6 d. ago Israel is playing an outsized role in a heated New York City mayoral race. Will it matter?

The race has turned into an Israel-Palestine proxy war of sorts, even as voters on both sides wish the focus remained on local issuesSpeaking from a Jerusalem bomb shelter last week as Iran and Israel exchanged fire, a New York state senator posted a video message to New York City voters: “There is a mayoral primary coming up this week where one of the candidates does not believe the Jewish state has a right to exist,” said Sam Sutton, the senator from Brooklyn. “We don’t want to be in a situation like this in America.”Sutton called on New Yorkers to elect a “great friend of the Jewish people”: Andrew Cuomo, New York’s former governor. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Israel is playing an outsized role in New York City’s mayoral race. Will it matter?

The election has turned into an Israel-Palestine proxy war of sorts, even as voters on both sides wish the focus remained on local issuesSpeaking from a Jerusalem bomb shelter last week as Iran and Israel exchanged fire, a New York state senator posted a video message to New York City voters: “There is a mayoral primary coming up this week where one of the candidates does not believe the Jewish state has a right to exist,” said Sam Sutton, the senator from Brooklyn. “We don’t want to be in a situation like this in America.”Sutton called on New Yorkers to elect a “great friend of the Jewish people”: Andrew Cuomo, New York’s former governor. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Taylor Swift granted temporary restraining order against alleged stalker who claimed to be in relationship with her

The pop superstar says 45-year-old Brian Jason Wagner ‘makes me fear for my safety’

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2 w. ago Taylor Swift files for restraining order against alleged stalker who claimed to be in relationship with her

The pop superstar says 45-year-old Brian Jason Wagner ‘makes me fear for my safety’

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3 w. ago Jewish U.S. senators fear for their safety after Boulder flamethrower attack: ‘Antisemitic to their core’

Violence in Colorado, Pennsylvania and Washington, DC is a sign of increased threats toward Jewish Americans, the officials told The Independent

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3 w. ago Antisemitic and Islamophobic violence is rising in the United States. Both must stop | Moustafa Bayoumi

We have a duty to call out antisemitism when we see it. We also have an equal duty to remember that Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims are also being targetedThis must stop. Two incidents of political violence, both targeting groups of Jewish people, are two incidents too many. Less than two weeks ago, a gunman shot and killed two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington DC, yelling “Free Palestine” as he was being detained. This week, a man used a “makeshift flamethrower” along with other incendiary devices to attack a Boulder, Colorado, rally organized by Run for Their Lives, a group which organizes events “calling for the immediate release of the hostages held by Hamas”. Eight people were injured in this latest assault, at least two of them seriously.These horrific acts will no doubt increase the anxiety many Jewish people have about increasing – and increasingly violent – antisemitism in the United States. Understandably so. Antisemitism must not be given any oxygen to breathe. One c...

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3 w. ago Holocaust survivor victim of Boulder terror attack speaks out: ‘What the hell is going on in our country?’

Barbara Steinmetz is recovering from her injuries after an apparently antisemitic terror attack that saw 12 people hurt

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3 w. ago White House boasts family of suspect in Boulder attack ‘could be deported as early as tonight’ – live

Suspect’s six family members, ‘have been captured and are now in ICE custody for expedited removal,’ a White House post saysFamily of suspect in Colorado fire attack taken into custody of US immigrationDonald Trump has threatened to impose “large scale fines” on California over the participation of a transgender athlete taking part in a high school competition.The president wrote on Truth Social:A Biological Male competed in California Girls State Finals, WINNING BIG, despite the fact that they were warned by me not to do so. As Governor Gavin Newscum fully understands, large scale fines will be imposed!!! Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Elon Musk steps up criticism of Trump budget bill, calling it a ‘disgusting abomination’ – US politics live

After officially leaving government adviser role, Tesla CEO doubles down on opposition to what he calls ‘massive, outrageous’ billDonald Trump has threatened to impose “large scale fines” on California over the participation of a transgender athlete taking part in a high school competition.The president wrote on Truth Social:A Biological Male competed in California Girls State Finals, WINNING BIG, despite the fact that they were warned by me not to do so. As Governor Gavin Newscum fully understands, large scale fines will be imposed!!! Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Boulder suspect ‘looked like a gardener.’ Then he unleashed makeshift flamethrower on Israel marchers: police

Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, used a garden sprayer he allegedly turned into a flamethrower and reportedly had another 16 Molotov cocktails at the ready when he was apprehended, a report said

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3 w. ago Run for Their Lives: Israeli hostages advocacy group ‘targeted’ in ‘blatantly antisemitic’ Boulder attack

The FBI believes the incident was a ‘targeted’ terror attack on a group advocating for the release of October 7 hostages

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3 w. ago What we know about the attack against a group of demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado

Six people calling for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza were injured at an outdoor mall in Boulder, Colorado, by a man who used a makeshift flamethrower and hurled an incendiary device into the crowd

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