President Joe Biden and other Democratic leaders in Congress this week said they will oppose a stand-alone bill to send aid to Israel. A Monday statement from the White House declared that Biden would veto the $17.6 billion bill, which includes aid for the Jewish state, that House Republicans have promoted in the wake of
Israel critic Sylvia Yacoub said Biden has ‘blood on hands’ over support for Israel Sylvia Yacoub (LinkedIn) A State Department employee who accused President Joe Biden of “genocide” and worked to undermine the administration’s support for Israel remains in her post more than three months after her social media activity drew widespread outrage, according to
Suspected Iranian agents allegedly plotted to assassinate Jews in Sweden, including an American citizen, Sweden’s national radio broadcaster reported Tuesday. Swedish authorities investigated an Iranian couple, Mahdi Ramezani and Fereshteh Sanaeifarid, on the suspicion that they acted on behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, allegedly trying to kill a leader of Sweden’s Jewish communities
A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that Donald Trump does not have immunity from charges that he plotted to overturn his 2020 election defeat, bringing the former U.S. president a step closer to an unprecedented criminal trial. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected Trump’s claim that he
When Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, then an emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, penned a Wall Street Journal op-ed in 2019 arguing that political issues like climate change and gun control had no place in medical school curricula, Larry Jameson, then the dean of Penn’s medical school, denounced Goldfarb by name.
Jane Lubchenco is barred from publishing in scientific journals following ethics violations White House science official Jane Lubchenco (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) A senior White House official barred from publishing scientific studies or working with the National Academy of Sciences led the federal government’s embrace of “indigenous knowledge.” In August 2022, the National Academy
The BBC has sacked its senior staffer who came under fire for posting anti-Semitic remarks on Facebook in recent months. The outlet confirmed on Monday that it had fired Dawn Queva, a senior scheduling coordinator and playout planner at BBC Three who frequently used anti-Semitic slurs online, including “Nazi apartheid parasites,” “thieving squatters,” and “subcontinental melanin