Republican bill calls for antisemites to be deported

newsweek.com A House Republican has told Newsweek why she is introducing new legislation which would deport any foreign national charged with a crime at "pro-terrorism or antisemitic…

Eurovision 2024: how is politics playing out in Sweden?

theweek.com One of the biggest fallacies about major cultural and sporting events is that they cannot nor should not be political. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which organises…

Israel and Hamas are pushing forward with tense cease-fire talks despite Israel's military incursion into Rafah

businessinsider.com Smoke rising following an Israeli airstrike east of Rafah, Gaza Strip, on May 6, 2024. AP Photo/Ismael Abu Dayyah Israel and Hamas are engaged in tense cease-fire talks…

Israel’s War on Gaza Could Spark Protests that Shape Entire Region

nakedcapitalism.com Yves here. Confirming the thesis of this post, a new Garland Nixon interview with Laith Marouf of Free Palestine Video starts out (at 2:20) with a discussion of an armed…

Oil slides on rising U.S. stockpiles, strong dollar

theglobeandmail.com Oil prices fell on Wednesday as industry data showed a rise in crude and fuel inventories in the U.S. and as the U.S. dollar strengthened, signalling that demand for oil is…

John Fetterman attacks Joe Biden on Fox News

newsweek.com Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman criticized President Joe Biden for pausing a shipment of arms to Israel. The Biden administration halted a shipment of thousands of bombs…

Israel reopens key Gaza aid crossing but Rafah remains closed

semafor.com Semafor Signals Supported by Insights from The Washington Post, UNICEF, the BBC, CBS News, and Al Jazeera The News Israel reopened the Kerem Shalom crossing into the…

‘You’ve No Idea How Many You’ve Killed?’: Israeli Spox Falls Silent As Piers Morgan Grills Him On Civilian Death Figures

mediaite.com Israeli government spokesman Avi Hyman fell silent as Piers Morgan grilled him on being unable to provide figures for the number of civilians killed in the country’s ongoing…

Oil slides on rising US stockpiles, strong dollar

investing.com Oil prices fell on Wednesday as industry data showed a rise in crude and fuel inventories in the U.S. and as the U.S. dollar strengthened, signalling that demand for oil is…

U.S. pauses bombs shipment to Israel amid Rafah assault dispute

nbcnews.com The U.S. began reviewing future transfers of military assistance to Israel in April, as Netanyahu’s government appeared to move closer to a Rafah operation despite the…

Some say AI will make war more humane. Israel’s war in Gaza shows the opposite

vox.com A December 2023 photo shows a Palestinian girl injured as a result of the Israeli bombing on Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. | Saher Alghorra/Middle East images/AFP…

Why labor unions are backing pro-Palestine protesters after mass campus arrests

thehill.com Several major labor unions have criticized the mass arrests of students and faculty at pro-Palestinian campus protests across the country, following their own calls for a…

How Anti-Israel are college students? What poll shows

newsweek.com Eighty percent of college students in the U.S. don't approve of Israel's handling of the war against Hamas in Gaza, according to an exclusive Newsweek/College Pulse survey.…

Israeli officials leave Democrats still fuming after Capitol Hill meetings

axios.com A top Israeli general and diplomat tried to address Democrats' growing frustrations over the war in Gaza in two separate Capitol Hill meetings on Tuesday, but made little…

Israel Says It Has Reopened a Gaza Border Crossing as Fuel Supplies Dwindle

wsj.com The Kerem Shalom border crossing between Israel and Gaza has reopened, Israel said, as aid groups warn Israeli operations in Rafah imperil humanitarian efforts.

Futures tread water, more earnings ahead, Toyota reports

investing.com Investing.com -- U.S. stock futures hug the flatline as markets assess the potential of Federal Reserve interest rate cuts later this year. More quarterly earnings reports…

The Great Ukraine Robbery Is Not Over Yet: Ron Paul

zerohedge.com The Great Ukraine Robbery Is Not Over Yet: Ron Paul Authored by Ron Paul via the Ron Paul Institute, The ink was barely dry on President Biden’s signature transferring…

Generation Z has problems compared to past generations, but money isn’t one

washingtonexaminer.com If you ask why these privileged college students are bringing their campuses to a halt over an issue that has almost nothing to do with their universities, the answer is…

What does divesting from Israel really mean?

vox.com A core demand at the heart of the protests over the war in Gaza currently roiling college campuses across the US and around the world: that universities divest from Israel.…

Oxford students must 'sign radical manifesto to join protest camp'

youtube.com Oxford University students protesting against the war in Gaza have signed up to a demand that millions of Palestinians be allowed ...

Stocks and bonds wobble as global economy throws off mixed signals

finance.yahoo.com Investors have gone from bracing for a U.S. recession to positioning for the world's biggest economy to keep chugging along. European growth is also better than anticipated…

Asia stocks slip, dollar climbs as Fed rate path pondered

aol.com May 8, 2024 at 2:05 AM TOKYO (Reuters) -Asian stocks slipped on Wednesday, while the dollar climbed despite lower U.S. Treasury yields as markets assessed mixed signals from…

The Biden administration said it had paused weapons destined for Israel, in Washington's first formal rebuke to its top Middle East ally's campaign against…

wsj.com The Biden administration said it had paused weapons destined for Israel, in Washington’s first formal rebuke to its top Middle East ally’s campaign against Hamas in Gaza.

U.S. Paused Weapons Shipment to Israel Over a Possible Rafah Offensive

wsj.com Biden administration officials are concerned about the use of 2,000-pound bombs in densely populated areas of Gaza.

Once champions of free speech, colleges crack down on pro-Palestinian protests

nbcnews.com What should have been a season for celebrating the waning academic year is being overshadowed by a tug-of-war between college students who oppose Israel’s military actions…

Biden administration paused bomb shipment to Israel over Rafah invasion concerns, official says

axios.com The weapons shipment to Israel that the Biden administration decided to put on hold last week included 1,800 2,000-lb bombs and 1,700 500-lb bombs, a senior U.S. official…

Lindsey Graham Says There Are Only Two Kinds of Gaza Protesters: ‘Dumbasses’ and ‘Terrorist Sympathizers’

mediaite.com Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) claimed on Tuesday that pro-Palestine protesters could be sorted into just “two classes”: “dumbasses” and “terrorist sympathizers.” Reacting to…

Romney Cites Anti-Israel Posts As Latest Reason To Ban TikTok

zerohedge.com Romney Cites Anti-Israel Posts As Latest Reason To Ban TikTok Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, In a conversation with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Sen. Mitt…

Oil prices little changed as U.S. moves to replenish reserve, Gaza cease-fire still uncertain

cnbc.com Crude oil futures were little changed Tuesday as the U.S. moved to replenish the strategic petroleum reserve and a potential cease-fire in Gaza remained uncertain. The U.S.…

Inside OpenAI’s new plan for fighting deepfakes

platformer.news On Tuesday, OpenAI joined the steering committee of a little-known but increasingly powerful standards body known as the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity,…

The Marine Corps That Should Have Been

zerohedge.com The Marine Corps That Should Have Been Authored by Gary Anderson via RealClearPolitics, Say what one wants about the Israeli incursion into Gaza, but not a single rocket or…

Columbia created new rules after historic 1968 protests. Its administration just broke them to authorize police on campus, university report concludes

aol.com Columbia University’s South Lawn, where students built two “Gaza Solidarity Encampments,” is now empty, after police equipped with military-grade weapons and riot gear…

Analyzing the debate over how colleges are cracking down on campus protests

pbs.org Protests against the war in Gaza continue on college campuses across the country. Monday, we looked at the idea that colleges themselves fomented these demonstrations. Now,…

Over and Over, President Biden Has Proven to Be a Mensch for the Jews

newsweek.com Today, President Joe Biden delivered the keynote address at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Annual Days of Remembrance ceremony in the U.S. Capitol. In his…

How AI tells Israel who to bomb

vox.com AI is supposed to help militaries make precise strikes. Is that the case in Gaza? Israel’s war with Hamas, in response to the attacks of October 7, 2023, has led to more…

Eurovision 2024: First Semi-Final Sees Ukraine Go Through, Alongside Contest Favourite Croatia

deadline.com 10 countries have triumphed in the first semi-final of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, when 16 countries competed to get through to Saturday’s Grand…

What Israel's assault on Rafah means for the 1.3 million Palestinians sheltering there

pbs.org The Israeli tanks that entered the periphery of Rafah early Tuesday stoked global fears that an offensive on Gaza’s southernmost city could endanger the more than a million…

7 Numbers That Clearly Reveal The Direction That America Has Chosen

zerohedge.com 7 Numbers That Clearly Reveal The Direction That America Has Chosen Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, Over the past several decades, America’s culture…

Joe Biden Is, at Best, a Fair-Weather Friend of Israel

newsweek.com As Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) arrived, the White House released a statement from President Joe Biden mourning "the six million Jews who were killed by the Nazis…

White House Condemns Rep Mike Collins Sharing Ole Miss Video of Black Protester Being Taunted: ‘Beneath Any Person’

mediaite.com (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre accused Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) of doing something “beneath any person” by sharing a video of…

Israel hasn't crossed "red line" with current Rafah operation, U.S. officials say

axios.com The White House thinks the Israeli operation to capture the Rafah crossing doesn't cross President Biden's "red line" that could lead to a shift in U.S. policy towards the…

Macklemore Supports College Campus Protests, Rips Biden on Pro-Palestinian Song ‘Hind’s Hall’

billboard.com Macklemore hasn’t been one to mince words in the past when speaking up for a cause he believes in. Now, the Seattle native is throwing his support behind Gaza and college…

Trump-appointed judges say they’ll boycott Columbia grads over university’s handling of protests

aol.com A group of 13 conservative US federal judges are vowing to not hire Columbia University law students or undergraduates because of how the school has handled pro-Palestinian…

White House says Israel and Hamas put a hostage deal within reach

axios.com The Biden administration says the current positions presented by Israel and Hamas allow the gaps in hostage deal and ceasefire negotiations to be closed and put a deal…

New Quills Needed for Taiwan's 'Porcupine' Strategy Against China

newsweek.com Avril Hines, director of national intelligence, disclosed Thursday in Congressional testimony that Russia and China are training together for a future invasion of Taiwan.…

Eurovision is supposed to be fun and silly. This year is different

vox.com Bambie Thug, Ireland’s entry to Eurovision this year, calls herself a “ouija popstar” and a witch. | Jens Büttner/Picture Alliance via Getty Images Eurovision doesn’t want…

The false promise of friendshoring

economist.com Each year the 193 member states of the United Nations General Assembly vote on dozens of resolutions, earnestly setting the world to rights. Last month, for example, they…

The Mainstream Media Is Biased Against Israel. I Know, I Was Part of It

newsweek.com As we see violent, entitled antisemites on college campuses attack Jewish students, endanger professors, destroy property, and take over buildings, all in the name of…

Netanyahu war crimes investigation puts Biden in tough spot

newsweek.com An International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation into Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for possible war crimes committed throughout the ongoing war in the Gaza…

Tiffany Haddish Explains Her Stand-Up Comments Over University Protests: “Do it Better. Really Be Effective”

hollywoodreporter.com Tiffany Haddish has addressed a viral moment from her stand-up performance, at this weekend’s Netflix Is A Joke Festival, where she called out the protests happening on…

“Mutual incomprehension now exists seemingly everywhere”: The New York Times’ publisher responds to its critics

niemanlab.org On Monday, March 4, New York Times publisher A. G. Sulzberger gave the annual Reuters Memorial Lecture at Oxford University. (We wrote previously about an interview he gave…

Facebook will stop subsidizing Australian news. Will tax dollars have to replace it?

niemanlab.org When we speak of media freedom, we generally mean it in terms of freedom from unnecessary legal restrictions, so journalists and their sources are not threatened with…

Biden condemns antisemitism on college campuses

newsweek.com Too many Americans are ignoring and downplaying the horrors of the Holocaust, President Joe Biden said in a speech on Tuesday, as he called for "continued vigilance and…

Biden condemns antisemitism, says people are forgetting that ‘Hamas unleashed this terror’

fortune.com President Joe Biden condemned the “ferocious surge of antisemitism in America and around the world” during a Tuesday ceremony to remember victims of the Holocaust at a time…

WATCH LIVE: White House holds briefing after Israel seizes Rafah crossing, threatening aid to Gaza

pbs.org White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will hold a news briefing on Tuesday as Israel’s military says its forces are in “operational control” of the Gaza side of the…

Joe Biden Condemns Rise Of Antisemitism, Warns Of People “Already Forgetting” Hamas’ Attack On Israel

deadline.com Joe Biden sharply condemned the rise of antisemitism in the United States, including incidents that have played out on college campuses amid pro-Palestinian protests.…

Twice as many young voters trust Donald Trump over Gaza than Joe Biden

newsweek.com Twice as many young voters trust former President Donald Trump to deal with the conflict in Gaza than President Joe Biden, new polling shows. Exclusive polling carried by…

Pro-Palestinian protesters retake MIT encampment as University of Chicago clears demonstration

pbs.org Police cleared a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at the University of Chicago on Tuesday as tension ratcheted up in standoffs with demonstrators at other college campuses…

Dozens of Pro-Palestine Protesters Arrested Near Met Ball

hollywoodreporter.com Over two dozen pro-Palestine protesters were arrested on Manhattan’s Upper East Side on Monday evening while marching from a midtown college campus to the Metropolitan…