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Israelis rally in Tel Aviv for the release of the remaining 76 hostages being held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, Feb. 8, 2025.

‘Hell’ to break out if Hamas won’t release all hostages on Feb. 15, warns Trump

Jonathan D. Salant, JNSPublished February 10, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump vowed on Monday that “all hell is going to break out” if Hamas did not release the remaining hostages by Saturday. “As far as I’m concerned, if all of the hostages aren’t returned by Saturday at 12 o’clock—I...

White T-shirt swastika.

Kanye West’s SuperBowl ad directs people to purchase swastika shirt

JNS StaffPublished February 10, 2025

Rapper Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, released an ad during the Super Bowl that directed people to his website Yeezy.com, which now only sells one item: a white T-shirt with a black swastika. The rapper filmed the 30-second advertisement on his iPhone...

Kanye West at Milk Studios for an Adidas + KANYE WEST partnership announcement on June 28, 2016 in Hollywood, California.

Kanye West bought a Super Bowl ad. His product? A swastika T-shirt.

Ben Sales, JTAPublished February 10, 2025

Among the star-studded Super Bowl ads that viewers saw during Sunday’s game was an awkward 30-second spot, filmed vertically on an iPhone, in which the rapper Kanye West, AKA 'Ye' talks about his new teeth and instructs the audience to go to Yeezy.com. As...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks to the media in Berlin, Aug. 16, 2022.

Mahmoud Abbas ends Palestinian Authority’s payments to families of terrorists

Published February 10, 2025

The Palestinian Authority will no longer pay stipends to the families of convicted terrorists and other prisoners, in a gesture to President Donald Trump. | RELATED: Hamas says that it will delay next hostage release The longstanding program determined...

Hamas delays release of hostages, alleging Israeli violations

Hamas delays release of hostages, alleging Israeli violations

JNS StaffPublished February 10, 2025

Hamas said it will delay an Israeli hostage release scheduled for Feb. 15 until further notice due to Israel’s alleged violations of the ceasefire agreement, a spokesman for the terror group stated. Abu Obeida, spokesman for Hamas’s Al-Qassam Brigades, posted...

Palestinians walk along destroyed houses at the Shaboura area in the center of Rafah, days into the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, Jan 24, 2025.

Hamas says that it will delay next hostage release

By Ben Sales, JTAPublished February 10, 2025

Hamas announced that it will delay its next release of Israeli hostages, claiming that Israel has violated the ceasefire agreement. The announcement came two days after the last hostage release sparked outrage in Israel and beyond, as the three released...

Kanye West and Bianca Censori attend the 67th Grammy Awards at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, Feb. 2, 2025.

Thanking Elon Musk for ‘allowing me to vent,’ Kanye West quits X after antisemitic rant

By Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished February 10, 2025

Two days after drawing attention for a string of antisemitic posts, the rapper and artist Ye says he has signed off X. Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, announced late Sunday that he was quitting the platform, owned by Elon Musk. Musk invited the artist...

A protester holds a Sudan/Palestinian flag with the words "Gaza" and "Sudan" as US rapper Kendrick Lamar performs during thee Super Bowl LIX halftime show, Feb. 9, 2025.

Super Bowl performer ejected after displaying Palestinian/Sudanese flag that said ‘Gaza’

By Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished February 10, 2025

A performer unfurled a banner showing the Sudanese and Palestinian flags and the words “Sudan” and “Gaza” during Kendrick Lamar’s halftime show at Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans on Sunday. The performer, who was not immediately identified,...

Kanye West seen in Los Angeles, May 13, 2023. (MEGA/GC Images)

Kanye embarks on a new antisemitic spree on X, saying, ‘I’m never apologizing for my Jewish comments’

Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished February 7, 2025

Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, flooded the social network X with antisemitic comments early Friday morning, in a repeat of the spree that cost him his fashion deals and public esteem two years ago. In dozens of tweets to his 32 million...

Snoop Dogg (left) and Tom Brady star in a Super Bowl ad calling out hate, produced by Robert Kraft’s foundation.

Snoop Dogg, Tom Brady fighting hate in Super Bowl ad

Jacob Gurvis, JTAPublished February 6, 2025

When more than 100 million viewers tune into the Super Bowl on Sunday, they’ll see Snoop Dogg and Tom Brady go toe to toe in a 30-second spot, screaming in each other’s faces.  The commercial is the second annual Super Bowl ad produced by the...

May 16, 2023; Washington, DC, USA; Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., questions Samuel Altman, CEO, OpenAI, testifying before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law hearing on Artificial Intelligence in Washington. Mandatory Credit: Jack Gruber-USA TODAY

Josh Hawley and pro-Israel Dem group comment on Trump’s proposed Gaza plan

JNS StaffPublished February 5, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump’s remarks on Tuesday evening that the United States “will take over the Gaza Strip” are “cruel, immoral and impractical,” Mark Mellman, the president and CEO of Democratic Majority for Israel, stated on Wednesday. “One...

US President Donald Trump listens to Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak during a press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, Feb. 4, 2025.

US Jewish groups respond to Trump’s Gaza comments

Philissa Cramer, JTAPublished February 5, 2025

(JTA) — Reactions from partisan American Jewish groups to President Donald Trump’s proposals for Gaza — that “all” Palestinians leave and the United States “take over” the territory — began flowing in just as soon as their leaders picked...

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