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Why did it take sexual assault allegations to collapse Graham Platner’s Maine Senate campaign when the Nazi-linked tattoo was there all along — for 18 years? Posted CEO of the ADL, Jonathan Greenblatt, on X: “Leaders should not have needed another scandal to act. The Nazi tattoo should have been enough.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina who was one of Israel’s staunchest supporters in Congress, died suddenly at 71 on July 11. Graham had returned from Ukraine, where he met with Prime Minister Volodymyr Zelensky, the day before. Last month, Graham won the Republican primary in South Carolina, positioning him for a fifth Senate term in November.

Graham Platner, the anti-Israel progressive with a covered-over Nazi tattoo who took Maine’s political establishment by storm, is under intense pressure to suspend his campaign for US Senate amid allegations of sexual assault.

For the past five years, a specialty “command center” that researches anti-Semitism has been operating inside the New England Patriots’ home stadium in this Boston suburb — and tracked a rise in Hitler glorification since last February.

Israeli critics of the Iran deal should be wary of alienating President Donald Trump, particularly given their country’s dependency on US military aid, Vice President JD Vance told reporters on June 18. “Donald J. Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time,” Vance said.

FBI director Kash Patel announced on Tuesday, June 16, that the FBI disrupted a plot to use explosive-laden drones to attack the June 14 martial arts UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House and to target politicians who received donations from AIPAC.

Days after Hebrew Union College graduated its final rabbinical class in Cincinnati, a new Jewish seminary has its eyes on the school’s campus — and wants the state of Ohio to bestow the prize on them.

Sheriff’s deputy Johnny Garcia won the Democratic nomination Tuesday in Texas’ 35th Congressional District, defeating opponent Maureen Galindo following a race shaped by scrutiny over Galindo’s virulently anti-Semitic rhetoric.

The Israel parade on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue this year is slated to have a Muslim group marching alongside Jewish organizations in what is believed to be the first time in the parade’s 61-year history. It will also be the first time in memory that New York City’s mayor will not participate in the parade, which shows support for the Jewish state. 

Jewish groups denounced a May 18 fatal shooting at a mosque in San Diego in which three people, including a security guard, were killed. They are also saying the incident, which follows attacks on synagogues in Mississippi and Michigan, underscores a need for more federal funding for security at houses of worship.