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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 626

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Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States arrive at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, March 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)
April 19, 2025, 11:41 am
US Supreme Court blocks new deportations of Venezuelans under 18th century wartime law
Trump administration expected to try to persuade justices to lift temporary order; move comes after some were sent to El Salvador and housed in notorious prison
By Nicholas Riccardi and Mark Sherman
In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, prison guards transfer deportees from the US, alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (El Salvador presidential press office via AP)
April 8, 2025, 10:28 am
US Supreme Court lets Trump pursue deportations under 1798 ‘enemy alien’ law, with limits
Dissenting justices say decision rewards administration for defying court order and sending planeloads of alleged Venezuelan gang members to notorious El Salvador prison
By Agencies
Police patrol as workers clean up anti-Israel graffiti at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus after police evicted pro-Palestinian protesters, May 2, 2024. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP)
October 24, 2024, 8:36 am
Task force says UCLA let antisemitism fester amid pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protests
Report says Jewish and Israeli students, faculty and staff were assaulted and threatened; panel says administrators should have taken more action against campus rules violations
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
California Rabbi Evon Yakar addresses the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors prior to the a vote to rescind "American Christian Heritage Month," September 19, 2023. (YouTube screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 21, 2023, 8:30 pm
US county scraps ‘American Christian Heritage Month’ after local Jewish outcry
Jewish residents of California’s El Dorado applaud cancellation of planned annual event, which critics say wrongfully promoted idea of United States as Christian country
By Sue Fishkoff
Illustrative: A man wearing a shirt promoting TikTok is seen at an Apple store in Beijing, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
February 28, 2023, 2:03 pm
White House gives US federal agencies a month to enforce TikTok ban
Private users, business owners remain unaffected; new bill effectively completely banning Chinese-owned app to be pushed by Congress amid spying concerns
By AFP
Illustrative: Anti-Israel BDS activists in New York City, May 15, 2021. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
October 21, 2022, 2:32 am
US rights group petitions Supreme Court to overturn law barring Israel boycott
ACLU says state laws outlawing boycott of Jewish state violate 1st Amendment protections, threaten right to protest
By Luke Tress and AP
FILE - Abortion-rights activist rally at the Indiana Statehouse following Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on June 25, 2022 in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/AJ Mast, File)
September 8, 2022, 11:10 pm
ACLU files suit against Indiana abortion law on behalf of Jewish group, residents
Hoosier Jews for Choice argues state ban violates their religious rights over what timeframe they believe is acceptable to carry out the procedure
By Tom Davies
The water tower in Horn Lake, Mississippi. (Wikipedia, Thomas R. Machnitzki, CC BY-SA 3.0)
November 4, 2021, 6:36 pm
ACLU alleges anti-Muslim bias prompted Mississippi city to block mosque
Suit filed in US federal court cites former alderman’s comments to local newspaper that Islam ‘says they can lie or do anything to the Jews or gentiles because we’re not Muslims’
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
Beth Israel Congregation in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has been the site of a weekly anti-Israel protest since 2003. (WIkimedia Commons via JTA)
September 16, 2021, 11:26 pm
US court says it won’t stop ‘Jewish Power Corrupts’ protests outside synagogue
Pro-Palestinian protests have occurred on weekly basis near Michigan house of worship since 2003; congregation says demonstrations interfere with worship, cause emotional distress
By Ed White
Bernard S. Cohen (Screengrab: Youtube)
October 15, 2020, 9:04 am
Bernard Cohen, who brought Loving v. Virginia to the Supreme Court, dies at 86
Son of Jewish-immigrant parents, Cohen volunteered with the ACLU, eventually winning landmark case overturning anti-miscegenation laws
By Ron Kampeas
Ira Glasser speaks in this still from 'Mighty Ira.' (Courtesy)
October 2, 2020, 3:22 am
Film explores why a Jewish former ACLU head defended Nazis’ right to free speech
In ‘Mighty Ira,’ streaming Oct. 9, activist lawyer sticks to his guns about Skokie march, a defining moment of his 34-year career — and befriends a Holocaust survivor who opposed
By Jordan Hoffman
Israeli startup AnyVision uses artificial intelligence to recognize faces, bodies and objects for security and other purposes. (YouTube screenshot)
July 2, 2020, 4:37 pm
Bias claims spur debate on need for curbs, oversight of facial recognition tech
Official at Israeli startup AnyVision says he hopes for regulation of the industry because his firm’s software could never be abused, unlike open-source platforms
By Shoshanna Solomon
llustrative: A security officer at the State House in Augusta, Maine, July 13, 2011. (AP/Pat Wellenbach)
May 16, 2020, 6:38 am
Maine trooper claims police illegally surveilled US camp for Israeli, Arab teens
Whistleblower in federal suit alleges law enforcement overstepped by monitoring, storing information on gun buyers and protesters, as well as staffers at Seeds of Peace summer camp
By David Sharp
A screen capture from a Fox 19 Now report on a Kentucky man's request for an 'IM GOD' vanity license plate. (Screen capture: YouTube)
November 14, 2019, 5:01 pm
US court okays Kentucky man’s ‘IM GOD’ license plate
Judge rules engraving is speech protected by First Amendment, says state violated atheist Ben Hart’s rights by denying his request
By AP
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos listens during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, July 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
September 28, 2019, 2:48 am
US is urged to end probe of Middle East studies program
Education Department says Duke University curriculum focuses too much on ‘positive aspects of Islam,’ disregards Judaism, Christianity
By Collin Binkley
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