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Alabama Legislators and Israel Consul General Anat Sultan-Dadon launch the caucus in Montgomery on May 8. As the Alabama Legislature winds down its annual session, numerous legislators delayed heading out to an end-of-session party on May 8 to announce the formation of the Alabama-Israel Legislative […]

Turman Hall at Emory University in Atlanta, also the Charles and Peggy Evans Anatomy Building. Credit: Daniel Mayer via Wikimedia Commons. By Jonathan Feldstein So, Emory has caved to the antisemitic anarchists who have tried to take control of the campus, both physically and ideologically. […]

Anti-Israel demonstration in Birmingham, November 2023 (SJL file) While building takeovers and illegal “Free Palestine” encampments being cleared on college campuses across the country have been all over the news, demonstrations in the Deep South have generally been quieter — and faced more pushback. Conversely, […]

Similar postcard received at Ali’s Cookies in Atlanta in February A 31-year-old man has been charged with threatening a rabbi in Georgia and faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of […]

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) meets with Jewish and pro-Israel students at the George Washington University Hillel in Washington, D.C., on May 1, 2024. Credit: Office of Sen. Rick Scott. (JNS) — Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) shared his “disgust” over antisemitic protests on campuses during a […]

Displaced Palestinians pitch tents next to the Egyptian border with the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 8, 2024. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90. A group of 35 Republican Senators, including most of the ones from the South, urged the Biden […]

Pro-Palestinian students disrupt an Israel event on the campus of the University of California, Irvine. Credit: Ariana Rowlands/Campus Reform. On May 2, Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee urged Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the committee chairman, to hold a hearing regarding “flagrant civil rights […]

(JNS) — A North Carolina man, who threatened to “annihilate” those associated with a Charlotte Jewish organization, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison and then three years of supervised release and 20 hours of community service over three months. Jeffrey Scott Hobgood, 64, […]