US PoliticsWhite House confirms US did not approve Israel’s strikes on SyriaPresident Trump was said to be ‘caught off guard’ by the operation, while his press secretary added that he ‘hated seeing the pictures of starvation’ in GazaBy Jacob Jaffa1 min read
Film‘Hollywood has no spine’: The Jewish director fighting antisemitism through filmWendy Sachs was horrified by the support Hamas received after October 7 and created a documentary to change the narrative.By Yishai Kiczales2 min read
US PoliticsUS congressional committee finds Biden administration let $900m go to anti-Netanyahu protestsTaxpayer funding helped six nonprofits fund efforts to undermine the Israeli government, according to an investigation of over 380 documentsBy JC Reporter1 min read
AntisemitismSesame Street’s Elmo condemns hacker who spouted Jew-hatred from his X accountThree days after Sesame Street’s Elmo’s X account was hacked into by an antisemitic hacker, the puppet has addressed the ‘abhoernt’ tweetsBy Jamie Shapiro1 min read
TVEmmys 2025: Jewish stars and series dominate comedy nominationsSeth Rogen’s Jewish-influenced show ‘The Studio’ earns record-breaking number of Emmy nominations for a comedy seriesBy Eliana Jordan2 min read
USANearly a quarter of Americans find attacks on Jews ‘understandable’The figure is ‘unacceptable’ says head of ADL which commissioned surveyBy Simon Rocker1 min read
EducationLargest US teachers’ union endorses proposal to ban ADL material on antisemitism, HolocaustThe National Education Association voted in favour of cutting ties to the Anti-Defamation League over perceived pro-Israel biasBy Eliana Jordan3 min read
US PoliticsIsraeli Diaspora Minister calls Democrat Senate leader Chuck Schumer a ‘Palestinian’Amichai Chikli dubbed the veteran lawmaker a ‘self-hating Jew’ over his congratulation of anti-Zionist New York mayoral contender Zohran MamdaniBy Canaan Lidor1 min read
Francesca AlbaneseTrump administration sanctions Francesca Albanese for ‘unabashed antisemitism’Albanese authored a report, released last week, accusing companies and organisations of being complicit in Israel’s so-called “genocide” in GazaBy JC Reporter3 min read
PFLPJewish anti-Zionist group shares post honouring PFLP terrorist as ‘resistance writer’IfNotNow’s New York branch memorialised Ghassan Kanafani, whose group orchestrated the 1972 Lod Airport Massacre which claimed 26 livesBy Jacob Jaffa1 min read
Artificial intelligenceGrok spouts Nazi propaganda and calls itself ‘Mechahitler’ after right-wing ‘update’X boss Elon Musk said last month that the AI chatbot would be ‘fixed’ after users complained it was too progressiveBy Jacob Jaffa2 min read
Donald TrumpNetanyahu nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize amid Gaza ceasefire negotiations"Few leaders have achieved such tangible breakthroughs to peace in such a short time," the Israeli premier wrote to the Nobel Committee.By JC Reporter1 min read
Donald TrumpTrump pleads ignorance over ‘Shylock’ comment after passing ‘Big Beautiful Bill’The president claimed he had ‘never heard’ the term used in an antisemitic contextBy Jacob Jaffa1 min read
Columbia universityColumbia president tried to remove Jewish ‘mole’ on university boardNewly published emails show that Claire Shipman downplayed concerns about campus antisemitism and called for the dismissal of one of the institution’s ‘most outspoken Jewish advocates’By Andrew Bernard and Vita Fellig1 min read
Iran nuclear programPentagon claims US strikes set Iran’s nuclear programme back by up to two yearsThe latest report appears to contradict comments made by the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdogBy Joshua Marks1 min read
IranIran-linked hackers threaten to release White House email cacheThe Trump administration has rubbished the claim, calling it a ‘calculated smear campaign’By Jacob Jaffa2 min read
