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Hamas said it wouldn’t budge on its demands for a ceasefire, including a full withdrawal from Gaza. Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said on Wednesday that a hostage release deal with Hamas will only come as a result of military pressure. Addressing IDF commanders in the former Hamas stronghold of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, Halevi said, “We are pressing to deepen the achievement” of the military operation in Gaza City’s Shifa hospital, “and we are pressing to try to initiate movement in the negotiations, to bring about an agreement for the release of the…

GUEST EDITORIAL By Tom Tradup Contributing Editor, ALL ISRAEL NEWS Vice President of News & Talk Programming, SALEM RADIO NETWORK / SRN NEWS On March 26, I joined 15 other guests at the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C. for a private screening of the infamous videos shot by Hamas terrorists during their October 7 reign of terror. (We were all invited to Washington by ALL ISRAEL NEWS Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief Joel Rosenberg on the 172nd day of the current war.) Although I was honored to be among the invitees, I was not looking forward to seeing the footage captured…

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A terrorist opened fire at cars and at a schoolbus travelling on the main road traversing the Jordan Valley. Two people were lightly injured and one other was moderately to seriously injured. The attack occurred at 7 AM in the village of Ouja, a small village north of Jericho which the main road through the region passes through. Surveillance cameras show the terrorist standing on the road and opening fire at passing cars. The bus was hit by several bullets but there were no injuries reported among the schoolchildren.

U.S. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby stressed the need to protect the noncombatants in Rafah. The Israel Defense Forces has begun isolating Rafah in southern Gaza and has started taking steps to evacuate the city’s civilian population, Channel 12 reported on Wednesday. The moves come despite intensifying international opposition to a ground operation in the last Hamas stronghold, which Jerusalem says is necessary to defeat the terrorist organization. The final four Hamas battalions, comprising some 3,000 terrorists, are holed up in the city, according to Israel. There are also well over a million Gazans sheltering in Rafah, causing concern…

50-year-old man wounded outside of kibbutz east of the Gaza Strip. An Israeli man is in critical condition Thursday, with a second man also wounded, following a terrorist stabbing attack outside of a kibbutz in southern Israel. The attack took place at approximately 2:00 p.m. Thursday afternoon at a coffee shop off of the Beit Kama traffic junction, just outside of Kibbutz Beit Kama in southern Israel, 12 miles north of the city of Beersheba and 14 miles east of the Gaza Strip. During the attack, an Arab terrorist entered the coffee shop and stabbed a man roughly 50 years…

The assailant was reported to have uttered antisemitic invective before stabbing the man in the back six times. Police in Paris have arrested a man over the stabbing of a Jewish man on Monday night by a former friend of the victim who is said to have become “obsessed” with Jews. According to an eyewitness, the 35-year-old victim, who has not been named, was walking with his partner in the 14th arrondissement of the French capital when they were confronted by the assailant, who was armed with a knife. The assailant was reported to have uttered antisemitic invective before stabbing…

The decision was precipitated by an antisemitic meme spread in 2020. Meta’s Oversight Board reversed a company decision to allow Holocaust denial content on its platforms which include Facebook and Instagram just days ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, drawing praise from leading Jewish civil rights groups. In a statement, Meta’s Oversight Board, an independent body created in 2020, said the “prohibition is consistent with Meta’s human right’s responsibilities” and that “it is important to understand Holocaust denial as an element of antisemitism, which is discriminatory in its consequences.” The decision was precipitated by an antisemitic meme spread in 2020 featuring…

David Teeger, a rising star on South Africa’s cricket scene, has been removed as the country’s Under-19 team captain on the eve of the world championship competition. Cricket South Africa cited threats to Teeger, who is Jewish, and the team over Israel’s war in Gaza ahead of the U19 Men’s Cricket World Cup, which South Africa is hosting. “We have been advised that protests related to the war in Gaza can be anticipated at the venues for the tournament. We have also been advised that they are likely to focus on … David Teeger,” the organization said in a statement.…

The Lincoln Memorial closed temporarily on Wednesday after its steps were vandalized with graffiti reading “Free Gaza” in multiple places. U.S. Park Police are investigating the graffiti, which was discovered Wednesday morning at the Washington, D.C. monument, according to ABC News. Crews were dispatched  to clean up the vandalism. The steps of the memorial were splattered with red paint and pro-Palestinian messages, which the National Park Service said could take some time to complete. “National Park Service conservators have begun the process of removing the paint this morning, though it may take multiple treatments over several days to remove all…

SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — Did a New York City coffee shop’s workers quit over the owner’s pro-Israel stance? Was the library at Cooper Union barricaded to protect Jewish students inside from an angry pro-Palestinian mob? Ten weeks into the Israel-Hamas war, these are the kinds of stories fueling angry debate on social media, with Jews charging bigotry and critics of Israel saying antisemitism is being weaponized to silence them. These weren’t the kinds of events being debated—at least formally—at the 55th annual convention of the Association for Jewish Studies, held this week in San Francisco. Some 1,000 scholars gathered to…