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US ‘Locked and loaded’ for ‘higher level’ attacks on Iran, Trump says

 By ANDREW BERNARD   (JNS.org)  – U.S. President Donald Trump said that he was ready to launch a “higher level” of attacks against Iran on Friday, as the two countries continue negotiations.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump said...

Austrian town turns Hitler’s birthplace into a police station to keep neo-Nazis at bay

By TOBY AXELROD

(JTA) — How do you stop neo-Nazis from meeting up at Adolf Hitler’s birthplace? Station officers there around the clock, of course.

That is just what the small town of Braunau in Austria has done — but the...

MAGA influencer Laura Loomer mounts Jewish apology tour in Ukraine, meeting with Zelensky and rabbi

By ANDREW LAPIN

(JTA) — MAGA firebrand Laura Loomer, who is warring with anti-Israel figures on the right, is invoking her Judaism as she pulls an about-face on a former hobbyhorse of hers: Ukraine.

Loomer interviewed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky...

US strikes Iran for eighth straight night after deadly attack on troops

By JNS STAFF

(JNS.org)  – The U.S. military struck Iranian targets on Saturday for an eighth consecutive night, hours after U.S. Central Command said the Islamic Republic had killed two U.S. service members in Jordan the previous day.

Iranian coastal surveillance...

Colombia and Slovenia recently recognized a Palestinian state. Now they’re moving their embassies to Jerusalem.

By LARRY LUXNER

(JTA) — JERUSALEM — Colombia, the world’s second most populous Spanish-speaking nation after Mexico, has little in common with landlocked Slovenia, the second-smallest of the six republics that once comprised Yugoslavia.

But when it comes to their...

US carries out fresh daytime strikes on Iran

By JNS STAFF

(JNS.org) – U.S. Central Command announced on Wednesday that it had carried out renewed airstrikes against Iranian regime targets.The daytime attacks, which lasted some 90 minutes, “further degraded Iran’s ability to attack commercial shipping in the Strait...

UK lawmakers press government on why West Bank imports haven’t yet been banned

By KELLY HARTOG

(JTA) — British lawmakers from across the political spectrum are pressing the government to ban imports from Israeli settlements in the West Bank, saying that explanations for why such a ban has not yet been imposed were...

EU seeks to advance trade ban on Israeli settlements

By SHIRA LI BARTOV

(JTA) — The European Union could be leaning toward banning trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

Foreign ministers debated various tactics to respond to the settlements on Monday at their monthly council meeting in...

UK Jewish groups express concern as the likely next PM criticizes Israel over Gaza

By KELLY HARTOG

(JTA) — Andy Burnham, who is on track to become Britain’s next prime minister following Keir Starmer’s resignation last month, apologized for his party’s handling of the aftermath of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas mass killings in...

US strikes 90 Iranian military targets, hours after Trump says ceasefire a ‘waste of time’

By JESSICA RUSSAK-HOFFMAN

 (JNS.org)  – The American military attacked about 90 military targets in Iran, including “air defense systems, coastal surveillance assets, missile and drone storage sites, naval capabilities and military logistics infrastructure along Iran’s coastline,” U.S. Central Command said shortly...