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Maine Senate candidate comes under fire for Nazi-style tattoo
A Democrat running for the Senate in Maine is facing backlash after acknowledging that a black skull-and-crossbones tattoo on his chest resembles a Nazi symbol. Graham Platner, a 41-year-old Marine veteran and oyster farmer, confirmed the tattoo’s existence on Monday, in an effort to get ahead of rumors sparked by an opposition research group after…
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‘We Stand Together’: UK Professors Call Out Harassment of Jewish Colleague Who Served in IDF
Illustrative: London, Britain, Sept. 6, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Carlos Jasso Hundreds of professors on Tuesday signed a petition calling for the end of an antisemitic hate campaign aimed at driving a Jewish Israeli professor from his job at City St. George’s, University of London because he served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the 1980s.…
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Qatar, Turkey’s Expanding Roles in Gaza Could Strengthen Hamas Infrastructure, Experts Warn
Heavy machinery operates at a site where searches for deceased hostages kidnapped by Hamas during the Oct, 7, 2023, attack on Israel are underway amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Oct. 19, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ramadan Abed As the fragile ceasefire in Gaza appears to hold, experts are warning…
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Federal judge allows Northwestern to block enrollment for students who boycotted antisemitism training
A federal judge in Chicago allowed Northwestern University to discipline students who refused to watch an antisemitism training video. Judge Georgia Alexakis declined Monday to issue a restraining order in a lawsuit filed by Northwestern Graduate Workers for Palestine and two graduate students. The plaintiffs claimed that an antisemitism training required by the school for…
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Judge Denies CAIR’s Challenge to Campus Antisemitism Prevention Training
Pro-Hamas activists on the grounds of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, United States, on April 25, 2024. Photo: Kyle Mazza/NurPhoto via Reuters Connect A US federal judge on Monday rejected an anti-Israel group’s motion to pause an antisemitism prevention course being held at Northwestern University to prevent further harassment of and discrimination against Jewish students,…
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After three years in Israel, Reform convert told she can’t make aliyah
(JTA) — When Isabella Vinci stepped out of the mikvah on Nov. 11, 2021, she thought she had done everything that would be required to become Jewish. A beit din, or rabbinic court, had approved her conversion after nearly a year of study with Rabbi Andrue Kahn at Temple Emanu-El, a Reform congregation in New…
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JD Vance arrives in Israel as ceasefire totters: ‘We are in a very good place’
(JTA) — Vice President JD Vance arrived in Israel Tuesday, telling reporters that he felt “very optimistic” that the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel would hold despite Israel’s strikes over the weekend in Gaza following the deaths of two soldiers. “We are one week into President Trump’s historic peace plan in the Middle East, and…
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American Families Sue PA and PLO Over ‘Pay-for-Slay’ Program Funding Deadly Terrorist Attacks
Relatives and friends of Tzeela Gez, who was shot dead while in a car with her husband in the West Bank, as they were driving to hospital to give birth, mourn during her funeral in Jerusalem, May 15, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun Families of American victims of Palestinian terrorism filed a federal lawsuit in the…
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Pro-Hamas UK Doctor Arrested ‘For Inciting Racial Hatred’
Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan addresses the Activist Independent Movement’s Nakba77, Birmingham Demonstration for Palestine, outside the local BBC offices and studios in 2025. Photo: Screenshot London’s Metropolitan Police arrested a doctor in the UK who called for the ethnic cleaning of Jews and celebrated Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre across southern Israel Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan, 31,…
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Daniel Naroditsky, Jewish chess grandmaster and influential streamer, dies at 29
(JTA) — Daniel Naroditsky, a Jewish chess grandmaster and former child prodigy who became one of the game’s most popular voices through his streaming, commentary and teaching, has died at 29. Naroditsky’s death was announced Monday by the Charlotte Chess Center, a chess academy in North Carolina, where he worked as a head coach. Information…
