Author: Lauren Marcus

Donald Trump praises “New York’s finest” for clearing encampment, retaking occupied building from anti-Israel protesters at Columbia University campus. Former president Donald Trump offered strong praise for the New York City Police Department, after officers raided a building on the Columbia University campus which was illegally occupied by anti-Israel students, resulting in hundreds of arrests. “New York was under siege last night,” Trump said at a campaign rally in Wisconsin, adding that the students and pro-Palestinian activists who broke into the building and briefly held a facilities worker hostage were “raging lunatics and Hamas sympathizers.” Trump said that the police…

Israeli professor says many of his colleagues don’t appreciate the danger posed by the ongoing protests. Lists of Jewish and Israeli professors containing their personal information were distributed among pro-Hamas protesters who have set up encampments at Columbia University in New York, according to an Israeli lecturer at the school. Professor Itsik Pe’er, who is the deputy chair of the Computer Science Department at Columbia, told Hebrew-language TV news that the anti-Israel demonstrations at the school had led to a hostile environment for Jewish and Israeli students and staff. When asked if he felt safe as a Jewish Israeli on…

“Israel is a sovereign state, and we are the only democracy in the region,” said Energy Minister Eli Cohen. A senior Israeli government official said that increasingly harsh rhetoric from the Biden administration regarding the ongoing fighting in Gaza stems from concerns over the November 2024 presidential election. Speaking at a conference in Eilat, Energy Minister Eli Cohen suggested that public criticisms of Israel were for the Democratic party’s political benefit, rather than representing a fundamental change in the U.S.’s view of Israel. “The only change I see in the Americans’ stance is because of the upcoming elections in the…

Hamas “began destroying my family home in 2013 when they built tunnels beneath it,” writes U.S.-based Gazan journalist. A journalist from the Gaza Strip slammed Hamas in a lengthy post on social media platform X on Tuesday, stating that the terror group had used his family as human shields and ruined the lives of residents of the coastal enclave. “Hamas terrorists used my family and hundreds of our neighbors as human shields. Hamas continues to hold the people of Gaza captive,” tweeted Jehad Saftawi, linking to a recent opinion piece he penned for Time Magazine. In that article, Saftawi, who…