Polling Reveals Americans' Widespread, Bipartisan Support for Israel - Douglas Schoen and Carly Cooperman (The Hill)
    New polling by the public opinion company Schoen Cooperman Research, conducted on behalf of the Israel on Campus Coalition, indicates that solid majorities of Republicans, Democrats and independents want the U.S. to continue supporting Israel.
    Due to the widespread bipartisan support for Israel, Americans widely believe that Israel must be able to take whatever measures are necessary to eliminate terror and that Hamas must not be allowed to govern Gaza following the war.
    57% felt that a final deal should require Hamas's removal from power, while only 10% believed that Hamas should be allowed to continue ruling Gaza.
    56% of Americans support and 19% oppose Israel resuming its military campaign in Gaza to remove Hamas, should Hamas violate the ceasefire deal.
    The data suggest that the anti-Israel protests that have erupted in American cities and on campuses since the war began do not align with the true mood of the American people.
    Moreover, 76% of Republicans, 57% of independents, and 53% of Democrats agree that "the U.S. should remain a steadfast ally of Israel and fully support it in a war with Iran."

Senate Democrats Block International Criminal Court Sanctions Bill - Laura Kelly (The Hill)
    Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked Republicans from advancing legislation to sanction the International Criminal Court.
    Republicans failed to get the 60 votes needed to move the bill forward, with the final tally 54 to 45 in favor. Sen. John Fetterman (Pa.) was the only Democrat who voted to advance the measure.
    Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Democrats sought a compromise to shield America's allies and U.S. companies contracting with the court.
    The House of Representatives had passed legislation earlier this month that would impose sanctions on ICC officials, entities and individuals supporting the court in retaliation for the court's pursuit of investigations against Israel for war crimes.

Video: Meet the New Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., Dr. Yechiel Leiter (Embassy of Israel in the U.S.)
    I was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and moved to Israel when I was 18.
    The United States stands for those values that we have advanced throughout Jewish history.
    So we are advancing those goals, and to do so, together with the United States, is to ensure our success.
    Israel stands at the forefront of a battle of good against evil. And yes, we are saying there is such a thing as evil and we are going to fight it.
    Israel is the outpost of American values and American interests in the Middle East.
    We are, together, improving humanity. And as an Israeli, as a Jew, there can be nothing more important than that.
    Fixing the world is what we're all about. If we can't get up in the morning and fix the world, then what are we doing here? And we have much work to do.

Russia Is Giving Iran S-400 Missile Batteries. Should Israel Be Worried? - Brandon J. Weichert (National Interest)
    Russia has gifted Iran multiple S-400 air defense batteries. Last year, the Israeli Air Force obliterated Iran's Russian-built S-300 air defense batteries.
    The S-400 is believed to be capable of shooting down advanced warplanes - including Israel's F-35s.
    While the S-400 can get a weapons lock on incoming F-35s at around 20-30 miles out, the likelihood is that the planes will have already fired their own missiles at the S-400 site.
    Specifically, F-35s can target S-400 sites at 60 miles out, at least 30 miles before the S-400 can target the F-35.
    While the Iranians can certainly deploy systems that could complicate the American and Israeli attempt to devastate Iran, the systems used by Israel and/or the U.S. would likely overcome the Iranian threats to them.
    If Iran makes it known that they have a working nuclear weapons arsenal, that will merely precipitate the very Israeli and American attack Tehran is trying to avoid.

U.S. to Cancel Student Visas of Pro-Palestinian Protesters - Andrea Shalal (Reuters)
    President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to combat antisemitism and pledged to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests, a White House official said.
    A fact sheet on the order promises "immediate action" by the Justice Department to prosecute "terroristic threats, arson, vandalism and violence against American Jews" and marshal all federal resources to combat "the explosion of antisemitism on our campuses and streets" since Oct. 7, 2023.
    "To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you," Trump said.
    "I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before."

From Tehran to Columbia: Inside America's Student Intifada (Canary Mission)
    This report shows how foreign terror organizations - all proxies of Iran - and their American affiliates transformed Columbia University into a gateway hub for Hamas activism in the U.S.
    Since its inception in 2010, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) has unfalteringly echoed the goals of Hamas's founding charter, which calls on its supporters to take all of "Palestine" from the Jews and destroy the State of Israel.

King Charles Attends Auschwitz Liberation Commemoration - Editorial (Daily Mail-UK)
    One of the most troubling developments since Hamas's horrific incursion into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, has been the willingness among some quarters to blame the victims.
    They either do not care, or choose to forget, that the terrorist group has sworn to erase Israel from the map.
    For some misguided agitators, antisemitism has become a badge of honor, despite the lessons of the Holocaust.
    King Charles, who decided to make a personal pilgrimage for the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation - the first British monarch to do so, noted in his speech that the world had seen a "dangerous re-emergence" of antisemitism.
    He has spent years quietly working with concentration camp survivors to help ensure their testimony continues to be heard.

UK Library Releases Massive Holocaust Archive Online (AFP)
    One of the world's largest Holocaust archives was published online for the first time Monday, coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
    The Wiener Holocaust Library's new online portal includes more than 150,000 documents - such as photos, transcripts and testimonies - detailing Nazi Germany's genocide of six million European Jews.
    The items include photographs of Auschwitz, the notorious Nazi death camp in Poland where more than one million Jews died between 1940 and 1945.
    Documents from the Nuremberg war crimes trials of Nazi leaders and materials about fascist and anti-fascist groups in the United Kingdom before and after World War II feature in the collection as well.
    The Wiener Holocaust Library was founded in 1933 by Alfred Wiener, who gathered evidence of the persecution of Jews in Germany after fleeing the country.
    See also The Wiener Holocaust Library Digital Collections (Wiener Holocaust Library)