Summer reading list: Thought-provoking essays on Jews, the Israel-Hamas War, and Iran

Majority of Americans call 2025 attacks toward Jewish people 'morally wrong,' survey says

Nearly one in four Americans considered three recent violent incidents against Jewish Americans understandable, according to a new report on the alarming rise of antisemitic viewpoints in the U.S. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) published a new...

Qatari money is quietly fuelling anti-Israel rhetoric in Canada, new report warns

While envoys from Israel and Hamas met this week in Qatar to negotiate the latest peace effort for the release of the hostages and a ceasefire in Gaza, a new report warns that Canada should pay closer attention to the millions of dollars in...

DNC Chair Makes the Position Clear: The Dems Won't Condemn Those Who Want to Kill Jews

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), also known as Temu Obama, is an ineffective leader. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has a better institutional grasp, but he’s been hated more than ever for caving on the government shutdown circus last spring. There is no...

Israel and Palestinian Blood in Gaza: A Relentless Chain of Crimes and Massacres

[Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:03:27 +0300] Sanaa – SABA : From Iron Swords and Judgment Day to Generals’ Plan and Gideon’s Chariots, and now the newly launched operation “Upright Lion”, Israel continues its unrelenting campaign of genocide, starvation, and...

Himalayan village to Forbes billionaire: Indian-origin among America’s richest immigrants

India has surpassed Israel to top Forbes 2025 list of foreign-born billionaires in the United States, with 12 Indian-origin individuals making the cut. Among the most prominent names is cybersecurity entrepreneur Jay Chaudhry, who ranks 8th on the...

Israeli forces kill Palestinian man, run over body in West Bank

Israeli raids in the West Bank killed a Palestinian man as settlers violence continued [Getty] Israeli forces killed a 55-year-old Palestinian man during a West Bank military raid on the town of Rummanah, west of Jenin, in the early hours of...

Two 14-year-olds arrested over vandalism at Muslim cemetery near Jerusalem’s Old City

Two youths were arrested on Thursday for vandalizing tombstones and graves at a cemetery near Jerusalem’s Old City, Israel Police said in a statement. The graveyard vandalized was the Muslim al-Yusufiyah cemetery, located near Lion’s Gate of the...

Grok AI chatbot explains why it is ‘consulting’ Elon Musk for Israel-Palestine, abortion, immigration and everything ‘controversial’

Grok 4 has been caught repeatedly consulting Elon Musk's X posts when answering controversial questions about immigration, abortion, and the Israel-Palestine conflict. When asked directly why it mirrors its creator's communication style, xAI's...

Freed from ICE detention, Palestinian activist files $20m claim against Trump administration

NEW YORK (AP): On a recent afternoon, Mahmoud Khalil sat in his Manhattan apartment, cradling his 10-week-old son as he thought back to the pre-dawn hours spent pacing a frigid immigration jail in Louisiana, awaiting news of the child’s birth in...

Irán expulsa a medio millón de afganos en 16 días desde el reciente conflicto con Israel, dice la ONU

Por Nick Paton Walsh, Masoud Popalzai y Sarah El-Sirgany, CNN Más de medio millón de afganos han sido expulsados ​​de Irán en los 16 días transcurridos desde que terminó el conflicto con Israel, según Naciones Unidas, en lo que puede ser uno de...

Arnold Zulman: The industrialist who transformed lives through education and philanthropy

Tamara Cohen|Published 1 hour ago 4min OBITUARY, Arnold N. Zulman, December 17, 1932 – June 1, 2025 With the passing of Arnold Zulman, the world has lost an industrialist, philanthropist, and impactful community leader. He lived an expansive life...

Jerusalem tenants worried they'll lose homes 

The battle centers on 571 dunams (141 acres) in Jerusalem’s central neighborhoods, encompassing 1,000 apartments and hotels. Leased by the KKL-JNF from the Greek Orthodox Church in the 1950s for 99 years, the land is set to revert to the church in...

Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Man in Occupied West Bank Crackdown

More than 50 Palestinians were seized during coordinated Israeli military raids in Nablus, Qalqilya, Tubas, Al-Khalil (Hebron), Jenin, Bethlehem and Ramallah, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office (ASRA). ASRA reported that...

Israel suspends left-wing MK Ofer Cassif over Gaza war criticism

Ofer Cassif has been suspended several times from the Knesset over his criticism of Israel's war on Gaza [AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images] Israel's Knesset has suspended a pro-Palestine lawmaker for two months and is preparing to vote on...

The escalation of tension between Israel and Iran

This week, it is impossible to ignore the news and discuss any topic other than the conflict in the Middle East. The escalation between Israel and Iran has reached previously unimaginable levels, and the unexpected involvement of the United...

Israel arrests 50 across occupied West Bank; Jenin displaced return briefly

More than 50 Palestinians have been arrested in Israeli military raids across the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office (ASRA) says, as the army’s deadly assault on the territory, in tandem with its punishing war on Gaza,...

More government, media criticism of Israel needed

Sovereignty at risk The US seems to be taking us for mugs over AUKUS, and perhaps we are. The arrangement made by the Morrison government with the Biden administration and the UK government under Rishi Sunak saw Australia commit to spending...

‘I knew I would prevail’: Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil talks to CNN about his months in ICE detention

(CNN) — Detained for more than 100 days without charge, and with the threat of deportation looming over him, Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil was convinced he would eventually prevail. In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour,...

Faith in Action: How American Christians Can Stand with Israel Today

ANALYSIS A few weeks ago, as I was in New York, Facetiming with my three children in Israel – our family routine whenever sirens go off alerting people to rush to nearby bomb shelters – our worst fear came true. An Iranian missile struck our...