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For over a year, Jewish students on American college campuses have been the subject of targeted harassment and attacks at the hands of their fellow students and faculty. This issue has been ongoing for decades, but it truly broke out into the open after October 7, when radical Jew-haters on these campuses took a cue from Hamas to enact their own scaled-down intifadas. During this time, people of conscience everywhere, both Jewish and non-Jewish, Democrat and Republican, were demanding the federal and state governments to address this growing issue. Now that President Donald Trump is back in office, those grievances are being answered.

Peter Beinart, a noted liberal Jewish journalist, recently argued in a New York Times opinion piece that the State of Israel does not, in its current form as a Jewish state, have an inherent right to exist. According to Beinart, only people have an inherent right to exist, and it is the obligation of a State to protect its populace. If it doesn’t, its right to exist is forfeited, and a new State with a more representative government should be formed in its place.

A week of a Trump presidency has more news and actions than the four years of Biden. Every moment of every day it seems like something else is occurring.  Between the military, the border, California fires, ICE deportations, pardons, and a dozen other things that Donald Trump directly addressed and indirectly affected, this difference between the country now and what it was a few weeks ago is astounding.  Trump is not only projecting strength on the world stage, he is actually using the absolute power America wields to further American interests.

In the first of what will be many contentious confirmation processes of the new Trump administration, Pete Hegseth became the new Secretary of Defense in a wild 51-50 vote. The tie-breaking vote by Vice President JD Vance was necessary because three Republican Senators joined the 47 Democrats in voting against Hegseth. Despite this, Hegseth is in, and Jewish groups are celebrating his confirmation.

Keeping descendants of the 1948 refugees in place is about perpetuating a futile war on Israel. They should be allowed to flee Hamas rule and seek better lives elsewhere.

(Jan. 27, 2025 / JNS) President Donald Trump is often at his best when he discards conventional wisdom and what the experts say is the only solution to any given problem. That was clearly the case when, during a 20-minute question-and-answer session with reporters on Air Force One on the way back from his visit to the site of the California wildfires, he said that both Egypt and Jordan should admit some of the Palestinian Arabs in Gaza as refugees.