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US Senate candidate El-Sayed evades audience request to denounce IRGC, break silence on Iran

Michigan Democratic Party senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed evaded an audience member’s direct request to unequivocally condemn the Iranian regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) during a University of Michigan town hall event titled “Students vs. Billionaires” on Wednesday, at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor.

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Bronx man charged with hate crime for allegedly threatening Jewish man in Crown Heights with knife

Devin Best, 48, of the Bronx, was arrested and charged with a hate crime and aggravated harassment for allegedly chasing a visibly Jewish man in Crown Heights, threatening him with a knife and reportedly shouting “heil Hitler” on Wednesday, a New York City Police Department spokesman told JNS.

Read More: Jewish News Syndicate

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Ambassador Leiter says he’s ‘full of hope’ for son seriously wounded in West Bank ramming attack

Israel’s Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter rushed back to Israel Thursday after his son was seriously wounded the previous day in a car-ramming attack in the West Bank, telling reporters that he was “full of hope” for his recovery and asserting that Palestinian violence in the territory was aimed at “uprooting the Jews from this land.”

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Norwegian FOR party and youth wing to participate in Oct. 7 demonstration in support of Hamas

The event slogan is “Support the Palestinian resistance!” and the promotional image is of Hamas and Palestinian terrorists on top of a tank on October 7.
Read More…The Jerusalem Post 

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Celebrated Gaza journalist admits Hamas controlled media

“When someone gets out of the ambulance and says, ‘May God punish Hamas,’ while I’m filming, the people around him turn their camera away,” he said.
Read More…JNS 

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Katz slams Turkish leader over ‘antisemitic and incendiary’ UN address

Jerusalem’s defense chief labeled Recep Tayyip Erdoğan a “paper sultan,” citing his support for Hamas and silence on regional missile strikes
Read More…JNS 

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SCOOP: State Department to host Oct. 7 memorial for slain Americans

The event will take place just ahead of the three-year anniversary of the Hamas-led attacks and is being organized by Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s office, JNS learned.
Read More…JNS 

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Neria Leiter, son of Israel’s ambassador to US, remains in ‘very serious condition’ after terror attack

Yechiel Leiter’s wounded son faces peril after undergoing brain surgery following a car-ramming near Modi’in.
Read More…JNS 

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Judge rules Bay Area school district not complying with state mandates to address Jew-hatred

The ruling establishes a precedent that the state can “enforce its own orders” against districts “unwilling to acknowledge or address discrimination against Jews and Israelis,” Marleen Sacks, an education attorney, told JNS.
Read More…JNS

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Trump admin placing ‘crushing sanctions’ on Iran, Rubio says

“Unprovoked, he brought up the disastrous possibility of an Iranian nuclear attack on Israel and exposed New York’s Israel-hating mayor as a man trying to appease his antisemitic base,” radio host Sid Rosenberg told JNS of his interview with the U.S. secretary of state.
Read More…JNS

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IDF soldier seriously wounded in car-ramming attack on Highway 443, terrorist killed

Israel Police stated that the terrorist had hit a police patrol vehicle belonging to the Judea and Samaria District. An officer and a soldier were inside the vehicle as part of a joint operation.
Read More… The Jerusalem Post

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US and Iranian negotiators hold talks at UN that Trump says ‘went very well’

Witkoff clarifies that mediators ‘shuttled’ between the sides; Trump gripes that members of Iran’s delegation were ‘not the highest level’; Rubio says US president open to meeting his Iranian counterpart while he’s in NYC for General Assembly
Read More…The Times of Israel

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In UN speech, Trump asks if he should ‘annihilate’ Iran

“Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness for generations?” the U.S. president said at the U.N. General Assembly in New York.
Read More…JNS

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Qatar says its aid did not fund Hamas, and if it did, ‘Israel is responsible’

Statement responds to New Yorker story saying Doha’s payments to Gaza ‘helped buy’ terror group’s pre-Oct. 7 arms buildup; Qatar: Money was for civilians and was overseen by Israel
Read More…The Times of Israel 

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Canada: Man arrested on suspicion of threatening to commit shooting attack on synagogue

The suspect, 19, who was detained in Durham east of Toronto, is facing “Threats Motivated by Hate” charges.
Read More…JNS

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Iranian children to be recruited for Islamic Republic’s ‘self-sacrifice’ campaign

The campaign’s spokesperson said it was centered on the cultural slogan, “We have one life, and we give it for Iran,” which he acknowledged had drawn international criticism.
Read More…The Jerusalem Post 

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Argentine judge charges 7 Iranians, 1 Lebanese over 1994 AMIA Jewish center bombing

Iranian defendants held high-ranking government positions, while Lebanese suspect was Hezbollah member; the charges, made in absentia, may lead to trial over attack that killed 85
Read More…The Times of Israel 

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Terror victim Netanel Shukrun laid to rest as his son thanks him ‘for saving my life’

Yoav, 16, says his father shouted a warning to him in his last moments during Sunday’s shooting at West Bank spring; widow Meirav says ‘everything was perfect’ for 18 years
Read More…The Times of Israel