Mamdani’s anti-Israel obsession is key to his rise; Gazan ‘monster’ who took part in Oct. 7 attack caught ‘hiding’ in Louisiana, says Justice Department; Fifty years since the UN’s ‘Zionism is racism’ resolution

 

The Daily Syndicate   Friday, October 17, 2025

from the editor-in-chief     Jonathan S. Tobin   Mamdani’s anti-Israel obsession is key to his rise   With his election as mayor of New York increasingly likely, the Democratic candidate is willing to finesse every issue except his opposition to the existence of a Jewish state.       Gazan ‘monster’ who took part in Oct. 7 attack caught ‘hiding’ in Louisiana, says Justice Department     JNS Staff       Day after dodging question on ‘Fox,’ Mamdani says in mayoral debate, ‘of course’ Hamas must disarm           Witkoff ‘confident’ that all hostages will return from Gaza Strip     Andrew Bernard       Two years’ probation for SF attacker slammed as ‘far too lenient for antisemitic gang attack’     Aaron Bandler             featured column     Ben Cohen   Fifty years since the UN’s ‘Zionism is racism’ resolution               jns tv     Aylana Meisel   The difficult conversation we’re not having about hostage deals (guest Shlomo Brody)             latest news         Massachusetts Democrat gears up for Senate race by rejecting AIPAC   Mike Wagenheim       Portland city councilors call for arms ban, boycott of ‘genocidal’ Israel         Man arrested, accused of hate crime for allegedly assaulting 71-year-old Jew in Seattle   Aaron Bandler       Trump threatens to ‘kill’ Hamas if Gaza executions continue         US focused at ‘highest levels’ on getting hostage bodies to Israel, envoy says         US Jews hiding religious identity, don’t feel safe, per ‘Washington Post’ poll         Latin American Forum on Antisemitism focuses on collective action   Mike Wagenheim       Israel hosts British anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson   Canaan Lidor       Freed hostage Emily Damari slams UK ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans   David Wiseman       Israel’s deputy FM: Turkey and Qatar hold the key to peace in Gaza   Etgar Lefkovits       From coastal defense to maritime reach: The transformation of the Israeli Navy   Shimon Sherman       ‘US defense pact gives terror-sponsoring Qatar an insurance policy’   Yaakov Lappin       World WIZO mourns honorary life president, Tova Ben-Dov   Rolene Marks       US evangelical leader calls to ‘shut down’ Owens and Carlson   Etgar Lefkovits               latest opinion         National SJP hails Hamas’s ‘Death to collaborators’ campaign   Morton A. Klein       The ‘day after’   Daniel Rosen       A Manhattan Project for pro-Israel advocacy at the state and local level   John Mirisch       Conferences must not be permitted to discriminate against Israeli scholars   Rory Lancman       Efrat Nursi doesn’t feel like Oct. 7 is behind her: ‘I’m still in it’   Rabbi Chaim Goldberg       Sinwar’s legacy of terror: A handwritten blueprint for worldwide jihad   Ronen Itsik       Yom Kippur deadly attack in England was long in the making   Kamal Alam       How journalism died in Gaza   Masha Gabriel             press release     Jubilation: The return from Gaza of Israel’s living hostages     The Focus Project

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