A new ad by Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign features far-right influencer Tucker Carlson, who has increasingly engaged in antisemitic rhetoric and hosted a series of extremist guests on his podcast.

The ad aims to attract GOP voters by highlighting what El-Sayed said are areas of agreement between him and the MAGA base. It features clips from a series of right-wing figures to hammer the point home.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Friday that American military assistance to Israel would eventually end, adding that the Jewish state would need to prepare an “alternate economy” in the face of potential sanctions.

In an interview on Israel’s Channel 10, Netanyahu said American security assistance “won’t keep coming because America has changed, not because Israel has. It’s over and it will be over, it’s just a question of time.”

Georgetown University law school’s Student Bar Association passed a resolution this week condemning a Jewish attorney on Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) team and accusing her of Islamophobia after she appeared on campus to discuss the Muslim Brotherhood and her work representing victims of terrorism. 

Erielle Azerrad has served as Cruz’s deputy chief counsel since December and has been heavily involved in the Texas senator’s recent efforts to target the Brotherhood. Prior to joining Cruz’s office, Azerrad — who attended Georgetown Law — co-founded the Center for the Middle East and International Law at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, where she remains a senior fellow. She also served at the National Jewish Advocacy Center.

Jewish groups are raising concerns about the American Studies Association’s annual meeting, which includes sessions titled “Zionism Is Racism: Introducing the Critical Zionism Studies Syllabus” and “Dezionizing the U.S. University,” as well as the inclusion of a speaker with a history of controversial remarks about terrorism.

The Anti-Defamation League and the Academic Engagement Network said the programming at the three-day conference, which started Thursday in Chicago, presents a one-sided ideological perspective on Zionism and risks making Jewish and Zionist scholars feel unwelcome. The groups also criticized the inclusion of Palestinian American scientist and author Mazin Qumsiyeh, who in a 2016 article praised Bahaa Alyan, the terrorist that participated in a 2015 Jerusalem bus attack that killed three people, listing him among “martyrs of freedom” and describing such figures as “heroes.” 

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and a group of at least 30 Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate are set to urge House and Senate leaders negotiating the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act to strip out a provision regarding U.S.-Israel cooperation that has drawn backlash from the far left and far right, according to a draft of the letter viewed by Jewish Insider.

Khanna has been a leading opponent of the provision since the NDAA came through the House Armed Services Committee, where his effort to remove the provision was defeated by a voice vote. House Republicans did not permit a vote on an amendment by Khanna and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) to remove the provision when the bill came to the House floor.

American immigrants to Israel have played outsized roles in governing the Jewish state from its establishment: Golda Meir, born in Kyiv and raised in Milwaukee, was a member of the first Knesset, working her way up to become prime minister 20 years later in 1969. A few years after that, Marcia Freedman, from New Jersey, became a pioneer of Israeli feminism in the Knesset, and in the 1980s, Brooklyn-born Rabbi Meir Kahane entered the Knesset as a one-man faction that was later banned because of its racist platform. 

Broaden that out to people who spent formative years in America or have American parents, and you have another two prime ministers: Benjamin Netanyahu and Naftali Bennett, respectively. 

In a meeting at the Vatican with American Jewish Committee CEO Ted Deutch and other AJC leaders from around the country on Thursday, Pope Leo XIV pledged to combat antisemitism.

“Rooted in our shared spiritual heritage, this friendship also calls us to defend human dignity, to serve the poor, to protect religious freedom and to promote justice and peace,” the pope told the Jewish leaders. “Essential to this commitment is the rejection of all forms of religious and ethnic hatred and discrimination.”

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) said on Thursday that a constituent had been arrested in Boca Raton for making a death threat directed at the Florida congressman, the second such arrest since 2024.

“A constituent of mine has just been arrested in Boca Raton, just a few miles from my house, for threatening my life,” Moskowitz said. “He is currently in the Palm Beach County Jail. I’m grateful to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) and local law enforcement for acting quickly to keep my family and me safe.”