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“Hamas U.” “Terror on Campus.” “Jihadi Student Body.” “The Columbia Caliphate.” All of these headlines and more dominated the news over Pesach, where most Jews would have happily had a media blackout. Instead, they were forced to wonder how this could possibly happen in America? How could the generation that witnessed 9/11 raise a generation of students that would cheer another 9/11?

Are there any excuses left for the pro-Israel Biden voter? Aside from either complete ignorance of the facts or an intractable hatred for Donald Trump, how is there any justification to vote for Joe Biden if the US-Israel relationship is a top-five issue for you?  Biden’s utter and complete betrayal of the lone Jewish state has moved from the normal inept stupidity we’ve become accustomed to from this administration to downright evil.

As the post-Oct. 7 pro-Hamas protests and resulting surge of antisemitism have shown, it is the idea of a Jewish state that’s under attack, not Israel’s policies or actions.

(May 13, 2024 / JNS) Amid the celebrations of Israel’s 50th birthday in 1998, there began to be talk of the Jewish state entering into a post-Zionist era. To many Israelis as well as Jews in the Diaspora, the idea of Zionism or identifying as a Zionist seemed irrelevant to the realities of a country that was, for all of its challenges, a firmly established reality. The very term seemed to conjure up a bygone period when advocacy for the right of Jews to sovereignty in their ancient homeland was a heroic struggle against the odds.

Caught between activists in his party who seek to reduce his administration’s support for Israel and the majority of Americans, including most Jewish voters, who support the war effort against Hamas, President Joe Biden announced on Monday that he rejects an international tribunal’s efforts to prosecute Israeli leaders.

As we buy our kids clothes for the summer, one can’t help but notice the watermelon all over cute rompers and dresses and t-shirts - the same symbol that the Free Palestine protest movement has adopted as its symbol. What once was a sweet summer print is now tarnished with anti-Israel, anti-Jewish sentiment. You never know when a watermelon is just a watermelon or when it is a signal of Jewish hate (because, let’s face it, these protesters don’t actually care about Palestinians; they only care about spreading anti-Jewish propaganda).

On the same week in which a young Iranian Jew was sentenced to death for defending himself against a Muslim attacker, the helicopter carrying Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, 63, and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, 60, crashed on Sunday in the foggy mountains near the country’s border with Azerbaijan. After many hours of searching, their bodies were found along with those of two other passengers and two flight crew.