Photo credit: wolpalestine.com After the New York State attorney general probed the far-right Jewish group Betar, a US Jewish legal group demands investigations into anti-Zionist activist groups. Attorney General Letitia James announced a settlement in an investigation into Betar on Tuesday. She said the group had harassed people due to their Arab, Muslim and Jewish identities, had agreed to halt those activities, and would be ceasing operations in New York. In a letter to Ja

Office of Representative Jim McGovern/ Wikimedia Commons In a major win for the Trump administration, a federal appeals court ended a Biden-appointed district judge’s blockade on the deportation of a pro-Hamas foreign activist on Thursday. In a 2-1 ruling , a panel for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals vacated orders from New Jersey-based District Judge Michael Farbiarz regarding the detainment and attempted deportation of Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil . As l

Photo credit: South African Jewish Report The legal storm surrounding United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has intensified, with the United States-based National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC) confirming that she has now been served electronically in a US civil lawsuit after a messy attempt in Johannesburg last weekend.  “We also served her over email and at her office so there would be no excuses,” said Mark Goldfeder, the director of the NJAC. Goldfeder told

Photo Credit: thecrimson.com Two Jewish advocacy groups filed amicus briefs this week in the Trump administration’s legal clash with Harvard, which has sued 11 federal agencies for freezing nearly $3 billion in research funding. The National Jewish Advocacy Center filed a brief on Wednesday siding with the Trump administration and challenging Harvard’s argument that the funding cuts violated its First Amendment rights. The nonprofit’s brief argued that the federal government