iowa caucuses.The GOP primary front-runner said migrants are “poisoning the blood” of the US and quoted Russian President Vladimir Putin about the “rottenness” of American democracy.Whipping up thousands of supporters at a New Hampshire hockey rink on Saturday, the former president again drew comparisons to the language of Nazi Germany with the comments about migrants from mostly Africa, Asia and South America “poisoning the blood of our country.”The language “parrots Adolf Hitler,” President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign alleged. Experts pointed to passages...

MSNBC anchor Jen Psaki said Thursday on “Deadline” that former President Donald Trump was “echoing” Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. After former Trump administration DHS official Miles Taylor said America is “zombie-walking towards” tyranny, Psaki said, “I mean we are zombie-walking as Donald Trump is also echoing Hitler. He is screaming, I want to be authoritarian dictator and people are still zombie-walking. That is a great term.”

Boston’s Democrat Mayor Michelle Wu is facing criticism for compiling a list of her ctitics and handing it over to the police. You know, for all of the Democrats’ talk about authoritarians and fascism, they sure seem to like using those concepts as political tactics. It’s all projection, of course. FOX News reports: Boston mayor Michelle Wu under fire after sending list of critics and protesters to police Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, a Democrat, is facing criticism for “Nixonian tactics” after her administration admitted to creating a list of her most vocal critics and providing it to local authorities. “The...

<p>WASHINGTON - The only Library of Congress branch in the U.S. Capitol - which has helped lawmakers for generations - is shutting down to provide the new House Democratic leader with space for her interns, officials said yesterday.</p> <p>The abrupt closing of the congressional reading room and branch library has caught lawmakers and other patrons off guard, and even the two librarians who staff the small reading room are still getting used to the news.</p>