Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) has invited Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories, whom the Biden administration has repeatedly condemned as antisemitic and unfit for her position, to Capitol Hill to brief congressional staff next week.

Albanese has a long track record of statements and comments that the Biden administration and lawmakers have described as antisemitic. The administration has also accused her of excusing and justifying the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel.

MIAMI — Hours after Vice President Kamala Harris staged an impromptu speech on Wednesday at the Naval Observatory to condemn past comments reportedly made by former President Donald Trump praising Adolf Hitler’s generals, her husband took that message to Jewish voters and donors on a campaign swing in South Florida. 

“I’m going to speak about it not only as Second Gentleman, soon to be First Gentleman, but I’m also speaking as a Jewish person,” Emhoff said at a get-out-the-vote rally in heavily blue Broward County. He called Trump’s comments “dangerous antisemitism.” 

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is urging Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to bring legislation sanctioning the International Criminal Court for pursuing arrest warrants against Israeli officials up for a vote “as soon as the Senate returns.”

Johnson expressed his concerns about the bill’s continued delays in the upper chamber, despite it passing the House in a bipartisan fashion in June, in a letter to Schumer obtained by Jewish Insider. The memo, dated Wednesday, points to comments from Schumer himself and President Joe Biden condemning the ICC for pursuing such charges and notes the New York senator’s public commitment to negotiating a sanctions package. 

Wall Street Journal Opinion and Palladium Pictures released their first in a series of short documentaries earlier this month, with the opening film shedding light on the unfolding of the 1991 Crown Heights riot. 

The film, titled “‘Get the Jew’: Brooklyn 1991,” was released on the anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel. The 23-minute documentary details the three-day episode, the worst antisemitic riot in American history, and explains how the media and leading political figures in the city “played down or excused the antisemitism at the heart of the violence,” according to a press release on the project. 

Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, the mother of Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, praised slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in a post on X shortly after Sinwar was killed by Israeli forces operating in Gaza. 

“The name Yahya means the one who lives,” she wrote. “They thought him dead but he lives. Like his namesake, Yahya bin Zakariya, he will live on and they will be gone.”

Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks, the Democrat running in the competitive Senate race to replace retiring Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD), said on Tuesday that she attributes “a lot of” the antisemitism in the United States right now to former President Donald Trump.

Alsobrooks, who is facing Republican former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan in an expensive and closely watched contest, made the comment at a virtual town hall organized by the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington on Tuesday after being asked how she would work to address the rise in Jewish hate as a senator. 

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers is stepping up its criticism of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, calling on the administration to publicly condemn Erdoğan’s provocative comments and actions against Israel.

Erdoğan has repeatedly and openly sided with Hamas since Oct. 7 and even threatened to invade Israel. Lawmakers have repeatedly expressed concerns about his activities and threatened penalties, but this letter puts forward their most explicit request for consequences for Erdoğan’s provocations.

Sen. George Helmy (D-NJ), the placeholder senator picked to replace former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) in the Senate until a winner of the New Jersey Senate race is certified, won’t be in Congress for much longer. But, given the close margins in the Senate, his vote could prove important in his final weeks in the upper chamber. 

Helmy, 44, is the former chief of staff to Gov. Phil Murphy and served as a staffer for Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and the late Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), both strong supporters of Israel. He’s the son of immigrants from Egypt, and the first Coptic Christian and the sixth Arab American to serve in the Senate.