New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday rejected calls from his socialist allies that he force out NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, a rare pro-Israel figure in his administration and an outspoken voice on Jewish issues.

Days after protesters clashed with cops following an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent’s shooting of a man in Manhattan, multiple left-wing voices — including from the Democratic Socialists of America and two candidates the mayor himself endorsed for office — demanded the police chief’s ouster.

The Congressional Leadership Fund, the independent expenditure arm of the House GOP aligned with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), is withdrawing plans for independent spending against Rep. Greg Landsman (D-OH), alongside several other districts the PAC is seen as essentially surrendering to Democrats, according to the New York Times.

Landsman, a moderate Jewish Democrat, is running for reelection in a district the Cook Political Report rates as “lean Democrat,” even though President Donald Trump won the district by more than 2.5% in 2024.

A State Department event honoring the 46 Americans killed in Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, terror attacks in Israel is set to take place on Wednesday.

The event was previously scheduled for late September, but was postponed two days before it was set to take place. It is being planned in cooperation with the American Jewish Committee.

With the electoral blocs led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot running neck-and-neck in the polls only two weeks before the Israeli election, a few very small parties hovering around the electoral threshold could end up tipping the scales in favor of the prime minister or his main rival. If one or more of those small parties pass the threshold and enter the Knesset, they could end up being kingmakers.

While 10 to 12 parties have generally been represented in the Knesset in recent years, there are 38 parties running in this month’s election. Only those that receive at least 3.25% of the vote will get into the Knesset, where seats will be divided proportionally between the parties that pass that threshold. 

Michelle Smith, a senior advisor in Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office, endorsed an antisemitic claim about a GOP operative in the state in a post on X last year.

Smith, who has served as a senior advisor to Paxton since December 2020 and is not employed by Paxton’s Senate campaign, wrote in a June 2025 post on X that she agreed with another user’s antisemitic claim about Chad Wilbanks, a veteran Texas Republican operative. 

The assistant attorney general for civil rights, Harmeet Dhillon, warned last week that countries participating in boycotts of Israel could face U.S. retaliation, raising the prospect of sanctions against Britain and other European governments. 

But Washington still has yet to clarify its policy, and it remains unclear whether the Trump administration plans to move forward with retaliatory measures.

More than 1,100 people gathered Monday night at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Mich., for an event organized by local Jewish groups featuring Reps. Hillary Scholten (D-MI) and Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) alongside commentators Dan Senor and Bret Stephens, discussing the rise of antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment in political life.

Though the Michigan Senate race wasn’t directly addressed, the event came ahead of the election in less than a month, in which Israel and the Jewish community have been central topics of discussion. During the event, Scholten and Gottheimer discussed the rising antisemitic and anti-Israel trends in their party and why they’ve remained outspoken against them.

Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) told reporters on Monday that Lebanese and Israeli leaders both expressed to him strong interest in the Michigan Senate race, where pro-Israel Republican Mike Rogers faces Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, while he was on a trip to the Middle East last week.

Lankford’s visit to the region included meetings with President Joseph Aoun, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar and Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana in Israel.