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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi addresses a Hamas solidarity rally in Tehran. Photo: Reuters/Sobhan Farajvan Iran’s president will attend an emergency summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh on Sunday, in another sign of the rapprochement between the two rival Gulf states amid renewed conflict between Israel and…

Anti-Israel students protest at Columbia University in New York City. Photo: Reuters/Jeenah Moon Columbia University in New York City has suspended Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) as official student groups on campus through the end of the fall semester. Gerald Rosberg, senior executive vice president of the university, made the bombshell announcement…

Arthur Szyk. Tears of Rage. New York, 1942 Arthur Szyk. Action-Not Pity, New York Times, February 8, 1943 Source: Irvin Ungar Arthur Szyk. Tears of Rage, New York Times, December 7, 1942 Arthur Szyk. We Will Never Die. Official program journal cover. Madison Square Garden, New York, March 9, 1943 Both the soldier and the…

Pro-Hamas and anti-Israel activists march to the White House and demand a cease-fire in Gaza. Photo: Allison Bailey/NurPhoto via Reuters Connect Jewish and Israeli students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have warned in a new letter to university president Sally Kornbluth that radical anti-Zionism and intimidation of Jewish students on campus has become…

An image from “Family at the Seder,” from the 1935 Haggadah by artist Arthur Szyk (b. 1894, Lodz, Poland—d. 1951, New Canaan, CT). Photo: Courtesy of Irvin Ungar The work of Polish-Jewish painter Arthur Szyk, a miniaturist who savaged Nazis and championed values of human dignity through his lavishly detailed works, is having its largest…

France’s President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during a tribute ceremony at the Halle aux Grains in Toulouse, southern France, on March 20, 2022. Photo: Ludovic Marin/Pool via REUTERS i24 News – Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to French President Emmanuel Macron’s comment on Israel killing civilians in Gaza. Israel’s PM stated that: “It…

Heads of states stand for family photo during Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November, 11, 2023. Photo: Saudi Press Agency/Handout via REUTERS Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries called on Saturday for an immediate end to military operations in Gaza, rejecting Israel’s justification of its actions as self-defense. The extraordinary…

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi addresses a Hamas solidarity rally in Tehran. Photo: Reuters/Sobhan Farajvan i24 News – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Saturday said that the time had come for action over the conflict in Gaza rather than talk as he headed to Saudi Arabia to attend a summit on the war between Israel and…

Marine Le Pen, leader of the far right National Rally (RN) in France, lays a wreath at the monument to the Jewish victims of the Warsaw Ghetto. Photo: Attila Husejnow /SOPA Images/Reuters i24 News – French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has set off a cacophony of criticism over her plans to attend a weekend…

Flags of United Arab Emirates and Israel flutter during Israel’s National Day ceremony at Expo 2020 Dubai, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, January 31, 2022. Photo: REUTERS/Christopher Pike The United Arab Emirates plans to maintain diplomatic ties with Israel despite international outcry over the mounting toll of the war in Gaza and hopes to have…