A bipartisan resolution introduced in the House of Representatives on Tuesday honors the pilot and passengers who helped avert the attempted hijacking of FlyDubai flight 1073 last week.

During last Wednesday’s flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, an Omani copilot stabbed the other pilot in the cockpit and attempted to seize control of the aircraft. Pilot Smit Machchhar, despite his injuries, held off the attacker and unlocked the cockpit door, allowing passengers and crew to enter and restrain the copilot and off-duty pilots onboard to safely land the aircraft.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) has made a name for himself as a progressive leader on the national stage who has often spoken out against Middle East allies — including Israel, over its war against Hamas in Gaza, and Saudi Arabia, over its human rights record.

But Murphy, in the middle of a trip across the Middle East that included meetings in Qatar earlier this week, made no mention of Doha’s checkered human rights record — never mind its role, in the eyes of its detractors, as a leading backer of anti-Israel propaganda, funder of antisemitic activity on college campuses and a supporter of terrorism — even as he offered criticisms of Saudi Arabia on a later leg of the same trip.

Amcha Yisrael leader Ofer Winter doubled down on his call to encourage Palestinian emigration from Gaza and his opposition to a two-state solution at an event in Tel Aviv on Monday, as his new party dropped in the polls amid increasing attacks from the right.

Winter, 55, is a retired IDF brigadier general who was viewed in recent years as a potential political star on the Israeli right for his hawkish views. In August, he announced that he was founding Amcha Yisrael, a biblical reference that means “your nation of Israel.” 

Michael Needham, the deputy U.S. national security advisor, said on Monday that the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks on Israel and their aftermath are part of a shared civilizational war pitting the United States, Israel and other allies against enemies of the West.

The Oct. 7 attacks were met with praise and “gleeful celebration of inhuman barbarism, savagery and death” both in Gaza and around the world, Needham said in remarks at an event organized by the Israeli Embassy in Washington to commemorate the third anniversary of the attack.

Lenny Steinberg, the executive director of Oregon Hillel, said he was left feeling “sad, angry and scared” after posters found plastered around the University of Oregon campus targeted him directly, featuring a photo of his face under the banner “enemy of the people” and claiming he “supports the continuation of Zionism and genocide in Palestine.”

In a conversation with Marc Blattner, president and CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland, Steinberg said that “targeting an individual by name and face is meant to intimidate, and it crosses the line from political speech to harassment,” according to a statement released by Blattner.

The Department of Justice on Friday announced charges against a Gaza-based Hamas commander as well as the arrests of three U.S.-based affiliates for allegedly funnelling money from the U.S. to Hamas, under the guise of charitable humanitarian fundraising. 

Three others were also arrested in France as part of the investigation.

Ambassador Yehuda Kaploun, the State Department’s antisemitism envoy, revealed on Monday that the U.S. expects several Latin American countries to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism in the coming months. 

Kaploun made the comments at a press conference about the Trump administration’s efforts to combat antisemitism ahead of the third anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attacks on Israel, after being asked to analyze how regional leaders have responded to the rise in anti-Jewish hate.

Former President Barack Obama is set to campaign on Oct. 24 in Detroit with Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and gubernatorial candidate Jocelyn Benson, around the beginning of early voting in the state.

Holding the Michigan Senate seat is among Democrats’ top priorities in the midterm elections. Polling has shown the race between El-Sayed and Republican former Rep. Mike Rogers is highly competitive, with Republicans making the seat one of their top targets.