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Senior Republican close to Trump criticizes Biden's arms holdup in speech to Israeli parliament
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Elise Stefanik, a House Republican leader seen as a candidate to be Donald Trump's running mate, delivered a speech before Israel's parliament on Sunday in which she criticized President Joe Biden's approach to the war in Gaza. Stefanik, the fourth...
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French police fatally shoot a man suspected of setting fire to a synagogue
ROUEN, France (AP) — French police shot and killed a man armed with a knife and a metal bar who is suspected of having started a fire that charred and blackened the insides of a synagogue in the Normandy city of Rouen early Friday, an attack the interior minister said was “clearly”...
Editorial Roundup: North Carolina
Greensboro News and Record. May 11, 2024. Editorial: What vile posts? Antisemitism bill shines a harsh light (again) on Robinson As a political calculation — and make no mistake, it is one — a GOP-fueled bill in the North Carolina legislature that purports to...
2 men accused of plotting Islamic State-inspired attack against Jews in England
LONDON (AP) — Two men accused of plotting to gun down Jews in an Islamic State-inspired attack in northwest England were held without bail Tuesday after appearing in a London court. Walid Saadaoui, 36, and Amar Hussein, 50, were accused of planning to use automatic weapons to kill...
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As pro-Palestinian encampments spread to European campuses, UK government seeks to head off unrest
CAMBRIDGE, England (AP) — About three dozen pro-Palestinian protesters crawled out of their tents Thursday morning at Cambridge University, grabbed coffee and tea and sat in a circle for the daily briefing. Drink water, display the Palestinian colors, don’t talk to reporters,...
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North Carolina may join other states in codifying antisemitism definition
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A bill seeking to officially define antisemitism in state law swiftly moved through the North Carolina House on Wednesday amid heated nationwide campus protests over the Israel-Hamas War. A nearly unanimous House passed the SHALOM Act, a week after the U.S....
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K-12 school leaders reject allegations that they let antisemitism run rampant
WASHINGTON (AP) — Leaders of three large public school systems strongly denied allegations that they let antisemitism run rampant in their schools, telling a congressional panel Wednesday that they are fighting it with education and, when necessary, discipline. As part of a series...
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In Holocaust remembrance, Biden condemns antisemitism sparked by college protests and Gaza war
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday decried a “ferocious surge” in antisemitism on college campuses and around the globe in the months since Hamas attacked Israel and triggered a war in Gaza, using a ceremony to remember victims of the Holocaust to also denounce new waves of...
Biden, warning of a rise of antisemitism, says too many are forgetting horrors unleashed on Israel by Hamas on Oct. 7
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Donald Trump calls Joe Biden weak on antisemitism, ignoring his own rhetoric
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is accusing Joe Biden of offering a weak response to antisemitism, wielding the clashes on colleges campuses over the war in Gaza as a campaign issue. But Trump's attacks ignore his own long history of rhetoric that invokes the language of Nazi Germany and plays on...
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