🧵Since 10/7, American Jews working in professions totally unrelated to Israel have found themselves facing exclusion, erasure & litmus tests.

I investigated a wave of antisemitism that has cropped up in an unexpected place: the mental health field. 1/x
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1 \ I will start from the bottom line: Israel isn't going for an early election (for now). The bill to dissolve the Knesset, which was tabled by Benny Gantz's party, isn't really advancing any time soon

The US is close to signing a new bilateral security pact with Ukraine in a signal of support aiming to assuage Kyiv after “tense” relations that some Ukrainian officials say have hit their lowest ebb since Russia’s full-scale invasion.
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Israel has told the US that it used a precision munition to hit a target in Rafah on Sunday, but that shrapnel from the explosion ignited a fuel tank nearby and started a fire that engulfed a camp for displaced Palestinians and led to dozens of deaths, a US official told CNN.

.Mark Hertling w/ Bianna Golodryga on Memorial Day, May 27th 2024 900AM

.Secretary Antony Blinken will travel to Moldova and Czechia May 28-31 to highlight our robust bilateral relationships. In Prague, he will also participate in an informal meeting of NATO foreign ministers to discuss priorities for the NATO Washington Summit in July.

Thank you Dana Bash for having me on, and for showing your viewers these incredibly important and devastating stories.

Footage of captive female soldiers casts a dark shadow over Israel and its callous PM - Amos Harel
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BREAKING: CIA director Bill burns will travel to Europe in the next few days for a meeting with Mossad director David Barnea to try and revive Gaza hostage talks, U.S. and Israeli officials told me. Qatari and Egyptian officials might also participate in the meeting

Anthony Blinken may come to Moldova next week. This would be his second visit after March 2022, when he praised Moldovans' efforts to welcome Ukrainian refugees into the country

I could watch it with short breaks. I hear my heart racing. Unbearable. This is the mother of one of the girls from the published video.

'This cannot be a side story... this video, we agonized over having it published.'

'Is it true that some members of the [Israeli] govt refused to watch?'

'Some of them refused and said we want to sleep ok at night,' says Dr. Ayelet Levy Shachar, mother of hostage, Naama Levy.

U.S. asks Israel to reverse crackdown against AP. My story on Axios
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The EU is planning to start formal accession talks for Moldova and Ukraine on 25 June

This policy of non-attribution of Russian sabotage attacks across Europe has strong similarities to the refusal to attribute Chinese (and other) cyber espionage intrusions for many years.

Turns out the “head in the sand” strategy doesn’t make the world a safer place after all

BREAKING: Blinken: The ICC Prosecutor himself was scheduled to visit Israel as early as next week to discuss the investigation and hear from the Israeli Government. The Prosecutor’s staff was supposed to land in Israel today to coordinate the visit. Israel was informed that they

BREAKING: Biden: The ICC prosecutor’s application for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders is outrageous. And let me be clear: whatever this prosecutor might imply, there is no equivalence — none — between Israel and Hamas.  We will always stand with Israel against threats to

“‘If the current strategy is in fact to avoid attribution in cases where significant evidence points to Russia…this will only degrade deterrence and invite further attacks against critical infrastructure.’” wsj.com/world/europe/e…

ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan explains the charges against top Hamas and Israeli leadership in detail in this excerpt from his interview with Christiane Amanpour this morning at The Hague.

The world exclusive airs in full today at 1pm ET | 6pm BST on CNN International

Blinken: U.S. 'fundamentally rejects' ICC application for arrest warrants against senior Israeli officials
We reject the Prosecutor's equivalence of Israel with Hamas. It is shameful. haaretz.com/israel-news/20…