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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 616

Richard Blumenthal

Anti-Israel demonstrators gather on Cambridge Common to protest Harvard's stance on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and show support for the Palestinian people, outside Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 25, 2025. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP)
April 26, 2025, 6:08 am
Jewish senators accuse Trump of using antisemitism as ‘guise’ to attack US universities
Group of five Democrats led by Chuck Schumer say US president seems to be ‘using what is a real crisis as a pretext to attack people and institutions who do not agree with you’
By Grace Gilson
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, center, speaks to journalists at a press conference with GOP Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa, left, and Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, as part of a bipartisan US Senate delegation during their visit to Israel, in Tel Aviv, February 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
February 18, 2025, 3:11 am
In Israel, US senators dismiss Trump’s Gaza plan, expect alternative from Arab states
Trump ally Lindsey Graham says US president ‘started a discussion that was long overdue’ but sees little appetite for proposal, which Democratic senator calls a ‘non-starter’
By Reuters
Left to Right: US House Speaker Mike Johnson, at Trump National Doral Miami in Doral, Florida, January 27, 2025 (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein); Dutch politician Geert Wilders,at the high security court at Schiphol, near Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 2, 2024 (AP Photo/Peter Dejong); US Senator Chris Coons speaks during the Democratic National Convention, August 19, 2024 in Chicago. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
February 5, 2025, 12:03 pm
‘He’s lost it’: Trump call to take over Gaza blasted by Democrats, boosted by loyalists
US president’s domestic opposition condemns plan as ‘ethnic cleansing by another name’; Dutch far-right leader Wilders praises idea, says Gazans can ‘move to Jordan’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike on the southern Lebanese village of Khiam near the border with Israel on February 21, 2024. (Rabih DAHER / AFP)
February 22, 2024, 2:02 am
US senators: Truce in Gaza could pave way for Israel and Hezbollah ‘to de-escalate’
Democratic lawmakers Chris Coons and Richard Blumenthal say coming weeks crucial for region, stress ‘urgency’ of diplomatic solution
By Reuters and ToI Staff
US Senator Lindsey Graham speaks at a press conference alongside nine other US senators at a hotel in Tel Aviv on October 22, 2023. (Screenshot)
October 22, 2023, 11:03 pm
Visiting US senators: Hamas must be destroyed, war was opened to prevent Saudi peace
Lawmakers warn Tehran that Gaza war will reach its doorstep if Hezbollah attacks, look ahead to regional peace after Israeli victory
By Lazar Berman
US President Joe Biden, center, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, left, talk to reporters before a lunch with Senate Democrats on his budget and political agenda, at the Capitol in Washington, March 2, 2023. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
August 18, 2023, 12:29 am
White House said briefing top Democrats on Saudi-Israel normalization talks
Meetings part of tacit effort to rally support for deal, keeping lawmakers in the loop regarding negotiations
By Jacob Magid
Facebook Global Head of Safety Director, Antigone Davis, testifies remotely before a hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security to examine protecting children online, focusing on Facebook, Instagram, and mental health harms, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, September 30, 2021. (Tom Brenner / POOL / AFP)
October 1, 2021, 8:15 am
US lawmakers grill Facebook on Instagram’s negative impact on teen mental health
Senators question company rep. over damning reports that social media giant’s own ‘bombshell’ research warned of harm photo-sharing app can do to teenage girls’ well-being
By Joshua MELVIN
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-C.T., center, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., right, and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-C.T., hold a press conference at the military airbase in Beirut airport, Lebanon, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. A delegation of four U.S. senators visiting Lebanon promised to work on easing Lebanon's crippling economic crisis. They later traveled to Israel and Tunisia. (AP Photo/ Hassan Ammar)
September 11, 2021, 1:34 am
‘PA not strong enough to lead Gaza reconstruction,’ US senator says after visit
Chris Murphy says he raised US objection to terror stipends with PA premier, discussed possible path forward on issue; Democratic lawmakers express optimism after Bennett meeting
By Jacob Magid
The US consulate on Agron Street in Jerusalem. (CC BY-SA, Magister/Wikimedia)
September 4, 2021, 3:37 am
Visiting Democrats push for reopening US consulate in Jerusalem
Issue shaping up to become a point of conflict between Washington and Jerusalem, with Biden apparently determined to reverse the Trump move
By Jacob Magid
Senator Cory Booker speaks during a news conference in Hoboken, New Jersey, May 6, 2021. (Seth Wenig/AP)
June 3, 2021, 1:42 pm
US Sen. Booker launches new group of Black, Jewish senators against antisemitism
Black-Jewish coalition will include fellow Democrats Warnock and Blumenthal, also Republican Tim Scott; idea spurred by reports of rising anti-Jewish incidents
By Asaf Shalev
Illustrative: The messaging app Telegram is displayed on a smartphone. (AP Photo)
September 20, 2019, 11:57 pm
Suspected US neo-Nazis compiling names of Jews on Telegram app
List said to include both prominent and lesser known Jewish people who have criticized white supremacism, misogyny
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., makes a phone call just off the Senate floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
February 22, 2019, 6:14 am
Chuck Schumer among Democratic lawmakers on Coast Guard officer’s hit list
White Nationalist Christopher Paul Hasson held on domestic terrorism charges, intended to target prominent politicians and media figures
By Marcy Oster
Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker gestures, after speaking at the Department of Justice's Annual Veterans Appreciation Day Ceremony, November 15, 2018, at the Justice Department in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/ Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
November 19, 2018, 11:10 pm
Democratic senators sue over Trump attorney general appointment
Lawmakers ask federal judge to remove Matt Whitaker, say appointment without Senate confirmation unconstitutional
By Eric Tucker and MICHAEL BALSAMO
Sebastian Gorka, center, at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., Feb. 24, 2017. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
August 23, 2017, 6:34 pm
Democrat senators press White House on whether Gorka being probed
Durbin, Cardin and Blumethal ask if the senior security adviser concealed membership in anti-Semitic group when becoming a US citizen
By JTA
US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting to urge passage of bills to enforce federal laws on immigration in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, DC, on June 28, 2017. (Nicholas/AFP)
August 7, 2017, 4:42 pm
Trump lashes senator as liar, fraud in tweetstorm
US president calls Richard Blumenthal ‘a phony Vietnam con artist’ after calls for special investigation into collusion with Russia
By ToI Staff
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