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After a U.S. fighter jet went down over Iran, the search is still underway for one missing crew member after the other was rescued alive, according to Axios. The report also says Iran is hunting for the crew and has offered rewards to civilians who find them.
American service-members are now directly in harm’s way in the fight against one of the world’s most dangerous regimes. We stand with the U.S. forces risking everything in the face of the Islamic Republic’s aggression.
A federal judge just ordered UPenn to comply with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) subpoena in its antisemitism investigation. According to Reuters, the subpoena seeks information about Jewish faculty, staff, and students who may have faced discrimination or harassment, as the agency examines whether Penn violated federal employment law by failing to respond properly to anti-Jewish hostility on campus.
Campuses do not get to evade scrutiny when Jewish members of their communities say they were failed. If institutions claim to be protecting all students, they must also be willing to answer for how they handle antisemitism.
During Passover, Hezbollah rockets struck a daycare in Nahariya. No injuries were reported, thankfully, but a daycare was still hit. A children’s facility was still caught in a terrorist rocket attack launched by Hezbollah.
This is what Iran’s proxy war looks like in real life. Rockets targeted directly at civilian infrastructure, including children’s spaces. The continued silence of so much of the international community is disgraceful.
From everyone at Maccabee Task Force, we’re wishing you a Passover filled with hope, love, and family.
May a true freedom for the Jewish people, the Iranian people, and every minority targeted by the regime’s terrorism and hateful ideologies come soon.
Freedom from hate means a freedom to love. 💐🌷
🚨 BREAKING: Iraqi officials say American journalist Shelly Kittleson was kidnapped in Baghdad today.
Authorities have arrested one suspect and say operations are underway to secure her release.
The climate of lawlessness, militia power, and regional extremism continues to endanger civilization.
Six suspects have now been indicted by federal prosecutors on hate crime and obstruction charges after perpetrating a 2024 antisemitic attack on a Jewish University of Pittsburgh student.
The DOJ says the victim was attacked in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood because of his religion, and that some of the defendants later tried to obstruct the investigation.
This is an important reminder that antisemitic violence is not “just campus tension” or “heated rhetoric.” When Jewish students are targeted for being visibly Jewish, it is a federal civil rights issue and a criminal act. Accountability matters.
STILL UNDER ATTACK: vehicles in Tel Aviv were set ablaze by falling cluster munitions fired by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Reuters footage has documented Iranian cluster munition impacts and damage in central Israel, while Human Rights Watch says these weapons are inherently indiscriminate and that Iran’s repeated use of them may amount to war crimes. These are weapons designed to scatter danger over wide civilian areas.
In the case of Iranian ballistic missile attack against Israel as well as many of the Arab countries in the region, civilians are the ones forced to live with the constant missile attacks, the shrapnel, and the terror.
The FBI has now officially confirmed that the Michigan synagogue attacker was carrying out a Hezbollah-inspired act of terrorism. Federal investigators say the attacker who targeted Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, intended to kill Jewish people and had consumed Hezbollah propaganda. He was also the brother of a Hezbollah operative who was killed in Israeli strikes against the terror organization, a fact which some aimed to use as an excuse for the terror attack.
This is exactly why antisemitic terror must be treated as the national security threat it is. A synagogue was targeted, Jewish families were put in danger, and Hezbollah’s ideology has reached all the way into an American community, and this is not the only one.
