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Jewish National Fund offices in London vandalized by Palestine Action, Nov. 2, 2024. Source: Palestine Action/X.
In The News

UK anti-Israel activists target defense workers’ homes in ‘sinister escalation’

A group calling itself “The List” has claimed responsibility for a series of incidents in recent weeks in which hooded individuals vandalize property and cars and post video online.
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A ballistic missile launched from Iran, as seen over the skies of Hebron in Judea, on June 8, 2026. Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90.Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90
In The News

US missions across Mideast warn of Iranian threats, Houthi escalation

(Oct. 19, 2026 / JNS)
U.S. diplomatic missions in 12 Middle Eastern countries issued security alerts on Sunday, urging Americans to “exercise heightened vigilance” over threats from Iran and its proxies and the risk of escalating Houthi attacks.

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Portland, Ore. Credit: Pixabay.
In The News

Since Oct. 7, Jews have been targets of nearly three-quarters of all religion-based hate crimes in Portland, Oregon

Bob Horenstein, of the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland, told JNS that the Federation “spent over $1.5 million last year for security for our community institutions.”
Read More...JNS

In The News

WATCH: Palestinians throw stones at People of Israel’s Hassan-Nahoum while visiting West Bank town

A stone is thrown through Hassan-Nahoum's car window while she is speaking to a camera, breaking it and wounding one of the passengers.
Read More...The Jerusalem Post 

Secretary of State Marco Rubio hosts a memorial for U.S. victims of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack at the State Department in Washington, D.C., Oct. 14, 2026. Credit: Freddie Everett/State Department.
In The News

Rubio: Iran, not Palestinian issue, main obstacle to Mideast peace

The U.S. secretary of state listed conflicts across the Middle East, which he maintained are instigated directly by Tehran or its proxies.
Read More...JNS

Aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip, at the Kerem Shalom crossing in southern Israel, Jan. 29, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
In The News

Gazan merchants being taxed, threatened as private sector goods delivery halted, Israel says

The Jewish state clarified a prior report and said it did not suspend private-sector operations for entry of goods into the Gaza Strip.
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Protesters take part in a demonstration against the sale of products from companies they accuse of being complicit to "genocide, occupation, and apartheid in the Palestinian territories," in Amsterdam on October 3, 2026; illustrative. (photo credit: SEM VAN DER WAL/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)
Issues

Banning Beersheba fans, allowing pro-Hamas rally shows Netherlands broken, Israeli ambassador says

"Hamas is a designated terrorist organization in the Netherlands - the same group responsible for the October 7 atrocities, the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust," Vapni said.
Read More...The Jerusalem Post 

An IDF infographic shows the two terrorists killed in Thursday's strikes, Mohammed Mohammed Abd al-Khalek Hala and Ahmad Jabrin Tawfiq Dalhan. (photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)
In The News

IDF kills two terrorists in Gaza Strip for roles in October 7, attempts to harm Israeli civilians

Al-Khalek Hala was a commander in the weapons productions headquarters of Hamas's military wing, producing different weapons and advancing Hamas's military presence in the Gaza Strip.
Read More...The Jerusalem Post

Dollar bills on top of a map of Iran. Credit: corlaffra/Shutterstock.
In The News

US sanctions Iran-tied shadow banks, sends alert on religious charity abuse

“The Department of the Treasury will not relent until the Iranian regime’s coffers are empty and every remaining financial lifeline sustaining its war machine has been severed,” stated Scott Bessent, U.S. treasury secretary.
Read More...JNS

The letter in which Ibrahim Sinwar, 10, expresses a desire to shoot Jews. Credit: IDF.
In The News

‘Hold a Kalashnikov and shoot Jews’: IDF reveals letter by Yahya Sinwar’s son

“I am constantly making pistols, tanks and Kalashnikovs out of paper and cardboard,” the boy wrote to his father.
Read More...JNS 

In The News

Israel ‘took the land’ from Palestinians, has ‘ceded moral ground,’ Obama tells Belfast crowd

Former US president Barack Obama said on Tuesday that Israel "took land off people and they were excessive," in reference to Israel's treatment of the Palestinian people throughout the history of the nation.

Read More: The Jerusalem Post

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Knesset speaker rejects genocide charges in speech to European parliamentary leaders

Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, addressing European parliamentary leaders in Rome on Thursday, rejected allegations of genocide in Gaza and accused world leaders of spreading falsehoods for political gain, drawing some applause.

Read More: The Times of Israel

In The News

How the Houthis are helping Iran turn Saudi Arabia into a pressure point

The Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia are about more than Yemen.

Read More: The Times of Israel

New York City comptroller Mark Levine speaks at the “State of New York/The Future of Being Jewish in New York” at the 92nd Street Y alongside New York City Council speaker Julie Menin and Manhattan borough president Brad Hoylman-Sigal, April 22, 2026. Credit: Gerardo Romo/NYC Council.
Issues

‘Indefensible,’ Jewish leaders say of NYC comptroller opting to abort city’s Israel Bonds investments

The reversal “sends an unfortunate signal at a time of rising antisemitism and sustained efforts to isolate Israel economically,” Evan R. Bernstein, CEO of B’nai B’rith International, told JNS.
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An illustrative silhouette of an intelligence agent handler with a backdrop of the Iranian flag. (photo credit: Tomas Ragina/Shutterstock)
In The News

German court sentences two for plotting to kill leader of German Jewish community for Iran

A Hamburg court ruled that Iranian intelligence recruited a man to carry out state-sponsored terrorism in Germany, sentencing him to eight and a half years in prison.
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Illustrative: An iPhone loaded with TikTok and other social media application icons. (Wachiwit/iStock)
In The News

Online antisemitism hits record high three years after October 7, study finds

No social network has dipped back to pre-Oct. 7 hate level, Australian Online Hate Prevention Institute says, adding the data refutes claim that legitimate criticism of Israel is mislabeled as Jew-hatred
Read More...The Times of Israel 

HEZBOLLAH MEMBERS take part in a military exercise during a media tour organized for the occasion of Resistance and Liberation Day, in Aaramta, Lebanon, last month. (photo credit: AZIZ TAHER/REUTERS)
In The News

Iran warned Hezbollah to prepare for war as it expects US strikes soon, diplomats tell ‘Post’

According to the sources, Iran's message to Hezbollah was: "We estimate that an American attack is a matter of time - you should also be prepared."
Read More...The Jerusalem Post 

Weapons seized by Israeli security forces during operations in Judea and Samaria, Oct. 14, 2026. Credit: Israel Police Spokesperson’s Unit.
In The News

‘Sa’ir Brigades’: Israel Police bust suspected Palestinian terror cell in Judea and Samaria

Five suspects, aged 15, were arrested in a joint operation with the IDF and Shin Bet.
Read More...JNS

Palestinians unload sacks of wheat from a humanitarian aid truck into a grocery store guarded by Hamas fighters in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip.AP Photo
In The News

Hamas payment demands prompt Gaza traders to suspend deliveries, COGAT says

Israeli body says merchants report threats and demands for NIS 10,000 per truck, raising concerns over disruptions to goods and drinking water supplies

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Gavel on a courtroom table. Credit: Joe Gratz via Wikimedia Commons.
In The News

NY man who said put ‘all Jews in gas chamber’ charged with threatening FBI agents who investigated him

Dylan Daniell is also accused of calling a Jewish Lakewood, N.J., charity and saying that he “would like to kill Benjamin Netanyahu and all the Jews.”
Read More...JNS