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A coalition of US Jewish groups say they are leaving the social media platform X due to an increase in hateful content under the stewardship of owner Elon Musk. Fourteen groups say they are leaving the platform, including the Union for Reform Judaism, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, Keshet, Mazon, T’ruah, and the Workers Circle. “X has become a platform that promotes hate, antisemitism, and societal division,” the groups say in a joint statement. “Under the leadership of Elon Musk, X has reduced content moderation, promoted white supremacists, and re-platformed purveyors of conspiracy theories. Musk himself has re-posted content...

Two progressive Jewish organizations have issued responses to the ongoing fighting between Israel and Hamas, saying that an Israeli "apartheid" has caused the violence. Over the weekend, Hamas launched the deadliest Palestinian militant attack on Israel in history. Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) then launched a subsequent attack on the Gaza Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said his country is "at war" and has cut off supplies of food, fuel, electricity and medicine into Gaza. In a series of posts on X, formerly Twitter, the Jewish organization, If Not Now, who call themselves "a movement of American Jews organizing...

Counterterrorism efforts got a major boost last week when a U.S. district court found three Muslim organizations and one individual, mostly based in the Chicago area, guilty of funding Hamas and fined them an astonishing $156 million. The four were found liable for their roles in the murder of an American teenager, David Boim, on May 13, 1996, when he was shot by Hamas operatives as he waited for a bus near Jerusalem. This case is important in itself, providing some measure of justice and relief for the Boim family. Beyond that, it helps fight terrorism in four ways. First,...