Middle East experts offer options for U.S. intervention in Iran

Trump says U.S. will strike Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain ‘pretty soon’

President Donald Trump warned on Tuesday that the U.S. would “pretty soon” strike Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain, the underground facility suspected of housing components of Tehran’s nuclear program. The president made the comments from the Oval Office while welcoming Lebanese President Joseph Aoun for a meeting about the ongoing U.S.-led talks between Israel and Lebanon. Trump... <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2026/07/trump-iran-strike-pickaxe-mountain-lebanon-joseph-aoun/lebanon-president-heads-to-washington-for-white-house-talks/">Read More</a>

House Democrats urge Rubio to pressure Malaysia to reverse plan to deport Israelis

A group of House Democrats urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday to pressure Malaysia to walk back plans to deport Israeli citizens by leveraging U.S. military assistance to the Southeast Asian nation. Malaysia’s prime minister said last week that the country, which does not recognize Israel and does not permit Israeli passport holders... <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2020/02/warren-says-u-s-embassy-should-be-in-israeli-capital-after-negotiations/">Read More</a>

College Democrats’ Jewish Caucus condemns the group’s hosting of Hasan Piker

The College Democrats of America’s decision to platform far-left, antisemitic influencer Hasan Piker at its recent conference was “a direct threat to Jewish safety and inclusion,” the group’s Jewish Caucus said on Tuesday.  Piker, who has a long-standing history of antisemitic rhetoric — including justifying Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks, calling Orthodox Jews “inbred” and asserting that America deserved 9/11 — was announced on Friday as the convention’s “surprise speaker,” just hours before it began. CDA is the official collegiate arm and student outreach branch of the Democratic National Committee In his speech on Saturday, Piker distanced himself from the... <a href="">Read More</a>

Mamdani’s arrested development

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Washington state’s Jewish Democrats fight for a place in a party they no longer recognize

SEATTLE — David Kaplan has been attending Washington state Democratic conventions since he was 6 years old.&nbsp; He was brought to his first convention in 1960 by his mother, who was, as Kaplan put it, a “Warren Magnuson Democrat,” while his father was a “Henry Jackson Democrat.” The two legendary former Washington senators who served... <a href="">Read More</a>