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The House of Representatives showed overwhelming bipartisan support for a $26 billion foreign aid bill providing funding for Israel and humanitarian aid to Gaza. The bill predictably polarized the most right and left-wing members of Congress; the former are furious over the $9 billion in aid aimed at the State Department for civilians in Gaza, while the latter are opposed …

The Biden administration could announce sanctions against an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) battalion for alleged human rights violations in the West Bank before the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas-led terrorists, according to reports. Axios reported that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken could announce the sanctions against IDF battalion “Netzah Yehuda” within days, marking the first time the …

A senior at Columbia University decried her institution and classmates who took part in anti-Israel protests on campus and in greater Morningside Heights. Katie, who described herself as being of Iranian descent with elders who escaped the theocratic hardliner regime in Tehran to avoid religious persecution, said she had to move off campus because the demonstrations in Morningside Heights became …

JERUSALEM – Just a week ago, some residents of Iran’s central province of Isfahan – a nuclear weapon and missile production hub of the Islamic Republic – cheered the Iranian rockets fired into Israel. In the early-morning hours of Friday, the Isfahan authorities werejolted by Israeli strikes that triggered their air defense systems in the cities of Isfahan and Tabriz …

Anti-Israel activists at Yale University in Connecticut set up a “liberation zone” in solidarity with Columbia University in New York City on Saturday. This comes after protesters at Columbia University were heard shouting pro-Hamas slogans, resulting in more than a hundred arrests as they set up an encampment on campus Thursday that continued into Friday. Protesters at Yale were also …

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to comment on the Biden administration’s response, particularly a lack thereof, escalating tensions in the Middle East during her Friday morning press briefing. “I know there’s a lot of interest in reports from the Middle East overnight. And we understand that, we get that. I’m going to see it now, though. I know …

U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Cori Bush, D-Mo., offered an amendment to a bill in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent aid from going to Israel unless Hamas releases its hostages and a cease-fire was put in place, measures the terror group has repeatedly rejected. The House Rules Committee refused to consider the measure and House lawmakers on Saturday showed …

CAPITOL HILL – House Republicans excoriated progressive “Squad” Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., for suggesting during the House Education and the Workforce Committee’s hearing tackling antisemitism at Columbia University that none of the demonstrations deriding Jews on campus have been “anti-Jewish.”Fox News Digital caught up with two Republicans on the committee at the Capitol after the hearing, asking their thoughts about …

Reasonable people can disagree about whether Asna Tabassum, who has expressed the view that the state of Israel should be destroyed, ought to be the University of Southern California’s duly appointed commencement speaker. There are prominent conservative voices such as Mary Katharine Ham, David Harsanyi, and Guy Benson, firm supporters of the Jewish state of Israel all, who say let …

Iranian nuclear sites are “fully safe” and have not been impacted by Israeli strikes, the country’s regime says. Israel carried out limited strikes on areas of Iran early Friday in retaliation for Tehran firing a barrage of missiles and drones at Israel last Saturday. The region surrounding the city of Isfahan — home to the country’s “nuclear energy mountain” — …