Luke Tress
By Luke Tress
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Fast Forward Despite string of pro-Palestinian statements, CUNY faculty union rejects Israel boycott
he Professional Staff Congress’ delegate assembly rejected a wide-ranging anti-Israel measure by a vote of 117 to 40
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Fast Forward Man charged with hate crimes after driving car at Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn
The incident in Canarsie came as antisemitism has spiked in New York City, and drew condemnation from Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul
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Fast Forward While receiving an award at Yeshiva University commencement, John Fetterman disavows his alma mater, Harvard
The senator said he was 'profoundly disappointed' by 'Harvard’s inability to stand up for the Jewish community after Oct. 7'
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Fast Forward NYC deputy mayor charges Washington Post with antisemitism
He said the newspaper's article on Jewish billionaires includes an 'all too familiar antisemitic trope' about Jewish wealth and power
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Fast Forward CUNY college cancels Hillel Yom HaZikaron event due to protests
Kingsborough Community College says it canceled Jewish club’s event out of an ‘abundance of caution’; Jewish professor ‘saddened and dismayed’ by the decision
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Fast Forward Jamaal Bowman says AIPAC funders want to ‘destroy our democracy’ in debate with primary challenger George Latimer
Latimer also took shots at Bowman, accusing him of taking a one-sided 'anti-Israel approach.'
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Fast Forward 16 Republican senators demand IRS investigate fiscal sponsor of Students for Justice in Palestine
Wespac, based in suburban New York City, also sponsors other pro-Palestinian groups
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Fast Forward 3 people, including local rabbi and developer Reuven Kahane, arrested in altercation at pro-Palestinian protest
Kahane is a relative of Meir Kahane, an extremist rabbi from New York who led the Jewish Defense League and was later barred from the Israeli Knesset for racism.
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