Syria’s new textbooks demonize Jews, report finds

Jacob Frey, Betty McCollum join Minnesota Dem chorus condemning Piker event

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) and Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon on Wednesday joined the chorus of Democrats speaking out against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and state Sen. Omar Fateh’s planned event in Minneapolis with Hasan Piker, set to take place next week. “We shouldn’t only condemn bigotry when it’s politically... <a href="">Read More</a>

Lander endorses settlement sanctions bill while on West Bank trip

New York Democratic congressional nominee Brad Lander announced on a Zoom call with reporters on Wednesday that he would sign on to a new bill to impose sanctions on Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Speaking from a hotel in Beit Jala in the West Bank, where the Democrat traveled in a heavily promoted junket to participate in the local olive harvest, Lander told journalists that he had decided that, once he joins the next Congress, he would sign onto the Stop the Settlements Act, which Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) introduced last month.&nbsp; The legislation would impose sanctions on anyone involved... <a href="">Read More</a>

Syrian textbooks under al-Sharaa deny Israel's right to exist and promote antisemitism, report finds

Syria’s national school curriculum under President Ahmed al-Sharaa promotes antisemitic depictions of Jews, denies Israel’s right to exist and glorifies violent struggle against the Jewish state, despite the Syrian leader positioning himself as a pragmatic statesman with no hostility toward Jerusalem, according to a new review of the country’s textbooks following the fall of former... <a href="">Read More</a>

AIPAC to end candidate endorsements, PAC contributions to allies

AIPAC announced on Wednesday that, after three cycles of direct political involvement through its political action committee AIPAC PAC, it will no longer issue endorsements or directly earmark contributions to candidates, but said it will remain involved in political organizing and fundraising in other ways, including with its influential super PAC. The decision is a... <a href="">Read More</a>

House Education Committee finds systemic antisemitism in Philadelphia, Berkeley K-12 schools

A House Education & Workforce Committee investigation of K-12 schools found widespread issues with antisemitism and anti-Israel advocacy in school curricula in the Philadelphia and Berkeley school districts. It also found that the National Education Association, the country’s largest teachers’ union, had funded purveyors of antisemitism. The committee report described the issues in the two... <a href="">Read More</a>