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Israel-Gaza Update from the Jewish Federation of San Diego

Today, we are mourning IDF’s announcement that at least 30 of the hostages in Gaza are feared to have lost their lives. This tragic confirmation serves as a stark reminder that time is swiftly running out for those still in captivity. As efforts continue to resolve this crisis, the thoughts and prayers of the world are with the victims and their families. [Jewish Federation of San Diego]

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Qatari Foreign Minister: Hamas Has Responded Positively to Latest Ceasefire Proposal

Published by Benzinga Editor’s note: This story has been updated to add more information about Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s diplomatic visit to the Middle East and a new report on the deaths of Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip. Hopes for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip received a boost Tuesday after the prime

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Commentary: Is Antony Blinken’s mission in the Middle East impossible?

Published by Chicago Tribune Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in the Middle East for the next few days, where he will hold meetings with officials in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, Israel and the West Bank. While this is his fifth trip to the region since October, Blinken’s latest visit couldn’t come at a more

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Argentina’s Milei visits Israel, vows to move embassy to Jerusalem

Published by DPA International Argentinian President Javier Milei, who took office in December, arrived in Israel on Tuesday in a show of support for the country as the military campaign against Hamas militants continues in Gaza. “I want to assure Israel of my solidarity and my support for legitimate self-defence against the attacks by Hamas

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Some young voters can’t bring themselves to vote for Biden this year over the war in Gaza

Published by The Philadelphia Inquirer PHILADELPHIA — “Vote blue no matter who” was Madelyn Shick’s mantra before she could even vote after former President Donald Trump’s rise in 2016. She argued with people supporting third party candidates, but now she’s on the other side of that dispute. Shick, 22, said she can’t vote for any

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Pro-Palestine professor who said ‘Zionism has always been racist’ and one of the ‘five pillars of Islamophobia’ wins landmark case against dismissal

Published by GB News A Pro-Palestinian professor who was accused of antisemitic comments has won a landmark case against his dismissal from his post at Bristol University. Professor David Miller was “unfairly dismissed” from his role at the Russel Group University, following remarks he made about Israel where he stated that “Zionism has always been

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UN Chief Guterres announces formation of independent panel to assess UNRWA

Published by ANI News New York [US], February 6 (ANI): United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has announced the formation of an independent panel in order to evaluate the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Al Jazeera reported on Monday. The humanitarian organization has faced criticism due to claims made by Israel that

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Democratic Senate Candidates in California Split on Israeli Ceasefire; Agree on Combating Domestic Antisemitism

The most significant difference among the candidates was their answers to the ceasefire question.  While she favors eliminating Hamas as the power controlling Gaza, Lee said, “what I don’t think will assure Israel’s security is killing 26,000 women and children and civilians.” [Donald H. Harrison]

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Charges likely against 6 in Gaza war protest that shut down I-5 in Seattle

Published by The Seattle Times The Washington State Patrol will recommend charging at least six people in relation to the Israel-Hamas war protest that shut down Interstate 5 for nearly five hours last month, the agency said. An additional 10 people involved with the protest, which led to backups extending miles south of Seattle, are

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Treading on difficult ground, Florida lawmakers want to define ‘anti-Semitism’

Published by Orlando Sentinel A bipartisan bill seeking to define what speech is considered anti-Semitic is moving through the Florida Senate after easily passing the House. Rep. Mike Gottlieb, D-Plantation, sponsor of the House bill, said the goal is to curb hate speech toward Jews and Israel that has been on the rise across the

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A Big Angry Statue of a Lion for Mefalsim

Hamas threw themselves at the Mefalsim gate, their bodies piling up on top of the murdered corpses of Jews who had tried to escape the Nova Music festival about a kilometer down the road.  Hamas made certain no Jew reached the gate.  The defenders of Mefalsim made sure no monster made it inside the perimeter.  Mefalsim took losses, houses were smashed with RPGs, members died in their safe rooms. [Jerry Klinger]

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Symposium Told a New Strategy Needed to Combat Antisemitism

America’s Jewish community always knew that there was no vaccine or antidote for the disease of antisemitism, but prior to Oct. 7th, it felt the disease could be kept in check.  “We developed a containment strategy, a firewall, to make sure that here we could keep it in the sewers, with the covers on,” Abe Foxman told a “Standing Together” symposium Sunday that was jointly sponsored by the American Jewish Committee and the Jewish Federation of San Diego. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Speaker Johnson says House will vote on Israel bill next week, applying pressure to Dems

Published by Mirror By Joe Smith The House will vote on a standalone Israel aid bill next week, without any offsetting spending cuts, speaker Mike Johnson, R-La told Republicans on Saturday. Johnson criticized the impending Senate legislation that would lump Israel aid in with border security and asylum laws and funding for Ukraine in a

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