The Trump administration has changed how the Department of Education handles allegations of discrimination against Jewish students, now using a broader definition of anti-Semitism that could potentially include any critique of the state of Israel—including campaigns that call attention to the Israeli government’s…
Thanks to the Trump administration’s penchant for unbridled cruelty, a major United Nations program aiding Palestinian refugees will no longer receive a penny of funding from the United States. This comes at a time when European and Arab countries are ramping up their support for the program.
While American and Israeli officials celebrate the opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem on Monday, Israeli military forces are massacring Palestinians protesting the widely condemned decision at the Gaza border. The death toll is rising so quickly that it will likely be outdated when you read this. As of 9:29 a.m.…
Ivanka and Jared, per Jared’s role as Innovations Officer and in Ivanka’s new official capacity as an Unpaid Employee, are off to oversee the Middle East.
Ahed Tamimi, a 17-year-old Palestinian girl who was arrested for hitting and kicking two Israeli police officers, accepted a plea deal in which she’ll serve eight months in prison.
Three teenage Lorde fans from Israel are suing two New Zealand women—in New Zealand—for “emotional injury” caused by their alleged role in Lorde’s decision to cancel her Tel Aviv concert.
Right in the midst of a global uproar over Donald Trump’s arbitrary decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem–a declaration which sparked tear gas and fires in Lebanon, Israeli gunfire and an air strike over Gaza, four Palestinians dead, hundreds injured, an emergency UN Security Council…
On Thursday, supermodel Bella Hadid, who is of Palestinian descent, posted an emotional protest on Instagram against Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, undermining the multi-faith sanctity of the territory and furthering the oppression of the Palestinian people. Last night she and her…
According to a new Washington Post report, Donald Trump does not fully understand the implications of his decision to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel and move the U.S. embassy there. This isn’t particularly surprising for a man who does not fully understand literally anything, up to and including how to keep…
Last September, Simona Sharoni, a professor of gender studies at SUNY Plattsburgh in upstate New York gave an interview to an online magazine in which she talked about the need to connect feminism and gender to the movement for Palestinian rights. The interview wasn’t out of the ordinary for Sharoni. She’s made her…
Donald Trump has reportedly picked David Friedman, an Orthodox Jewish lawyer who supports moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, as his ambassador to Israel. Friedman, in addition to having helped Trump make money bankrupting his own casinos, has called Barack Obama an anti-Semite and referred to members…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has voiced his high hopes for the Trump Administration’s relationship with Israel. In fact, he believes Trump will be amenable to unraveling the Iran deal, finalized in 2015 by President Obama.
Late on Friday, Governor Andrew Cuomo released a list of 13 companies and institutions that his administration determined had supported or participated in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. Per an executive order he issued over the summer, the state of New York must end any business…
Imagine: You are at Sleep No More, an interactive horror play that Vulture has called “freakily immersive.” Beside you is a man with expensive-looking white hair, an Israeli accent, and a security detail. It is Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, and he is just here to let loose!
According to American diplomatic parlance, the city of Jerusalem does not belong to Israel, or any country, for that matter. But when Donald Trump spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, he promised that this policy would change: Jerusalem would henceforth be recognized as the capital of Israel.
The best way to visit Israel as a Jew is to do so naively. Go when you’re very young. Don’t look to your left, or to your right. You will love it. Return as an adult, however, and the magic is hard to recreate.
On Tuesday, the White House confirmed that Kayla Jean Mueller, a 26-year-old American woman kidnapped outside a Syrian hospital in 2013, died while being held captive by ISIS. According to media reports, her parents have been provided with at least three photographs of her corpse. So now, naturally, is the time for…
People with an internet connection and a digital camera are doing their part to end the age old conflict between Israel and Palestine by posting selfies alongside plates of hummus. Why didn't we think of this sooner?
As the conflict between Israel and Hamas rages on, leaving over a thousand Palestinians dead, we can all be comforted by the fact that the nation's top celebrities are offering their two cents. (Maybe more like one cent.)
What would happen if your favorite Disney characters were redrawn to resemble terrorists out to kill jews? Well, if you haven't had your daily dose of outrage yet, you're going to need to sit down for this "art" which casts "Princess Yasmine" and Aladdin as terrorists and Family Guy characters as poor defenseless…
