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Melber said he was reminded of the Seinfeld episode where Jerry wondered if his dentist “converted to Judaism for the jokes.”

The event took place in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Hearing Room, a committee chaired by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

McCarthy tweeted on May 9 that in place of the Nakba Day event, he “will host a bipartisan discussion to honor the 75th anniversary of the US-Israel relationship.”

The event, titled “Nakba 75 & the Palestinian People,” lists several anti-Israel groups as organizers.

Student Sabrina Goldfischer told the Journal that it was “shocking” for her to learn “the amount of the brunt of antisemitism and anti-Israeli discrimination that the Israeli community on campus has to bear.”

The Yom HaZikaron ceremony was hosted by Masa Israel Journey.

A swastika was reportedly carved on the back of a nonverbal autistic Jewish student in Las Vegas on March 9.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said during an April 20 press conference that he does not share his uncle’s “controversial views” after being asked about a recently unearthed op-ed in which he defended his uncle and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

“Texas’s anti-boycott law is both constitutional and, unfortunately, increasingly necessary as the radical left becomes increasingly hostile and antagonistic toward Israel.” – Attorney General Ken Paxton

Even as the estimated number of Jewish children in the United States rose by 17% between 2000 and 2020, enrollment in Hebrew schools fell by at least 45% between 2006 and 2020, according to the report by the Jewish Education Project.