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New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani gives brief remarks during a Veteran's Day event at Volunteers of America - Commonwealth Veterans' Residence on November 11, 2025, in the Soundview neighborhood of the Bronx borough in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/ Getty Images/ AFP)
November 12, 2025, 3:17 am
Progressive Jewish groups hit out at ADL over ‘Mamdani monitor’
Left-wing organizations claim initiative, set to track mayor-elect’s policies and personnel appointments seen as threatening to NYC Jewish community, is ‘Islamophobic and racist’
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Protesters gather for a demonstration in support of Palestinian anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil, March 10, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
March 11, 2025, 9:51 am
Liberal Jewish groups condemn arrest of Columbia anti-Israel protest leader
Groups like J Street and Zioness, which took issue with campus protests, nevertheless see Trump’s pledge to deport student activist Mahmoud Khalil as dangerous precedent
By JTA and ToI Staff
Illustrative: A family of people evacuated from Afghanistan is led through the arrival terminal at the Dulles International Airport to board a bus that will take them to a refugee processing center, in Dulles, Virginia, August 25, 2021. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
July 12, 2024, 10:00 pm
‘A manifesto on replacement theory’: GOP mass deportation plan alarms Jewish groups
Several organizations say policy appears steeped in theory which has antisemitic overtones, vow to challenge it: ‘We understand precisely where this hate and extremism can lead’
By Ron Kampeas
US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (L), Democrat of New York; US Independent Senator Bernie Sanders (C) from Vermont and US Representative Jamaal Bowman, Democrat of New York, attend a 'Get Out The Vote' rally on the weekend before the Democratic Primary in New York, June 22, 2024. (Yuki IWAMURA / AFP)
June 23, 2024, 7:56 am
Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez slam AIPAC funding of rival at Bowman rally in NYC
New York’s 16th District Congressman says opponent George Latimer and US-Israel lobby group are ‘destroying our democracy’; war on Hamas a key talking point
By Luke Tress
US Education Secretary Miguel Cardona during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
May 4, 2024, 2:27 pm
5 US Jewish orgs boycott education secretary call over presence of progressive groups
Cardona makes second antisemitism presentation after Jewish Federations of North America, ADL, Conference of Presidents refuse to attend the first one
By Ron Kampeas
Amy Spitalnick. (Courtesy via JTA)
August 11, 2022, 6:17 am
Amy Spitalnick, who fought neo-Nazis in court, to lead leftist group Bend the Arc
Activist who led organization that won $25 million settlement against far right Charlottesville rally organizers will now head progressive Jewish community group
By Andrew Lapin
Dilawar Syed, president of the software company Freshdesk, speaks during a Tech Stands Up rally outside City Hall in Palo Alto, California, March 14, 2017. (Eric Risberg/AP)
October 14, 2021, 8:18 am
US Jewish groups blasts GOP for stalling nomination of Muslim man
Republicans won’t confirm Dilawar Syed as Small Business Administration deputy chief because of agency’s payouts to abortion providers; would be highest-ranking Muslim in gov’t
By MARY CLARE JALONICK and MARIAM FAM
Dilawar Syed, president of the software company Freshdesk, speaks during a Tech Stands Up rally on Pi Day, March 14, 2017, outside City Hall in Palo Alto, California (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
August 13, 2021, 11:14 am
Jewish groups, senator rally behind Muslim Biden nominee attacked by Republicans
GOP attacks aimed at blocking Dilawar Syed’s nomination at Small Business Administration reportedly cite his membership on board of Muslim advocacy group that is critical of Israel
By Ron Kampeas
Kristen Clarke speaks remotely during Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, October 15, 2020. (Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images)
January 15, 2021, 8:12 am
Top Biden civil rights nominee regrets inviting anti-Semitic speaker to Harvard
Kristen Clarke invited Tony Martin, author of a book called ‘The Jewish Onslaught,’ to speak in 1994, drawing condemnations
By Ron Kampeas
Screen capture from video of Sen. Bernie Sanders, Independent-Vermont, speaking during the first night of the Democratic National Convention, August 17, 2020. (Democratic National Convention via AP)
October 29, 2020, 5:05 pm
At Pittsburgh memorial, Bernie Sanders warns authoritarianism rising in Israel
Vermont senator is keynote speaker at event organized by progressive Jewish advocacy group to mark 2nd anniversary of synagogue shooting that killed 11
By Ben Sales
In this January 2, 2019, file photo White House senior adviser Stephen Miller listens as US President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
November 21, 2019, 1:55 am
Jewish groups join call for ousting Stephen Miller over white supremacist views
After publication of trove of Trump adviser’s emails, many of them racist and anti-immigrant in nature, letter says he is unfit to work at White House
By JTA
US President Donald Trump takes part in the 3rd Annual Made in America Product Showcase on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, DC, on July 15. 2019. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)
July 16, 2019, 8:59 am
Jewish groups condemn Trump’s tweet targeting some Democratic congresswomen
Republican Jewish Coalition backs US president’s assertion that Ocasio-Cortez and her ‘crowd’ hate Israel, are ‘a bunch of Communists’
By Josefin Dolsten
Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota speaks at a press conference calling on Congress to cut funding for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and to defund border detention facilities, outside the US Capitol in Washington, on February 7, 2019. (Saul Loeb/AFP)
February 20, 2019, 2:18 am
Ilhan Omar apologizes to Jewish groups for hurt caused by AIPAC tweet
In a closed call with several organizations, the Minnesota Congresswoman vows to continue the dialogue and build a better relationship with the Jewish community
By JTA and ToI Staff
Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to meet France's President Emmanuel Macron after the "Tech for Good" Summit at the Elysee Palace in Paris on May 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
December 19, 2018, 9:20 am
Rights groups call for Facebook board overhaul for ‘weaponizing anti-Semitism’
32 organizations urge Zuckerberg and Sandberg to step down over campaigns against Jewish philanthropist George Soros
By Glenn Chapman
Tammy Hepps, Kate Rothstein and her daughter, Simone Rothstein, 16, pray a block away from the site of a deadly mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood on October 27, 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images/AFP)
October 27, 2018, 11:32 pm
ADL: Pittsburgh shooting likely deadliest anti-Semitic attack in US history
Jewish groups condemn shooting that left 11 dead, call for unity, and urge government to deal with threat posed by white supremacists
By ToI Staff
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