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Jewish freelance journalist Emily Wilder is detained as Israeli military intercepts Gaza aid flotilla

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — Jewish freelance journalist Emily Wilder, reporting for Jewish Currents, a progressive Jewish publication, was detained by the Israeli military on Monday while covering an aid flotilla bound for Gaza.

Wilder set sail from Italy last...

Manchester terrorist identified as Jihad al-Shamie

By CHARLES BYBELEZER

(JNS.org) – Police on Thursday identified the suspect in the deadly Yom Kippur attack at a synagogue in Manchester, England, as Jihad al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian descent.

Two people were killed when Al-Shamie rammed his...

‘Today we burn Jews,’ Argentine students chant in viral video taken on graduation trip

By JUAN MELAMED

(JTA) — A viral video showing a group of high school seniors in Argentina chanting antisemitic slogans during their graduation trip has prompted a wave of condemnation, including from President Javier Milei.

The video, recorded in the...

An open letter opposing the Israeli film boycott, signed by Liev Schrieber, Mayim Bialik and others, is making the rounds in Hollywood

By ANDREW LAPIN

(JTA) — Around 1,200 Hollywood names, including stars like Liev Schrieber, Mayim Bialik and Jennifer Jason Leigh, have signed onto an open letter opposing a growing celebrity boycott of the Israeli film industry.

Led by Creative Community...

Report: In first for a US tech giant, Microsoft terminates Israeli military use of its software

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — Microsoft has revoked the Israeli military’s access to a software it used to store data on millions of phone calls by Palestinian civilians, according to a letter obtained by the Guardian.

In doing so, the...

An isolated Netanyahu takes UN stage amid pushback from Trump and Abbas

By PHILISSA CRAMER

(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, a day after both Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and U.S. President Donald Trump spoke forcefully against some of his ambitions.

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Netanyahu: There will be no Palestinian state

By JNS STAFF

(JNS.org) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on Sunday that there will not be a Palestinian state, and said that an Israeli response to the international recognition by various Western countries will come upon his return from a...

‘Jews are banned from entering here!’ sign in German shop window spurs international backlash

By TOBY AXELROD

(JTA) — BERLIN — An antisemitic sign in a shop window in a northern German town has gone viral. Now, even Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid is threatening to sue the shopkeeper in Flensburg “for every cent...

UN Security Council vote advances ‘snapback’ nuclear sanctions on Iran

By JNS STAFF

(JNS.org) – The U.N. Security Council voted down a resolution to provide sanctions relief to Iran on Friday, moving significantly closer to imposing “snapback” penalties on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear efforts.

Under the terms of resolution 2231,...

Palestinian Authority arrests suspect in 1982 attack on Paris Jewish restaurant

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — The Palestinian Authority has arrested a key suspect in a deadly antisemitic terror attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris in 1982, French President Emmanuel Macron announced Friday.

The Palestinian suspect, Hicham Harb, 70, was...