Posts Tagged: Ritchie Torres
Trump, Democrats, Israeli Officials Slam Biden for ‘Aiding Hamas’ With Threat to Halt Weapons
US President Joe Biden's threat to halt arms shipments to Israel if it proceeds with a planned military operation in the southern Gaza city of...
US Lawmakers Push Bill to Create ‘Antisemitism Monitors’ at Universities
US Reps. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) and Mike Lawler (R-NY) plan to introduce bipartisan legislation that, if passed into law, could condition federal funding for universities...
Top Democrats Make Unprecedented Statements Against Israel, Signaling Party Shift
A growing number of prominent, mainstream US Democrats have made recent statements calling to condition Washington's military aid to Israel and even suggesting the Jewish...
Abbas Spokesman Doubles Down on Palestinian Leader’s Antisemitic Speech Despite Global Condemnation
The spokesman for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas doubled down on the legitimacy of his boss's recent speech, which has drawn international outrage for its...
Ethics Probe Expected for ‘Jew-ish’ Rep. George Santos
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Tuesday said that he expects that the House Ethics Committee will investigate embattled Congressman George Santos (R-NY),...
Opponent of Congressman-Elect George Santos Calls For Probe After False Claims Over Jewish Heritage
Robert Zimmerman, the Democratic candidate for New York’s 3rd Congressional district in November, called for a House ethics investigation Thursday following revelations that his opponent,...
‘Israel Is Too Complex to Be Reduced to a Tweet,’ Declares US Rep. Torres, Backing Its Approach to Russia-Ukraine War
As Israeli mediation efforts continued during the third week of Russia's war in Ukraine, US Congressman Ritchie Torres (D-NY) suggested that the Jewish state could...
NY Dem. Torres Blasts Opposition to Abraham Accords as Bowman Drops Support: ‘Makes No Sense Even by the Distorted Logic of BDS’
US Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) on Wednesday slammed opposition to the normalization deals between Israel and Arab states, saying it “makes no sense even by...
US Lawmakers, Jewish Groups Slam Amnesty Report as ‘Demonization’ of Israel
A leading progressive Congressman and the ranking Republican member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee joined other US lawmakers, Jewish groups and Israeli officials on...
US Lawmakers Urge Spanish PM to Investigate Mass Rejections of Descendants of Sephardi Jews Claiming Citizenship
A group of US lawmakers have called on the Spanish prime minister to investigate and reverse the reported pattern of rejections of Jewish claims to...
Jewish Umbrella Org Announces $54 Million Initiative to ‘Secure Every Jewish Community’
As American Jewish communities have increasingly been the target of antisemitic harassment and violence over the past year, the Jewish Federations of North America announced...
‘Israel Reminds Us That It Is Possible to Overcome’: Ritchie Torres Gives Israeli Independence Day Speech From House Floor
US Congressman Ritchie Torres took to the floor of the US House of Representatives Thursday to mark Israel's Independence Day. "Israel embodies the resilience, the ingenuity,...
‘We Cannot Take for Granted’ Support for US-Israel Ties, Argues Progressive Congressman Torres in Interview
Despite a history of left-wing Zionism in the United States, a growing strand of anti-Israel sentiment among progressives is cause for concern, according to US...
US Congressman Calls for German Probe Into ‘Disturbing’ Allegations of NY Hasidic Jews Detained at Frankfurt Airport
US Congressman Ritchie Torres is calling upon Germany's Consul General in New York to open an investigation into a March 7 incident, in which 16...
