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• As graduation season begins, U.S. universities crack down on anti-Israel student speeches

  Haaretz - 19:35 May 19, 2025
  

  This marks the second time in a week a student has faced institutional scrutiny for commencement remarks on Gaza: NYU is withholding the diploma of a student who also criticized Israel during his graduation speech

  Tags: Israel

• U.K., France, Canada threaten response to Israel's 'disproportionate' Gaza offensive

  Haaretz - 18:40 May 19, 2025
  

  In one of the most serious condemnations of Israel's war from these countries, the leaders wrote that the denial of aid to Gazans 'risks breaching international humanitarian law' ■ A source told the Washington Post that 'Trump's people are letting Israel know, "We will abandon you if you do not end this war"

  Tags: Israel's

• Court extends arrest of Standing Together director, six others over anti-war protest

  Haaretz - 18:28 May 19, 2025
  

  Protesters were arrested Sunday during a march near the Gaza border. Standing Together called the move a double standard: 'Peaceful demonstrators are dragged before the courts, but right-wing extremists enter Gaza illegally'

  Tags: Standing Together

• Five aid trucks enter Gaza, IDF says, ending over two months of blockade

  Haaretz - 18:14 May 19, 2025
  

  The trucks are the first to enter the Gaza Strip since the crossings were closed in early March. The aid plan still faces criticism: 'Each distribution center will serve 460,000 people, the entire population of Tel Aviv,' a Western diplomat said

• One day, three diaries from the brink of famine in Gaza, where even rotten food 'feels like a victory'

  Haaretz - 17:37 May 19, 2025
  

  Israa wakes up at dawn to stand in line for water. Sarah comforts her orphaned nephews. Yousef's father secures two bags of vegetables for $28. This is what Gazans' daily quest for survival is like, in their own words and images

• 'I've met families of missing soldiers from 1948 – the wound never heals'

  Haaretz - 17:00 May 19, 2025
  

  Gur Alroey, a historian and reservist who spent years solving cases of missing soldiers, understands the importance of laying people to rest. 'Without bringing home the remaining hostages, our society will not be able to recover'

• Spain's prime minister calls for Eurovision to ban Israel, the first European leader to do so

  Haaretz - 16:56 May 19, 2025
  

  Pedro Sánchez, who called Israel a 'genocide state,' joined his country's broadcaster in demanding a discussion on its participation in the contest. This marks him as the first European leader to call for Israel's removal

  Tags: Israel European

• The far-right German party AfD says it has nothing against Jews. This book proves otherwise

  Haaretz - 16:42 May 19, 2025
  

  In 'Antisemitism and the AfD,' Stefan Dietl lays out evidence showing how Germany's far-right party is infested with Jew haters. In an interview with Haaretz, he argues that antisemitism is 'central to their ideology'

• Asked to burn forest, recruit friends: Israeli teen charged with aiding Iranian agent for payment

  Haaretz - 15:08 May 19, 2025
  

  Israel's State Prosecution says a teen from southern Israel was recruited via Telegram by an Iranian agent and charged with printing inciting posters, sharing crypto ATM locations, and tracking sites countywide

  Tags: Iranian

• World Jewish Congress president applauds Trump for withholding funds from elite U.S. universities

  Haaretz - 15:03 May 19, 2025
  

  The World Jewish Congress president, lauding Trump's 'courage' in threatening funding to U.S. universities, struck a completely different tone from the American Jewish Committee, which earlier this month warned of the dangers of the administration's policy

• Netanyahu and his government gambled on Romania's antisemitic far right and lost big time

  Haaretz - 14:45 May 19, 2025
  

  Likud ministers Eli Cohen and Amichai Chikli were both accused of interfering in Romania's internal affairs by bolstering the country's far-right party, which has a history of Holocaust denial, but was defeated in Sunday's presidential election

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• Israel's army is calling up PTSD patients for reserve duty in Gaza. At least two have killed themselves

  Haaretz - 14:08 May 19, 2025
  

  Sources say the Israeli military is loath to test soldiers' mental state, fearing that there will be no one left to fight Hamas. 'From the outside, I seem 100 percent okay, but I'm mentally amputated,' one reservist says

• Ryanair CEO says airline is 'losing patience' with Israel, may cut Tel Aviv routes

  Haaretz - 14:06 May 19, 2025
  

  Ryanair halted flights to Ben Gurion Airport after the Houthi missile strike. In a call with analysts, the CEO said: 'If these security disruptions continue, we'd be better off sending our aircraft elsewhere in Europe'

  Tags: Ryanair

• BBC's Gary Lineker to step down after apology for sharing antisemitic content

  Haaretz - 12:49 May 19, 2025
  

  The long-time host faced accusations of antisemitism after sharing an Instagram story on Zionism that included an image of a rat. 'I take full responsibility for the mistake,' Lineker said. "I would never knowingly share anything antisemitic'

• 'Blood on your hands': Detailing captivity horrors, freed hostage Arbel Yehoud urges Israeli lawmakers to end Gaza war

  Haaretz - 11:27 May 19, 2025
  

  Yehoud, freed after 482 days in captivity, called her Knesset appearance an 'act of desperation.' She said she was beaten and isolated after her captors' relatives died in Israeli strikes. Her partner Ariel Cunio and his brother David remain in Gaza

  Tags: Gaza Israeli

• 'We're destroying Gaza': Netanyahu, Smotrich rush to soothe right's fears over aid renewal

  Haaretz - 11:22 May 19, 2025
  

  Facing right-wing backlash over aid to Gaza, Netanyahu said the move responds to international pressure to 'avoid famine for practical and diplomatic reasons.' Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich declared Israel is 'destroying everything left in the Gaza Strip'

  Tags: Netanyahu

• 'Turning point?' Why those pinning hopes on Israel's killing of Hamas Gaza leaders may be mistaken

  Haaretz - 10:48 May 19, 2025
  

  The reported death of Hamas Gaza chief Mohammed Sinwar, brother of Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar, may be symbolic, but experience shows otherwise. Meanwhile, Israeli hostages risk paying the price of their country's major offensive

  Tags: Hamas Gaza

• Rift between Ben-Gvir and police commissioner paralyzes police spokesmanship

  Haaretz - 10:10 May 19, 2025
  

  Disputes between the two include the appointment of a director for the Police Spokesperson's Unit. 'It's a key position, and they realize what it might mean to appoint someone close to them,' one officer said

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  Haaretz - 09:47 May 19, 2025
  

• 'Heartless, and has a 'Jewish' gait': Surveillance files on Menachem Begin are made public

  Haaretz - 09:46 May 19, 2025
  

  'Whatever his attire, his clothes are never neat, and his hair is never combed. He is very sloppy in this regard': An investigation issued by the Haganah's intelligence service offers a peek into how the Irgun underground commander was perceived before becoming Israel's Prime Minister

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