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Brooklyn event with Itamar Ben-Gvir cancelled days before Israeli far-right minister’s US trip

By ANDREW LAPIN

(JTA) — A fundraiser with Itamar Ben-Gvir to be held at Brooklyn’s Jewish Children’s Museum was abruptly cancelled Friday, shortly after being announced.

The event featuring the far-right Israeli minister was to be hosted by Beis Shmuel...

‘F–k Israel’ message displayed at Coachella music festival and streamed to millions

By JTA STAFF

(JTA) — The Irish band Kneecap displayed a large anti-Israel message during its set Friday at Coachella, a music festival held in the California desert.

A series of messages projected behind the band accused Israel of genocide...

US Jewish voting surges in Zionist election, with ballots open through May 4

By DEBRA RUBIN

(JTA) — At a time of heightened antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment, American Jews have been voting in record numbers in an election that will help determine how billions of dollars in Israel-related funding will be spent. 

The...

‘Death to Israel’ scrawled on Northwestern University building during Passover

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — Jewish students at Northwestern University awoke on the second day of Passover to a scourge of red paint across several university buildings with messages including “death to Israel” and “intifada now.”

In a message to...

Jewish family on way to Passover seder killed in NY plane crash

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — A Jewish family was killed Saturday when their private plane crashed en route to upstate New York to celebrate Passover.

Among those lost in Sunday’s crash were siblings Karenna Groff, 25, and Jared Groff, 26,...

Trump administration can deport Mahmoud Khalil over antisemitism concerns, judge rules

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian protest leader arrested by ICE at Columbia University, can be deported, a federal immigration judge ruled Friday.

The ruling by Jamee Comans, a Louisiana immigration judge, is the most significant development...

Mahmoud Khalil’s ‘otherwise lawful’ behavior undermines US policy against antisemitism, Marco Rubio says

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — In advance of a pivotal court hearing this week in the deportation case of Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian protest leader at Columbia University, a judge demanded that the State Department lay out its case against...

Plane carrying freed Israeli hostages and US lawmakers clipped at DC airport

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — Two planes carrying members of Congress as well as the released Israeli hostages Keith and Aviva Siegel clipped wings on the taxiway at Reagan Washington National Airport on Thursday.

The two American Airlines jets were...

Muslim prayer room at NYU vandalized with name of Jewish fraternity

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — The name of a Jewish fraternity was graffitied in a Muslim prayer room at New York University’s library last week, according to school officials. 

A student was visiting the prayer room in Bobst Library last...

In new letter, Mahmoud Khalil downplays campus antisemitism and accuses some students of ‘participating in the genocide’

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — Mahmoud Kahlil accused Columbia University of creating a “manufactured public hysteria about antisemitism” and likened the school to a Nazi collaborationist government in a letter dictated from an ICE detention center.

He also claimed, without...