Top litigators gather in D.C. for antisemitism legal summit

Former Trump official Josh Gruenbaum says elite college presidents privately welcomed admin pressure

Josh Gruenbaum, a former Trump administration official who was involved in the federal government’s pressure campaign against universities over campus antisemitism, claimed in a new podcast interview that several prominent university presidents and trustees privately welcomed the administration’s approach as a way to push back against faculty resistance to institutional reforms. “I could think off... <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2025/04/jewish-leaders-claim-double-standard-with-harvard-antisemitism-islamophobia-reports/">Read More</a>

GOP senators skeptical of Vance’s post-election analysis blaming Israel, Iran war

Republican senators reacted skeptically to Vice President JD Vance’s assessment that the GOP’s midterm losses were a sign of voters’ desire for the party to end the war in Iran and rethink its relationship with Israel. Vance wrote last week that it was “obvious to almost everyone” that voters flipped to Democrats in the election... <a href="">Read More</a>

Unity, schmunity at the Knesset

This edition covers Knesset coalition tensions, Senate Democrats' push to limit U.S.-Israel defense cooperation, the opening of a Washington Lehrhaus, and various regional updates and diplomatic news.

Unity talk, scorched earth: Netanyahu’s Knesset speech blows up first Likud-Yashar meeting

One of the most popular songs in Israel in recent years claims that “he who believes does not fear.” Yet time and again, Israeli politicians walk a path where they both believe and fear. Tuesday’s swearing-in ceremony for the 26th Knesset was a case in point. On one side stood Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In... <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2026/11/van-hollen-leads-push-to-remove-u-s-israel-cooperation-provisions-from-defense-funding-bill/">Read More</a>

Top Senate Dem says ‘looking at all options’ to end Iran war ahead of December funding deadline

Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), the ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, told reporters on Tuesday that Democrats are “looking at all the options” for ending the war in Iran, when asked if Democrats might try to use the upcoming December government funding deadline to force an end to the war. Some of her fellow... <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2026/11/shapiro-blasts-antisemitic-bike-rally-targeting-philly-jewish-businesses/">Read More</a>