Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) offered a blistering rebuke of House Republicans’ emergency Israel aid package, which also cut funding from the Internal Revenue Service, in an interview with Jewish Insider.

“Putting any type of cuts to a supplemental package to one of our greatest allies in the world is disgusting,” Miller said. “I think it’s stupid. I’m supportive of Israel — don’t get me wrong, I voted for it — but I think it’s a gimmick.”

A pro-Palestinian college professor was arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter on Thursday in connection with the death of a 69-year-old Jewish man at dueling pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian rallies in Los Angeles last week, the Ventura County Sheriff’s office announced. 

Officials named Loay Abdelfattah Alnaji, 50, as the suspect involved in Paul Kessler’s death. The two men reportedly got into an altercation at the Nov. 5 protests. Photos show Kessler waving an Israeli flag moments before the violence began. Medical examiners determined that Kessler was struck with a megaphone and fell backwards, hitting his head on the pavement and suffering a head wound. He died the next day.  

An anti-Israel protest outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters turned violent Wednesday night, with multiple melees between police and demonstrators who attempted to block access to the building.

The demonstration, which prompted a sizable law enforcement response, left six officers with minor injuries, according to Capitol Police, and resulted in one arrest of an individual who allegedly “slam[med]” an officer “into a garage door” and “punch[ed] [a] female officer in the face.” Police said they were also pepper sprayed by demonstrators.

Virginia’s attorney general sent a letter today to college and university presidents in the commonwealth, urging them to “do more to address antisemitism,” according to a copy of the letter shared exclusively with Jewish Insider.

“Countless Virginia students of Jewish backgrounds feel threatened and unsupported in today’s climate on our college campuses,” wrote Attorney General Jason Miyares, a Republican. “This is unacceptable.” 

Israeli soldiers continued to search the area in and around Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Thursday, a day after the army revealed what it said was an operational command center that included a cache of weapons, intelligence materials and military equipment uncovered in the medical campus’ MRI building.

Lt. Col. (res) Jonathan Conricus, the IDF’s spokesman for the foreign press, showed reporters on Wednesday a video of a collection of AK-47 rifles, ammunition, body armor, uniforms and operational guides he said belonged to Hamas that were discovered hidden behind an MRI machine. As he took viewers through the clinic, Conricus pointed out that CCTV cameras had been blacked out and at least one computer containing intelligence information was found.

Forty days into Israel’s war against Hamas, opposition leader Yair Lapid called for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign immediately. 

After previously saying he “won’t get into it while our soldiers are in Gaza,” Lapid told Israel’s Channel 12 on Wednesday that “Netanyahu has to go now because we cannot allow ourselves — for security, for society — [to have] a prime minister that lost the public’s trust.”

In response to growing antisemitic activity, including threats, harassment and intimidation of Jewish students on college campuses, House lawmakers on Wednesday moved to cut federal funding to schools that don’t respond forcefully to such activity, as well as floated investigations of groups involved with anti-Israel campus demonstrations.

“It’s far past time to do something about it… why would we continue to fund these universities with taxpayer dollars?” Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) said at a hearing of the House Ways and Means Committee, a proposal echoed by several colleagues. “It is beyond anything I can grasp anymore. Because I wasn’t raised this way. What in the heck is wrong with these people?”

A group of 24 House Democrats called for a cease-fire in Israel’s war with Hamas, and accused Israel of “grave violations against children” in a letter to President Joe Biden on Thursday.

The letter, led by left-wing Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Betty McCollum (D-MN) and Mark Pocan (D-WI), states that the lawmakers are “profoundly shocked by the grave violations of children’s rights,” and raises concerns about strikes on schools, residential and civilian areas, and shutdowns of medical facilities in Gaza.