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Will Trump’s new cabinet be good for Israel?

Marco Rubio, Elise Stefanik and Lee Zeldin are good early signs for Israel supporters

By Melissa Langsam Braunstein

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President Donald Trump watches as Marco Rubio (R-FL) speaks during a campaign rally (Getty)

Students protest as they walk out from the George Washington University (GWU) commencement ceremony (Getty Images)

House report finds that universities made ‘shocking concessions’ to hate

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President-elect Donald Trump after speaking during a campaign rally at Lancaster Airport on November 03, 2024 in Lititz, Pennsylvania (Getty Images)

Why Jews swung away from the Democrats

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TOPSHOT - US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (R) shakes hands with former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a presidential debate at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 2024. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Jewish ballot switchers could decide the presidential election on Tuesday

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The championing of Ta-Nehisi Coates exposes the media’s gross bias

This darling of the left is incurious, intellectually unimpressive and “contextualises” barbarism.

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October 15, 2024 08:37

Cancelling all Jews has become the latest obsession of Israel’s enemies in the US

Jews in the creative industries have been the target of intense protests

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October 10, 2024 11:18

BERLIN, GERMANY - JULY 28: Singer Matisyahu performs at the official opening ceremony of the European Maccabi Games at the Waldbuehne on July 28, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. Over 2,000 Jewish athletes from Maccabi clubs all over the world will compete for the next week in Berlin at the Olympiastadion where in 1936 Nazi Germany held the Olympics and excluded its own Jewish athletes. The Maccabi games take place every four years and first took place in Prague in 1929. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

October 7 brought Western Jews’ holiday from history to a hard stop

The past year has forced many American Jews to re-evaluate institutions and friends they thought they knew

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October 1, 2024 09:33

Students walk out from the George Washington University commencement ceremony on the National Mall on May 19 in Washington, DC (Getty Images)

The swing state where Democrats fear Gaza vote the most

Michigan is a crucial path to victory for both parties in the November presidential election

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September 25, 2024 08:17

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest in Dearborn, Michigan (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

This blatant discrimination against Jews is a red flag about the state of American society

Americans who were previously careful to claim they were “anti-Zionist, not antisemitic” have been emboldened since October 7

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September 18, 2024 10:30

Rally in Union Square, NYC on September 2, 2024 (Getty Images)

Trump and Vance won’t win Jewish votes by cosying up to Tucker Carlson

The Fox News host turned podcaster platforms Holocaust denial

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September 12, 2024 10:04

At long last, measures to help Jews feel safer on campus

There are signs that some universities are trying to make life better for Jewish students

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September 6, 2024 16:18

Claudine Gay, President of Harvard University, Liz Magill, President of University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Sally Kornbluth, President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, testify before a congressional a hearing to investigate antisemitism on college campuses (Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Will Kamala Harris’s vagueness on Israel be enough for America’s Jews?

The carefully curated presentations were refracted through the party’s studied silence about their Corbynism and its related, seismic shift on Israel

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August 23, 2024 14:04

Kamala Harris and Joe Biden on the opening day of the convention (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Columbia’s president has gone but antisemitism remains

Columbia has already tried ignoring the problem. Now, it’s time to try tackling it.

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August 22, 2024 18:40

The "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" in the West Lawn of Columbia University in New York City. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Tim Walz’s record on Israel and antisemitism is deeply concerning

Individual Jews may consider him a “mensch” in personal interactions, but his willingness to work with and promote the policy preferences of his party’s extremists is something American Jews cannot afford to overlook

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August 14, 2024 14:39

US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor and Democratics vice presidential candidate Tim Walz (Photo by RONDA CHURCHILL / AFP) (Photo by RONDA CHURCHILL/AFP via Getty Images)

Democrats used to embrace Jews – now they impose litmus tests

It’s tragic that the party has been Corbynised, and it’s ominous that it’s now led by a woman who has done nothing to stop it

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August 2, 2024 15:24

Josh Shapiro speaks during a "Harris for President" event (Photo by MATTHEW HATCHER/AFP via Getty Images)

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