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Top White House and Justice officials tied the brazen shooting of two Israeli Embassy staffers to ongoing campus protests against Israel’s war in Gaza.
"There are so many moments where legitimate criticism of Israel and its conduct has crossed the line into antisemitism."
Groups that monitor hate crimes said the Hamas attack in 2023 and the subsequent war had helped fuel tens of thousands of anti-Jewish incidents globally, including cases of verbal abuse and violence.
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The Israeli Foreign Ministry said the shooting of two Israeli Embassy staffers outside an event at a Jewish museum in Washington, D.C., reflects an “alarming” rise in antisemitism seen since
Andrew Cuomo has attacked opponents, including Jewish ones, as antisemitic, while other candidates believe the issue is being used as a weapon to win Jewish voters.
The NYPD will boost patrols around synagogues and other places of worship as New York City’s Jewish community prepares for Shabbat after two Israeli Embassy staffers were murdered in DC.
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon described the shooting as “a depraved act of anti-Semitic terrorism” in a post on X. The shooting, which took place in the area of 3rd and F Street NW, killed a man and a woman, who have not yet been publicly identified. Others, including Israeli embassy employees, were injured.
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Daniel Shapiro, former U.S. ambassador to Israel and distinguished fellow at the Atlantic Council, about the shooting deaths of two Israeli embassy staffers in D.C.
A beautiful couple — staffers at Israel’s embassy — are slain as they leave a Jewish museum in America’s capital.
The extreme and paranoid policy paper underscores how the right has weaponized antisemitism to serve its political and theological projects.