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.”

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…

UF President Ben Sasse, on his Ivy League/MIT colleagues: "They revealed themselves as having drunk the Kool-Aid of a new and cultlike worldview. Along with so much of higher education, especially outside the hardest of sciences, they have become acolytes of a shallow new theology called “intersectionality.” This is neither a passing fad nor something that normies can roll our eyes at and ignore."
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… "At root, intersectionality teaches that the relative victim status of various groups is the deepest truth, and this framework must drive our interpretation of both natural and built reality. Truth, moral claims, beauty, dignity, the explanatory value of a research insight—all of these must be subjugated to a prior determination of the historical power or powerlessness of certain sociological categories."

BREAKING @J_Insider via @GSDeutch: Top WH official tells JI that a Biden tweet criticizing violence in the Middle East "is not a change in policy."

WH official reiterates Biden’s support for Israel’s war against Hamas in new interview.
jewishinsider.com/2023/11/white-… Senior WH official, to @J_Insider: "As the president has said many times, Israel has every right and even the responsibility to protect its citizens from an active terrorist threat, so the president continues to strongly stand with Israel as it defends itself from Hamas."

Former President Obama, in a lengthy statement puts out a list of recommended reading on Israel:

-- column by Tom Friedman: "Israel Is About to Make a Terrible Mistake"

-- Ben Rhodes NY Books article: "Gaza: The Cost of Escalation"

barackobama.medium.com/my-statement-o… also a NYT article over the weekend: "‘I Love You. I Am Sorry’: One Jew, One Muslim and a Friendship Tested by War"

all told, it's the kind of reading list that would infuriate those advocating for Israel to deter Hamas terrorism w/ a strong response
barackobama.medium.com/my-statement-o…

Must-read edition of @J_Insider newsletter: Israel at War:

1. Lew's Republican roadblocks (@marcrod97)

2. Schumer's Israel trip (@HaleyCohen19)
jewishinsider.com/2023/10/daily-… 3. "In show of support for Israel, U.S. ramps up its troops in Mediterranean" (@reglash)

4. "Squad members face new vulnerability over anti-Israel activism" (@matthewkassel)

jewishinsider.com/2023/10/daily-…

NEW @alanagoodman at @freebeacon: "Pedro Gonzalez, the magazine editor and online influencer who has amassed a following on the far right over the past several years, made more extensive anti-Semitic remarks than previously reported."
freebeacon.com/elections/in-p… "Gonzalez argued in online messages obtained by the WFB that Nancy Pelosi 'can't be criticized' publicly because she is a Jew—Pelosi is a Roman Catholic—and that Jewish scholar Yoram Hazony is an unfit spokesman for American nationalism because he was born in Israel"

House Dem leadership puts out statement, on Jayapal's comments.

"Israel is not a racist state. 

As a Jewish and Democratic nation, Israel was founded 75 years ago on the principle of complete equality of social and political rights for all of its citizens irrespective of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… More from Dem House leaders Jeffries, Clark, Aguilar, Lieu:

"America and Israel have a uniquely special relationship anchored in our shared democratic values and strategic interests. As House Democratic leaders, we strongly support Israel’s right to exist as a homeland for the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

*Exclusive* ⁦@J_Insider⁩ interview with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, where she declines to say whether she’s running for re-election.

Talks with ⁦@GSDeutch⁩ on foreign policy: “Sinema warns against major element of Israel’s judicial reform” jewishinsider.com/2023/04/sen-ky… “The Arizona Independent said proposal to weaken Israel’s Supreme Court would be ‘a complete breakdown of separation of powers’ but backs some reform”

jewishinsider.com/2023/04/sen-ky…

Breaking ⁦@J_Insider⁩: “Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis teased a potential 2024 presidential run at a conference in Jerusalem on Thursday morning.” (via ⁦@reglash⁩) jewishinsider.com/2023/04/ron-de… “In DeSantis’ keynote address at the museum, he highlighted Florida’s growing Jewish and expat Israeli community, the state’s flourishing economic ties with Israel as well as his own unwavering support for the Jewish state.”

Big 2024 scoop at ⁦@J_Insider⁩ via ⁦@matthewkassel⁩:

“Top RJC board members and donors rally behind Nikki Haley, say she’s the ‘best candidate for Jewish Republicans.’” jewishinsider.com/2023/03/nikki-… “The letter is signed by Phil Rosen, a leading corporate attorney and Jewish leader in New York City; Cheryl Halpern, a partner at the production company HQ Creative LLC and a former national chairwoman of the RJC; and Fred Zeidman, a Houston-based GOP donor and businessman.”