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In 2026 California governor’s race, antisemitism emerges as a defining issue

By ASAF ELIA-SHALEV

(JTA) — In a state where housing costs, wildfires and water shortages usually dominate campaign rhetoric, the 2026 race for California governor is being shaped to a significant extent around a different flashpoint: antisemitism.

At a packed...

Amid Iran tensions, Huckabee tells US embassy staff in Israel they should leave ‘TODAY’ if they wish

By PHILISSA CRAMER

(JTA) — Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has told U.S. government employees and their families that they may leave the country and should do so expediently, amid mounting signs of a possible U.S. attack on Iran.

Huckabee...

Australian tribunal rules ‘All Zionists are terrorists’ chant a criminal offense

By JNS STAFF

(JNS.org) – An Australian man was found on Thursday to have violated Victoria state’s hate speech laws by chanting “All Zionists are terrorists” at an anti-Israel rally less than a year ago.

The Victorian Civil...

Atlanta Jewish Film Festival apologizes for selecting anti-Zionist juror to judge human rights films

By ANDREW LAPIN

(JTA) — The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival apologized and announced it would review its internal processes after the Israeli consulate withdrew its support over an anti-Zionist juror.

The Israeli Consulate in the Southeastern United States withdrew its...

Trump administration files lawsuit against UCLA, saying it failed to protect Jewish and Israeli employees

By ASAF ELIA-SHALEV

(JTA) — The Department of Justice filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday accusing the leadership of UCLA of allowing an antisemitic work environment on campus, intensifying the Trump administration’s long-running scrutiny of the Los Angeles campus.

The lawsuit,...

Yaron Lischinsky’s brother, Jewish hockey stars Jack and Quinn Hughes among guests at Trump’s State of the Union

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — Among the guests expected to attend President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address Tuesday evening are Hanan Lischinsky, the brother of the Israeli embassy staffer killed last summer, and the Jewish Olympic hockey star...

Israel’s highest court rebukes government for blocking egalitarian prayer at Western Wall

By ASAF ELIA-SHALEV

(JTA) — Israel’s highest court has delivered a unanimous rebuke to state and municipal authorities over long-stalled plans to upgrade the Western Wall’s egalitarian prayer section, intensifying a dispute that has come to symbolize broader tensions over...

Robin Kelly, running for Senate in Illinois, says Israel committed ‘genocide’

By JOSEPH STRAUSS

(JTA) — An Illinois congresswoman who is running for U.S. Senate said during a debate Thursday night that she believed Israel committed a genocide in Gaza, in the latest sign of a sea change in Democratic sentiment...

South Africa pulls out of Venice Biennale — because its selected artist wanted to focus on Gaza

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — South Africa will not participate in this year’s Venice Biennale following a dispute between its culture ministry and the artist it had selected, whose planned installation focused on Gaza.

Gabrielle Goliath, a South African artist...

French, German, Jewish leaders call for resignation of UN’s Francesca Albanese over ‘common enemy’ comments

By PHILISSA CRAMER

(JTA) — A slew of prominent voices, including the French foreign minister, have called for the resignation of United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese over her latest comments about Israel.

Albanese, the U.N.’s Palestinian rights envoy, is...