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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 617

US politics

A Kennedy MAHA booth was present at the Independent National Convention in Denver, Colorado, on Sept. 19, 2024. (Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via Getty Images/JTA); Inset: Leland Lehrman attends the Roni Willett And Walid Layadi-Marfouk Host UN General Assembly Exhibition Africa House Second Generations Closing Reception at Africa House on September 27, 2018 in New York City. (Jared Siskin/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images/JTA)
June 11, 2025, 7:17 pm
Head of RFK Jr.’s MAHA Institute believes the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are real
Social justice watchdog group finds that anti-vaxxer Leland Lehrman also believes Israel may have been behind 9/11, has said Jewish Americans are disloyal to the US
By Andrew Lapin
US President Donald Trump (left) and Elon Musk speak in the Oval Office before departing the White House in Washington, DC, on March 14, 2025. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)
June 11, 2025, 11:42 am
Musk says some of his posts about Trump ‘went too far’
Sources close to tech billionaire say he wants to repair ties with US president after public spat sparked by Musk’s labeling of spending bill as ‘disgusting abomination’
By Agencies
This combination of pictures created on June 6, 2025, shows US President Donald Trump on the phone in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on June 27, 2017. (L) Tesla CEO Elon Musk looking at his phone during the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States in the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (Nicholas Kamm and Kevin Lamarque/various sources/AFP)
June 8, 2025, 5:05 am
Trump threatens Musk with ‘serious consequences’ if he backs Democratic candidates
US president says he has no desire to speak to world’s richest man, but hasn’t thought about terminating government contracts with his various companies
By Nandita Bose
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
Then-US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks about countering antisemitism to a group of prominent Jewish supporters in Washington, on September 19, 2024. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)
May 14, 2025, 8:57 pm
Half of US Jewish voters believe Trump is antisemitic, poll finds
Survey also finds share of Jewish voters who feel attached to Israel dropped from 82% to 69% after Oct. 7, and 61% have unfavorable views of Netanyahu
By Grace Gilson
Demonstrators hold up signs during a "Hands Off!" protest against US President Donald Trump at the Washington Monument in Washington, April 5, 2025. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)
April 6, 2025, 6:13 am
‘Hands off!’: Tens of thousands of angry protesters across US assail Trump and Musk
In biggest rallies since president’s return to office, demonstrators decry administration’s policies on economy, immigration, social security, LGBTQ rights and more
By Agencies
Donald Trump and Randy Fine pose together in 2024. (Courtesy Randy Fine)
April 2, 2025, 12:39 pm
Randy Fine wins Florida race, bringing tally of Jewish Republicans in Congress to 4
Fine prevails over Democrat Josh Weil in close vote, despite receiving only fraction of opponent’s campaign donations; number of Jewish GOP congressmen ‘unprecedented’ since 1980s
By JTA and ToI Staff
Rep. Randy Fine, R-South Brevard County, closes on a gambling bill during a special session, May 19, 2021, in Tallahassee, Florida. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon)
April 2, 2025, 12:50 am
Could Randy Fine lose? In Florida, Jewish Trump favorite faces unexpectedly close race
The bombastic state senator was favored to easily win the sixth congressional district on Tuesday, but is now only a few points ahead of a Muslim opponent who’s highly critical of Israel
By Andrew Lapin
The son of Jewish parents who fled the Nazis for safe harbor in the United States, Sen. Ron Wyden shares lessons from 40-plus career in politics in a new memoir. (Grand Central Publishing via JTA)
February 6, 2025, 1:19 am
Sen. Ron Wyden says the Democrats need ‘chutzpah’ to return to power
The senior Oregon legislator’s new memoir, ‘It Takes Chutzpah,’ draws on his Jewish background to explain his approach to life and governing
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Lilly Filler (center), chair of the South Carolina Council on the Holocaust, accepts a state proclamation from Governor Henry McMaster recognizing the Holocaust during an event commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, January 27, 2025, in Columbia, South Carolina. Filler would later cut a speech by a rabbi from the broadcast. (Screenshot via YouTube/ via JTA)
February 4, 2025, 4:59 pm
South Carolina Holocaust council roils after chair truncates rabbi’s ‘political’ remarks
At least one member resigns when part of a speech attacking contemporary policies – including book bans and denying aid to refugees – is cut from a TV broadcast of a memorial event
By Andrew Lapin
US President Donald Trump takes the oath of office during the 60th presidential inauguration, in the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, January 20, 2025. (Saul Loeb/Pool photo via AP)
January 20, 2025, 11:52 pm
Trump returns to office, vowing dramatic change and promising American ‘golden age’
Calling Biden years ‘a horrible betrayal,’ returning president pledges fossil fuel development, crackdown at Mexico border, stop to government diversity programs, and end to wars
By AP and ToI Staff
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (left) Netanyahu at the Knesset, November 11, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); An exterior view of the International Criminal Court, or ICC, in The Hague, Netherlands, on April 30, 2024. (AP/Peter Dejong); Then-defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks during a press conference at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, on November 5, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 10, 2025, 12:17 am
US House votes to sanction ICC over Israel arrest warrants
Nearly all House Republicans, several Democrats back legislation punishing the ICC for going after Netanyahu and Gallant, but measure will face bumpier path through Senate
By Jacob Magid, Reuters and ToI Staff
US president Donald Trump (left) welcomes visiting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House in Washington, DC, on March 25, 2019. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
January 9, 2025, 8:35 pm
Netanyahu unlikely to attend Trump inauguration, hasn’t had official invite, aide says
Premier, who has just had surgery and whose arrest is sought by the ICC, was nonetheless previously said to be planning on attending
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
US President Joe Biden, left, greets his son Hunter Biden after addressing Americans from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, July 24, 2024, about his decision to drop his Democratic presidential reelection bid, as first lady Jill Biden watches. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)
December 2, 2024, 6:54 am
Biden pardons his son Hunter, breaking repeated public pledges not to do so
Move comes weeks before sentencing over gun and tax offenses, and after US president vowed to restore norms following Trump’s term; president-elect decries ‘miscarriage of Justice’
By Zeke Miller, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and Colleen Long
File: Then-White House senior adviser Kevin Hassett speaks as then-US president Donald Trump and others listen during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House, June 5, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
November 27, 2024, 8:00 am
Trump picks veterans from first administration as trade envoy, top economic adviser
Kevin Hassett, chosen to head up economic council, championed tax cuts in first term; president-elect charges lawyer Jamieson Greer with improving conditions for US workers
By FATIMA HUSSEIN and Josh Boak
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