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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 2, 2024

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Relatives of Gaza hostages set up large banners and placards calling for their release during a protest in front of the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on May 2, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

May 2: US says no movement on hostage deal in recent days, reiterates ball in Hamas’s court

By Jacob Magid and Shira Silkoff

State Department says neither DC nor Riyadh will agree to deal sans pathway to Palestinian state * Israeli official says assumption in Jerusalem is that Hamas will snub hostage deal

8:31 pm

Kibbutz Be'eri announces resident Dror Or was killed on Oct. 7, body being held in Gaza
8:19 pm

Israeli strike hits Syrian security building outside Damascus, security source says
8:18 pm

Turkish ministry confirms halt of all trade with Israel

Police begin dismantling defiant pro-Palestinian protest encampment at UCLA

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Forces move in with helicopters overhead after demonstrators repelled initial attempt to disperse them; police detain handful of people after threatening arrests over loudspeakers

Professor Mohamed Abdou speaks to The Electronic Intifada in an interview published on April 27, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Columbia hires, and claims to fire, professor who voiced support for Hamas post-Oct. 7

Counter-protesters clash with anti-Israel demonstrators at a pro-Palestinian encampment set up on the campus of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), in Los Angeles on May 1, 2024. (ETIENNE LAURENT / AFP)

Fighting breaks out at UCLA as counter-protesters confront pro-Palestinian encampment

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Reporter's notebook

Gaza campus protests spread to Chicago high schools, alarming Jewish students

Half a dozen high schools allow hundreds of students to briefly skip class for sit-ins, with many then marching to encampments at nearby universities where they are embraced

Students at Jones College Prep High School in Chicago protest in support of Palestinians in Gaza on May 1, 2024. (Screen capture/YouTube, WGN News)

People chant against the Israel-Hamas war during a protest set up in a plaza at the University of Texas at Dallas, in Richardson, Texas, May 1, 2024. (LM Otero/AP)

Mideast takes notice as US campuses erupt over Gaza, capturing media attention

By AP and ToI Staff

Tents, flags and other supplies remain at Deering Meadow on Northwestern University's campus in Evanston, Ill. on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, a day after the university and protest organizers announced an agreement which largely ended anti-war demonstrations that have lasted days. (AP Photo/Melissa Perez Winder)

Northwestern criticized over compromise deal with pro-Palestinian protesters

By AP and ToI Staff

IDF soldiers wounded in the war with Hamas walk in the rehabilitation division of Sheba hospital in Ramat Gan, December 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Promoted Article

Project Mobility: Healing Israel’s Wounded Warriors

Project Mobility aims to help wounded IDF soldiers recover with proven VR physiotherapy game-play technology. They need your support to bring this equipment to Israel.

A demonstrator at Columbia University breaks the windows of the front door of the building in order to secure a chain around it to prevent authorities from entering as part of an anti-Israel demonstration, April 30, 2024. (Alex Kent/Getty Images/AFP)

‘As they chant for intifada, we will work together’: Herzog pans anti-Israel protests

President sends message of solidarity to Jews around the world, noting ‘violence, harassment and intimidation’ on campuses in the US, elsewhere: ‘The people of Israel are with you’

A screenshot from a post on the personal Facebook page of Haythem Abid on October 24, 2023, who describes himself as a head of office for the International Committee of the Red Cross. The picture of Abid shows him attending a pro-Palestinian rally in Montreal, Canada, on October 22, 2023. (Courtesy UN Watch)

Red Cross investigating inflammatory anti-Israel social media posts by employee

By Jeremy Sharon

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks to families and supporters of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza during a protest calling for their return, after meeting families of hostages in Tel Aviv, May 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Hamas indicates it will snub latest hostage deal offer, but says talks to continue

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Lebanon-based Osama Hamdan says mediators’ latest proposal is ‘negative,’ warns Rafah op would collapse talks, as terror group said readying to submit amended outline of its own

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives for a meeting with the Israeli president in Tel Aviv, on May 1, 2024. (Abir Sultan / POOL / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing May 2: Day 209 – Blinken delivers bear hug while warning against Rafah op

Arnold M. Eisen

A morally pure Judaism without actual Jews

What do we make of a Passover seder that depicts Zionism as idol worship and ignores the suffering of Israelis?

Make no mistake: ICC arrest warrants would harm Israel

It will take concerted diplomatic efforts to stop legal proceedings if international indictments of Israelis become real

Interview

Jessica Steinberg

US giving us more attention than Israeli leaders, says brother of hostage Keith Siegel

American-born Lee Siegel says he regularly attended anti-government protests last year, but now only attends rallies solely focused on captives’ plight

(L-R): Lee Siegel, brother of hostage Keith Siegel, then-US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, captivity survivor Aviva Siegel, and her daughter Shir Siegel, pose for a photo on May 1, 2024 (Courtesy)

Protesters hold a banner reading 'It's either Rafah or the hostages: Choose life' as they block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv during a demonstration calling for the release of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, May 2, 2024. (Dor Pazuelo/Flash90)

Protesters block Tel Aviv highway demanding deal: ‘It’s either Rafah or the hostages’

Natalie Zangauker, center, joins demonstrators calling for the release of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip outside Hakirya Base in Tel Aviv, May 1, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Relatives of hostages questioned by police, told to avoid anti-government rallies

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir attends a ceremony marking Memorial Day at the military cemetery in Beersheba, April 25, 2023. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)

Bereaved families irked by far-right ministers’ planned role in Memorial Day events

Government decisions seem calculated ‘to provoke, to ignite fires,’ says head of bereaved families’ organization; Kfar Saba mayor calls on Smotrich not to come to city

Israel's Eden Golan (center) rehearsing her song 'Hurricane' ahead of the Eurovision in Malmo, Sweden, on April 30, 2024. (Sarah Louise Bennett/EBU)

Israel raises travel warning to Sweden’s Malmo ahead of Eurovision

By Lazar Berman and Emanuel Fabian

Citing a ‘well-founded fear’ of violence, National Security Council asks Israelis to weigh trip to Sweden; IDF Home Front Command to issue warnings via mobile app to Israelis there

Sweden reports sharp rise in antisemitic hate crimes since Hamas attack on Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Eurovision organizers say they’ll remove Palestinian flags, symbols at Malmo show

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Sweden’s Jewish community anxious ahead of anti-Israel protests at Eurovision

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) speaks to the media on the Low Library steps on Columbia University's campus in New York on April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)

70 Democrats, 21 Republicans vote against legislation

US House advances bill to codify contentious and popular antisemitism definition

Antisemitism Awareness Act mandates government civil rights offices to adopt IHRA, which is endorsed around the world, even as critics say it chills legitimate criticism of Israel

(L-R) US representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) squeezes by representative Lauren Boebert (R-CO) ahead of US President Joe Biden's third State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 7, 2024. (Photo by SHAWN THEW / POOL / AFP)

Taylor Greene: Antisemitism bill rejects ‘Gospel’ that Jews handed Jesus to executioners

US President Joe Biden speaks at Union Station in Washington on April 9, 2024. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)

Biden to discuss ‘scourge of antisemitism’ in Holocaust Remembrance Day speech

By ToI Staff and JTA

Colombian President Gustavo Petro delivers a speech during a May Day (Labor Day) rally in Bogota on May 1, 2024. (Raul ARBOLEDA/AFP)

Colombia to sever ties after months of panning Israel as ‘genocidal’

By AFP, Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Foreign minister accuses Gustavo Petro, country’s first leftist president, of ‘standing alongside vile monsters who burned babies, raped women,’ ending decades-long relationship

Audience members listen to public comment at a special session of the Oakland City Council about a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, November 27, 2023, in Oakland, California. (AP Photo/D. Ross Cameron)

Hatred at your city council'The debate over this is tearing apart our community'

How ceasefire resolutions on faraway Gaza are sowing seeds of hate in US cities

By Cathryn J. Prince

Jewish Americans say people are using public hearings as a platform to spew antisemitism – and free speech laws prevent local governments from doing anything about it

Israel opens Erez crossing to Gaza aid for first time as Blinken tours border

By Michael Bachner, Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

IDF renovates destroyed pedestrian terminal into north Gaza to allow in trucks; secretary of state says relief effort improved but still falling short, visits Kerem Shalom, Nir Oz

Israeli troops are seen near the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel on May 1, 2024. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

IDF plans expansion of Gaza humanitarian zones, but US unswayed on Rafah offensive

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

A maritime pier being built by the US military off the coast of the Gaza Strip, in an image released on April 29, 2024. (CENTCOM)

Pentagon says floating Gaza aid pier more than 50% complete

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a Religious Zionism faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 30, 2024. (Oren Ben Hakoon/ Flash90)

Smotrich lauds Trump for ‘courage, integrity’ in apparent rejection of 2-state solution

‘A Palestinian state would be a terrorist state,’ far-right minister says after former US president tells Time magazine he thinks ‘two states is going to be very, very tough’

Presumed Republican presidential candidate former US president Donald Trump gestures at a campaign rally in Freeland, Michigan, May 1, 2024. (Paul Sancya/AP)

Trump: ‘Beautiful to watch’ police raid Columbia pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protests

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Inside story

In Dutch university cities, nonviolent street protests present a sticky situation

From Amsterdam to Rotterdam, anti-Israel stickers festoon Dutch urban centers and university campuses while, observers say, few pro-Israel stickers remain un-defaced for long

Sticker vandalism in Leiden, Netherlands, April 2024 (courtesy: Ethan Bergman)

Holocaust survivor Herbert Rubinstein talks during an interview with The Associated Press at his home in Dusseldorf, Germany, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Survivors rebut Holocaust denial posts on social media to fight antisemitism

Students shout slogans and display a banner reading "Long live the student intifada" as they take part in an anti-Israel rally at the Sorbonne University in Paris on April 29, 2024. (Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt/AFP)

France seen as more antisemitic than Poland in new poll among Israelis

By Canaan Lidor

The torched command center of the Nahal Oz IDF base, overrun by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, during a visit by relatives of slain lookout soldiers on December 19, 2023. (Courtesy/Eyal Eshel)

Report: Many IDF posts on Gaza border failed inspections in days before Oct. 7

By Emanuel Fabian

TV network reveals that in spot-check at Nahal Oz camp, troops failed to prevent unauthorized people from entering base and its war rooms

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi meets with officers and soldiers near the Lebanon border, May 1, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief warns Israel ‘preparing offensive in north,’ as Hezbollah attacks persist

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Halevi meets troops on Lebanon border amid ongoing skirmishes with terror group; anti-tank missiles cause damage to homes in Metula

An aerial view of the Yarkon River and the Mediterranean Sea as they meet at the Reading Power Station in Tel Aviv, on February 19, 2018. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

ExplainerHow Israel is preparing to keep lights and water running in event of a regional war

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Then-French president Francois Hollande walks back from a train car commemorating the Drancy concentration camp, during the inauguration of a new Holocaust memorial in Drancy, a Paris suburb, France, September 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Philippe Wojazer, Pool)

'Circumstances are different, but Jew-hatred persists today'

Podcast about a French railway’s role in the Holocaust tracks with US Jews post-Oct. 7

By Cathryn J. Prince

Newly-released ‘Covering Their Tracks’ is about a battle for justice. But for Jewish Americans suffering unprecedented antisemitism, it’s a much-needed tale of resilience and pride

More Headlines

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and youth raise placards during a protest against Israeli army conscription outside an army recruitment office in Jerusalem on April 11, 2024. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

Government tells court Haredi enlistment plan being drawn up, but more time needed

By Jeremy Sharon

Illustrative: Palestinian security forces in the West Bank city of Jenin, August 13, 2023. (Nasser Nasser/AP)

Palestinian security force kills Islamic Jihad gunman in rare internal clash

By Reuters and ToI Staff

File - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with a group of school teachers in Tehran, May 1, 2024. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s Khamenei pooh-poohs Arabs normalizing with Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Michal Tsur, co-founder of Remepy (left) and the biotech startup's board member former prime minister Naftali Bennett. (Courtesy)

Israeli startup to pioneer hybrid app–drug combinations for tailored treatment

By Sharon Wrobel

A Sinai hooktail spotted in the Arava Desert in southern Israel. (Itai Shanni)

On gossamer wingsDragonfly new to Israel discovered in kibbutz ‘bio-blitz’

Harvey Weinstein appears at Manhattan criminal court for a preliminary hearing on May 1, 2024 in New York. (David Dee Delgado/Pool Photo via AP)

Harvey Weinstein to be retried in New York after rape conviction invalidated

By Brendan Pierson and Jack Queen

The Benhamou family of Paris conducts a Passover Seder in a scene from Broadway's "Prayer for the French Republic," which was nominated for three 2024 Tony Awards. (Jeremy Daniel via JTA)

Curtains upTwo shows on antisemitism sweep 2024 Tony nominations

An El Al plane after takeoff from Ben Gurion Airport. September 7, 2014. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israeli flight to Georgia forced to turn back as passenger assaults cabin crew

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