Debra Flax

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(June 6, 2025 / JNS)Amid backlash, Harvard University defended its decision to award an honorary degree to an anti-Israel professor who called for boycotting the Jewish state, while distancing itself from the professor’s beliefs. At its commencement ceremony last week, the Ivy League awarded an honorary degree to Elaine H. Kim, professor emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, and an endorser of the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.

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(June 6, 2025 / JNS)A federal jury convicted Muhammad Pahlawan, 49, on Thursday for smuggling Iranian weapons to the Houthi terrorists in Yemen and for threatening “multiple” witnesses, the U.S. Justice Department stated. U.S. forces, including Navy SEALs, captured the Pakistani national when they boarded an unflagged, small ship that he was captaining, with 13 other people aboard, off the coast of Somalia on Jan. 11, 2024.

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(June 5, 2025 / JNS)Sens. Roger Marshall and Jerry Moran, both Kansas Republicans, introduced a resolution on Wednesday honoring Sarah Milgrim, a native of Overland Park, Kan., who was murdered alongside Yaron Lischinsky outside the Capital Jewish Museum on May 21. “At just 26 years old, Sarah Milgrim’s impact on our country and her community was profound,” stated Marshall.

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(June 5, 2025 / JNS)The nearly 100-year-old Boulder County Historic Courthouse, adjacent to the site of Sunday’s antisemitic attack in Boulder, Colo., was lit up with bluish-purple lights from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. on Wednesday in solidarity with the victims and to call attention to Jew-hatred.

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(June 4, 2025 / JNS)The number of identified victims in Sunday’s antisemitic attack in Boulder, Colo., has increased to 15 people and one dog, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced Wednesday. “The victims range from 25 to 88 years old, eight female and seven male,” the FBI wrote. The accused perpetrator is a 45-year-old Egyptian, “who had overstayed his visa in the United States and remained in the country unlawfully since 2022,” according to the Trump administration.