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Astounding’ government failures, House GOP report on Jew-hatred says
Andrew Bernard
December 19, 2024

U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) released an investigative report from six congressional committees about Jew-hatred in the United States after Hamas’s terror attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. The Republican staff report, which is based on seven months of committee investigations, describes “astounding” failures on the part of federal government departments and agencies. The report, which was released on Thursday, states that universities across the country likely violated the civil rights of Jews in their handling of anti-Israel campus protests…The report’s conclusions focus largely on the failures of universities to respond to anti-Israel campus protests which began after Oct. 7 but that turned into a nationwide wave of tent encampments. READ MORE

REASON Josh Blackman: DEI Still Has An Anti-Semitism Problem In the wake of October 7, college students across the country responded by praising the resistance against settler colonialism. These elites accused Jewish people of being Zionist oppressors. And leading thinkers justified acts of violence against Jewish students as a proportional response to “genocide” in Gaza. Should any of these reactions have been surprising? No. These principles have been espoused in CRT and DEI ideologies for decades. Students were merely implementing what they were taught.

NEW YORK POST Candace Owens named ‘Antisemite of the Year’ by StopAntisemitism: ‘Poisonous hater’ Firebrand pundit Candace Owens has been named “Antisemite of the Year” by watchdog StopAntisemitism, which says she “blew the competition away” with more votes than anyone in previous years. “Candace Owens’ witch’s brew of antisemitism drew from vile medieval blood libels, including claims that Jews drink Christian blood, conspiracies that Jews are pedophiles who control the media and are ‘taking over America,’ and modern toxic anti-Israel hysteria,” StopAntisemitism’s founder, Liora Rez, told The Post. 

COMMENTARY
The Democrats’ Anti-Israel Future: It all changed with Barack Obama
Joshua Muravchik
January 2025

…More important, after the Trump administration killed the JCPOA, Joe Biden revived efforts to install a new version of it, solidifying the idea among Democrats that the fanatical, nuclear-obsessed theocrats of Iran are amenable to diplomacy. This legacy of the Obama administration came complete with some of the same advisers who were behind the JCPOA—some of whom were mentioned in Iranian government emails about a project to cultivate sympathizers in the U.S. The Democrats’ continued interest in rehabilitating Iran led the Biden administration both to ease up on sanctioning the regime and to minimize Israel’s need to deter its sworn enemy since October 7. READ MORE

JEWISH INSIDER 77 House Democrats accuse Israel of violating arms sales laws A group of 77 House Democrats signed on to a letter to the Biden administration on Thursday accusing Israel of violating U.S. arms sales law and of failing to rectify issues, a situation that could trigger the suspension of offensive arms sales to Israel. While the letter does not make an explicit request to halt aid, it references the statute requiring the administration to cut off arms sales to countries that block delivery of humanitarian aid, and accuses Israel of deliberately restricting aid. READ MORE