Tuesday night’s Democratic primaries in New Hampshire delivered mixed results for candidates who made attacks on Israel a centerpiece of their closing arguments.

Rep. Chris Pappas (D-NH) trounced progressive activist Karishma Manzur by nearly a 2-to-1 margin (65%-33%) in the Senate primary, after Manzur attacked Pappas for his stance on Israel and called him a “shill for AIPAC” as a central message of her campaign.

LAS VEGAS — In November 2025, Itay Chen’s remains were returned to his family, more than two years after he was killed in his tank during the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel, during which terrorists took Chen’s remains to Gaza. Chen was the last American held hostage by the terrorist group to be released.

His father, Ruby Chen, spent those two years flying to Washington and around the world advocating for his son’s freedom. But even though his son has been laid to rest, Chen’s fight isn’t over. Now, he’s working to ensure that the American victims of Oct. 7 are remembered, that his son’s “sacrifice was not in vain” and to ensure that other families don’t have to go through the same pain, Chen told Jewish Insider on the sidelines of the Republican Jewish Coalition conference last week in Las Vegas.

As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads toward what could be one of the most consequential elections of his career next month, a new book is offering an unusually candid look at the decision-making that will define how history — and Israeli voters — judge him. 

In the War Room: The Inside Story of Israel’s Fight Against Hamas and the Iranian Axis, by Jerusalem Post military correspondent Yonah Jeremy Bob and Wall Street Journal editorial writer Elliot Kaufman, draws on two years of interviews with Israel’s political, military and intelligence leadership to reconstruct the internal battles that shaped the war — battles that often pitted Netanyahu against his own defense establishment.

Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) urged the Trump administration on Wednesday to review whether the United Kingdom and other countries imposing trade restrictions and additional sanctions on Israeli settlements places those countries in violation of U.S. anti-boycott laws — and to consider whether the effort merits a response from the United States.

Tenney sent a letter, obtained by Jewish Insider, to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent asking him to review whether these countries’ targeting of West Bank settlements meets the criteria for being included on the Treasury Department’s international boycott list. She also asked Bessent to assess the implications of these trade restrictions for American businesses. 

Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) and Elise Stefanik (R-NY) announced that they are launching the Combating Antisemitism on College Campuses Caucus during a visit to Vanderbilt University on Tuesday.

The announcement was made during an event with Vanderbilt Chancellor Daniel Diermeier and the leaders of the University of Kentucky, University of Texas at Austin, Dartmouth College, the University of Alabama and Washington University in St. Louis. 

A group of more than a dozen Michigan rabbis, cantors and Jewish lay leaders from across the state launched a new petition campaign on Tuesday to pressure Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate nominee, to affirm a series of “nonnegotiable” commitments to the Jewish community, arguing that failing to do so would jeopardize Jewish support for Democrats.

The Nonnegotiable Michigan campaign, created in cooperation with the liberal Jewish group Zioness Action Fund, calls out El-Sayed for a “sustained pattern” of comments by himself and surrogates that organizers say crosses the line into antisemitism, including downplaying, justifying or potentially inciting violence against Jews.

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) is urging President Donald Trump to establish an expedited legal pathway for Jewish Canadians to obtain refugee status in the United States amid rising antisemitism in Canada. 

In a letter to the president on Tuesday, Scott encouraged Trump to set up a refugee program for Canadian Jews to legally seek refuge from religious persecution in their home country. The Florida senator noted that Trump recently amplified a report on Christian leaders urging him to create a legal pathway for Jews in Canada to come to the U.S., and vowed to support the president if he pursued the idea. 

Former White House officials and diplomats say the U.K. government’s decision to slap sweeping new sanctions on Israeli West Bank settlements is primarily a bid to appease far-left political factions in Britain, warning that while the move is unlikely to alter Israeli behavior on the ground, it risks increasing diplomatic friction between London, Jerusalem and Washington.

On Tuesday, U.K. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced the U.K. would institute an import ban on goods produced in settlements, targeted sanctions against individuals and corporate entities involved in constructing, advertising or financing settlement expansion and a ban on events held in the U.K. that promote West Bank real estate.