USAID head Samantha Power declined meeting with Israeli ambassador Gilad Erdan during 2021 Hamas conflict Samantha Power (cropped from Ali Moustafa/Getty Images) When Israel’s ambassador was denied a meeting with the Biden administration in May 2021, he was looking to raise concerns about American funding to the United Nations’ Palestinian aid agency, whose employees went
A poll released Wednesday shows President Joe Biden’s approval bump last month in swing states has all but vanished, with Republican nominee Donald Trump again ahead of Biden in six of the seven states most likely to impact the 2024 presidential election. Biden is leading by 2 percentage points in Michigan but losing to Trump
House lawmakers called on the IRS to investigate U.S.-based anti-Israel activist groups that have financial links to China, according to a letter obtained by the Washington Free Beacon on Wednesday. Members of the House Ways and Means Committee said they are concerned that “foreign adversaries are taking advantage of loopholes to impact American political activity
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) this week demanded Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu resign for his “terrible” response to Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel, calling the Israeli leader an “obstacle” to peace. “We recognize Israel’s right to protect itself. We reject the policy and the practice of Netanyahu—terrible. What could be worse than
Columbia Law School students told their Jewish classmates they should not advocate for the school to bring police to campus to ensure their safety because the presence of law enforcement “makes students of color feel unsafe,” screenshots obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. In one message, second-year law student Aya Hashem admonished her Jewish
Student protesters ask participants, ‘Will you be ready to rally for your comrades?’ (Getty Images) Columbia University president Minouche Shafik set a midnight deadline for student protesters to clear the unauthorized tent encampment that has plagued campus—only to push that deadline back twice, first to 8 a.m. and then 48 hours. Late Tuesday night, Shafik
Students in their first year of medical school typically learn what a healthy body looks like and how to keep it that way. At the University of California, Los Angeles, they learn that “fatphobia is medicine’s status quo” and that weight loss is a “hopeless endeavor.” Those are two of the more moderate claims made