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US Rep. Elise Stefanik speaks at ADL's 'Never Is Now' summit at the Javits Center on March 3, 2025, in New York City. (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Anti-Defamation League/AFP)
December 20, 2025, 5:02 am
Trump ally Elise Stefanik drops run for New York governor, will leave Congress
GOP lawmaker who grilled university heads on antisemitism says she wants to focus on raising her son; Trump praises her ‘tremendous talent’
By Luke Tress and Reuters
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, at podium, speaks during a news conference in Mineola, New York, March 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Philip Marcelo, File)
December 10, 2025, 4:59 am
Jewish Trump ally enters NY gubernatorial race, setting up primary against Stefanik
Bruce Blakeman of Long Island, who last year signed mask ban into law amid anti-Israel protests, launches campaign with video linking incumbent governor to ‘communist and antisemitic’ Mamdani
By Joseph Strauss
US Representative Elise Stefanik, a New York Republican, questions university leaders during a House Committee on Education and Workforce Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC, July 15, 2025. (AP/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
November 8, 2025, 3:58 am
Trump ally Stefanik launches bid for NY governor, blasts Mamdami as ‘antisemitic communist’
Video declaring US House member’s campaign notes her questioning of college presidents over campus antisemitism, as she looks to bolster her profile as a supporter of American Jews
By Andrew Lapin
Peter Giunta, former leader of the New York State Young Republicans, gives a TV interview in September 2025. (Screenshot)
October 16, 2025, 7:15 pm
‘To the gas chamber’: Young Republicans members exposed for antisemitic, racist chat
Publication of messages has led some to be fired or job offers pulled, although Vice President JD Vance dismisses controversy, saying people should ‘focus on the real issues’
By Luke Tress and ToI Staff
Former New York State governor Andrew Cuomo at Israel Day on 5th, May 18, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
September 16, 2025, 4:19 am
In tone shift, pro-Israel NYC mayoral candidate Cuomo says Gaza ‘carnage’ must end
Ex-governor pans ‘horrific’ war as he seeks to catch up to Israel-critic Mamdani before subsequently clarifying that he remains ‘proud Israel supporter’ whose stance hasn’t changed
By Luke Tress
Christine Toretti, left, nominee for U.S. Ambassador to Sweden, listens as former White House National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, testifies during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee nomination hearing on his nomination to be US Representative to the United Nations, Tuesday, July 15, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
July 16, 2025, 4:24 am
Trump’s pick for UN ambassador says he’ll work to dismantle UNRWA if confirmed
Ousted White House national security adviser Mike Waltz points to UN’s disproportionate focus on Israel as he blasts ‘pervasive antisemitism’ at international body
By Jacob Magid
Elise Stefanik speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), February 22, 2025, in Oxon Hill, Maryland. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
May 22, 2025, 3:04 pm
Yeshiva University faculty members sign letter decrying Elise Stefanik graduation honor
Nearly 50 signatories slam congresswoman’s record, including her support for claim that Trump won the 2020 election and endorsement of a conspiracy theory with antisemitic roots
By Grace Gilson
Wendy Raymond, president of Haverford College, testifies before the House Committee on Education and Workforce hearing on antisemitism on American campuses onCapitol Hill in Washington, May 7, 2025. (Jose Luis Magana/AP)
May 8, 2025, 10:48 am
GOP lawmakers berate Haverford College chief for silence on antisemitism discipline
At congressional hearing, school president Wendy Raymond declines to detail punishments for students and faculty accused of anti-Jewish bias; some lawmakers threaten funding cuts
By AP and ToI Staff
Then-Republican presidential candidate, US President Donald Trump, right, greets David Friedman, who served as his ambassador to Israel, at the National Religious Broadcasters convention at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center on February 22, 2024, in Nashville, Tennessee. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
April 1, 2025, 3:38 pm
Trump says former Israel envoy Friedman, 30 others interested in UN envoy vacancy
Nomination of Rep. Elise Stefanik, who made headlines with antisemitism hearings, was pulled to preserve Republican majority in US House
By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff
Rep. Elise Stefanik, US President Donald Trump's nominee to be the United Nations ambassador, testifies during a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing for her pending confirmation on Capitol Hill, January 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
March 27, 2025, 10:47 pm
Trump pulls Stefanik’s nomination for UN envoy due to GOP’s slim House majority
US president says there ‘are others that can do a good job at the United Nations,’ but doesn’t yet name a replacement for vocally pro-Israel candidate
By Jacob Magid and Agencies
US Rep. Elise Stefanik speaks at ADL's 'Never Is Now' summit at the Javits Center on March 3, 2025, in New York City. (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Anti-Defamation League/AFP)
March 4, 2025, 5:36 am
Stefanik booed at ADL summit for claiming Oct. 7 wouldn’t have happened under Trump
Nominee for US envoy to UN mostly applauded as she warns that ‘the antisemites at the United Nations better buckle up,’ pledges further crackdown on campus antisemitism
By Luke Tress and JTA
US Representative Elise Stefanik, a Republican from New York, testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on her nomination to be ambassador to the United Nations, on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 21, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP)
January 22, 2025, 6:48 am
Trump nominee vows to combat ‘antisemitic rot’ at UN, slams UNRWA’s ‘terrorist ties’
Touting her grilling of university heads over campus antisemitism, Elise Stefanik vows to take similar approach at UN; also says Israel has biblical right to entire West Bank
By Jacob Magid and JTA
Republican US presidential candidate former president Donald Trump, center, and Rep. Elise Stefanik, left, listen as former Rep. Lee Zeldin speaks at a campaign event in Concord, New Hampshire, January 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
November 27, 2024, 11:39 pm
Trump appointees targeted by bomb threats, including with pro-Palestinian messaging
Lee Zeldin says his home was sent a pipe bomb with ‘pro-Palestinian themed message,’ as threats and swatting attacks target Stefanik, Gaetz and others; FBI probing
By AP
Republican presidential candidate former US president Donald Trump (right) and Rep. Elise Stefanik at a campaign event in Concord, New Hampshire, Jan. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
November 11, 2024, 2:32 pm
Trump picks Elise Stefanik, leading voice against campus antisemitism, as UN envoy
NY Republican made headlines with questioning of university presidents; US president-elect brings back hardline immigration official Tom Homan to oversee borders
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana and New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik in the Knesset on May 19, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)
May 19, 2024, 5:31 pm
At Knesset, GOP lawmaker warns Oct. 7 ‘could happen in US’ if Israel not victorious
Addressing MKs, Elise Stefanik slams Biden’s decision to pause arms shipment over Rafah op, praises Trump’s ‘historic support’ for Israel
By Sam Sokol
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