My latest analysis in @J_Insider: "It’s a trend that has largely gone unnoticed amid former President Donald Trump’s legal woes, but moderation is slowly creeping back into the American body politic — at least based on early returns from primaries and developments in many key races"
jewishinsider.com/2024/06/daily-… "Squad-affiliated Reps. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) and Cori Bush (D-MO) are facing the fight of their political lives against mainstream Democratic challengers. Both are already in serious trouble in their summer primaries — an unprecedented degree of vulnerability for sitting lawmakers."

BREAKING @J_Insider / @emilyfjacobs: "Michigan Sen. Gary Peters slams terror-linked conference Rep. Tlaib addressed: ‘There is no place for violent rhetoric’"

"Tlaib spoke alongside guests who advocated for violence against Israel and defended the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks"
jewishinsider.com/2024/05/sen-pe… "Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) distanced himself from Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (D-MI) appearance at the People’s Conference for Palestine, where pro-terror messages were celebrated and an activist with ties to a group designated by the U.S. as a foreign terrorist organization was welcomed."
jewishinsider.com/2024/05/sen-pe…

“Up to half of UCLA medical students now fail basic tests of medical competence.” freebeacon.com/campus/a-faile… “Faculty members with firsthand knowledge of the admissions process say it has prioritized diversity over merit, resulting in progressively less qualified classes that are now struggling to succeed.”

My latest analysis @J_Insider: “The Washington Post’s news coverage of the Biden administration’s Israel policy and university crackdowns on anti-Israel encampments on campus have lately been colored by an obsession that wealthy Jewish donors are the main force driving leaders’ decisions”

jewishinsider.com/2024/05/daily-… “The supposedly straight news reporting all but ignores the antisemitism that was present at many of the encampments in the first place and fails to grapple with the reality of public opinion — that a sizable majority of the American public, according to polls, support Israel and oppose the anti-Israel campus activism.”

If I'm reading this correctly, a senior Biden official is floating the idea of a coalition PA-Hamas government as part of a future ceasefire deal -- per the Times of Israel:

timesofisrael.com/the-us-aims-to… "When the Palestinians get to a point where they are in a position to hold elections, a second US source said, the goal is for Hamas alternatives to have demonstrated results in governing that can be weighed against the destruction that the terror group unleashed on the enclave due to its October 7 terror onslaught."

NEW @J_Insider via @emilyfjacobs: "Jewish Democrats concerned over Maryland’s Democratic party’s leftward tilt"

"Sen. Chris Van Hollen has elevated his rhetoric against Israel in recent months, raising concerns that down-ballot Democrats may follow"
jewishinsider.com/2024/05/jewish… "Pro-Israel Democrats in Maryland are wondering how a state with one of the largest Jewish constituencies in the country is represented by one of the Senate’s leading Israel critics — with some aspiring Democratic congressional candidates moving toward left-wing positions that until recently were rarely embraced in party circles."
jewishinsider.com/2024/05/jewish…

New battleground state polls, via NYT/Siena (of registered voters):

WISCONSIN
Biden 47
Trump 45

PENNSYLVANIA
Trump 47
Biden 44

ARIZONA
Trump 49
Biden 42

MICHIGAN
Trump 49
Biden 42

GEORGIA
Trump 49
Biden 39

NEVADA
Trump 50
Biden 38
nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/… "The sense that Mr. Biden would do little to improve the nation’s fortunes has helped erode his standing among young, Black and Hispanic voters, who usually represent the foundation of any Democratic path to the presidency."

BREAKING @J_Insider via @GSDeutch: "Biden threatens to withhold weapons to Israel if IDF goes after Hamas in Rafah"

"The president’s comments mark a significant policy shift towards the Jewish state"
jewishinsider.com/2024/05/biden-… "President Joe Biden told CNN in a Wednesday interview that he will withhold certain weapons transfers to Israel if the IDF mounts a major ground operation in Rafah, the first time Biden has explicitly stated that the U.S. is conditioning arms transfers to Israel.

Last month, the White House threatened to shift its policy toward Israel if it didn’t take additional precautions to protect civilians — and Wednesday’s interview confirmed that was not an empty threat."
jewishinsider.com/2024/05/biden-…

Bombshell lawsuit just filed: “The lawsuit, which seeks compensatory damages for nine American and Israeli victims of the attack in which Hamas killed 1,200 people and took 240 people hostage, alleges that AMP and NSJP work in the United States as collaborators and propagandists for Hamas. Hamas is a United States designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. The suit also notes that AMP (American Muslims for Palestine) and NSJP are merely the current version of several prior entities that were already determined by the U.S. government to be supporters of Hamas.”

gtlaw.com/en/news/2024/0… Lawsuit filed by Greenberg Traurig, LLP, the National Jewish Advocacy Center, the Schoen Law Firm, and the Holtzman Vogel law firm

SCOOP @J_Insider via @GSDeutch: "Inside the State Department’s anti-Israel listening sessions"

"Staffers feel comfortable venting about Biden’s support for Israel, and receive little pushback from senior department officials"
jewishinsider.com/2024/04/state-… "These meetings, and others like them held by senior department officials with lower-level employees, have often devolved into venting sessions about U.S. policy toward Israel and Gaza, three department employees told Jewish Insider. All of them requested anonymity to speak candidly about internal department matters."
jewishinsider.com/2024/04/state-…

Ruth Marcus, WaPo: "To visit this traumatized country as an American Jew is to begin — just begin — to grasp what one U.S.-born Israel Defense Forces soldier described to me as the 'existential loneliness of Israel.'"
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/… "​Israelis, of all political persuasions and degrees of observance, feel besieged and misunderstood. Six months after a day on which more Jews were murdered than since the Holocaust, Israel finds itself nearing the status of international pariah. How could this have happened?"

NEW @J_Insider via @GSDeutch: "Biden to Netanyahu: Consider ‘alternative approach’ to Rafah"

"Biden summons Israeli military leaders to Washington to express his concerns about Israel’s planned invasion"
jewishinsider.com/2024/03/biden-… "In a Monday phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Joe Biden reiterated Washington’s support for Israel’s goal of defeating Hamas while offering a resounding rejection of Israel’s plans to mount a major ground operation in Rafah, the southern Gaza city where many Hamas fighters are believed to be hiding."

NEW @J_Insider this am: "There are growing signs that President Biden is softening his support for Israel and its mission to defeat Hamas in Gaza, even as the WH is publicly telegraphing that the disagreements are with Netanyahu, not the Israeli public"
jewishinsider.com/2024/03/daily-… "After a State of the Union address where Biden sounded more animated over the humanitarian situation in Gaza than over Israel’s ability to defeat Hamas, he gave an interview to MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart where he warned an Israeli operation going into Hamas’ final stronghold of Rafah was a “red line” for him."

SCOOP @J_Insider via @marcrod97: "McCormick calls on Rep. Summer Lee to resign over scheduled appearance at CAIR gala featuring antisemitic speakers"

"Sen. Bob Casey criticized CAIR in a statement, but declined to speak out against Lee’s appearance"
jewishinsider.com/2024/02/dave-m… McCormick: "“I can assure you that the people of Pittsburgh and the people of Pennsylvania, they expect more of their leadership. They expect more than associating themselves with antisemites. They expect moral leadership, moral clarity."
jewishinsider.com/2024/02/dave-m…

BREAKING @J_Insider via @GSDeutch: "Jewish leaders slam White House for meeting with activist who defended Hamas, Hezbollah"

"Several top Biden officials traveled to Michigan to meet w/ Muslim leaders, incl. controversial Dearborn activist Osama Siblani"
jewishinsider.com/2024/02/jewish… "The meeting was part of White House efforts to mend ties with Arab Americans who are displeased with President Joe Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war, particularly in Michigan, a key battleground state. Siblani has pledged not to vote for Biden this year."

NYT: "As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do"
nytimes.com/2024/02/02/opi… "Transgender activists have pushed their own ideological extremism, especially by pressing for a treatment orthodoxy that has faced increased scrutiny in recent years. Under that model of care, clinicians are expected to affirm a young person’s assertion of gender identity and even provide medical treatment before, or even without, exploring other possible sources of distress."

SCOOP @J_Insider via @matthewkassel: "Rep. Jamaal Bowman praises speaker who celebrated Oct. 7 Hamas attacks"

"Embattled lawmaker appears with anti-Israel author Norman Finkelstein at Yonkers Islamic center last Sunday"
jewishinsider.com/2024/01/rep-ja… "Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) introduced a controversial anti-Israel scholar, Norman Finkelstein, who has accused Jews of exploiting the Holocaust to legitimize Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, at a panel discussion on the Israel-Hamas war last Sunday in Westchester County, where the congressman expressed his admiration for the polarizing author and activist."
jewishinsider.com/2024/01/rep-ja…

NEW @J_Insider via ⁦@matthewkassel⁩: “The Hill's online show, 'Rising,' falls prey to host's anti-Israel conspiracy theories”

“Briahna Joy Gray denied documentation of Hamas’ sexual violence and accused Israel of targeting its hostages in Gaza” jewishinsider.com/2024/01/the-hi… The show “has faced particularly fierce backlash over its incendiary left-wing commentary on the Israel-Hamas war, which has increasingly strayed into undisguised antisemitism, raising questions about whether the show’s commitment to engaging with provocative ideas has reached a breaking point”

“In addition to churning subscribers and losing $100 million a year, the Washington Post is also failing to engage audiences. Four years ago, the Post boasted 139 million monthly visitors. By the end of last year, it had less than 60 million” puck.news/post-modernism… “Of that audience, less than one in five read more than a single article per month, while less than one in 500 actually convert to a paying subscription.”

NYT's Bret Stephens, on Gay: "How did someone with a scholarly record as thin as hers — she has not written a single book, has published only 11 journal articles in the past 26 years and made no seminal contributions to her field — reach the pinnacle of American academia?"
nytimes.com/2024/01/02/opi… "The answer, I think, is this: Where there used to be a pinnacle, there’s now a crater. It was created when the social-justice model of higher education, currently centered on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts — and heavily invested in the administrative side of the university — blew up the excellence model, centered on the ideal of intellectual merit and chiefly concerned with knowledge, discovery and the free and vigorous contest of ideas."

SCOOP at @J_Insider: "Mazi Melesa Pilip discusses her policy platform in pivotal special election, in first in-depth interview since being tapped to run in #NY03 (via @matthewkassel)
jewishinsider.com/2023/12/mazi-m… "Pilip stakes out moderate ground on abortion and Donald Trump in first in-depth interview since entering the race"
jewishinsider.com/2023/12/mazi-m…