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 Congressman Ritchie Torres visiting Israel's south

Ritchie Torres, Mike Lawler introduce bill to create campus antisemitism monitors

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA
 US Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC) speaks during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on gun violence on Capitol Hill in Washington, US June 8, 2022.

Chairman of House Education Committee to Columbia president: We will hold you accountable

 US PRESIDENT Joe Biden shakes hands with House Speaker Mike Johnson before delivering his State of the Union address, last month.

US lawmakers overwhelmingly show support for Israel as it begins retaliation against Iran

 U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) lead a House Progressive Caucus news conference on Capitol Hill in the midst of ongoing negotiations seeking a deal to raise the United States' debt ceiling and avoid a catastrophic default, in Washington, U.S. May 24, 2023.

House overwhelmingly approves resolution condemning Iran, supporting Israel's defense

New York police officers stand guard as pro-Israel and pro-Palestinians students demonstrate, amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza, at Columbia University in New York City, US, October 12, 2023

Columbia University president, at House hearing, says university can do more to fight antisemitism

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA
 US PRESIDENT Joe Biden shakes hands with House Speaker Mike Johnson before delivering his State of the Union address, last month.

US House sets long-awaited vote on billions for Ukraine, Israel

By REUTERS
 A PROTEST organized by Palestinian solidarity groups and activists takes place in Copenhagen last month. The genocidal calls of ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ are accompanied by massively financed and marketed Palestinian paraphernalia, scarves, flags, and posters.

House of Representatives passes resolution condemning 'From the river to the sea' chants

  Mike Johnson after his victory in the elections for the speaker of the US House of Representatives, October 25, 2023

Ukraine, Israel aid to hit US House floor as separate bills soon

By REUTERS
 Majority Leader of the US House of Representatives, Steve Scalise, speaks at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Gathering at a Historic Synagogue, Sixth & I, in Washington, DC.

Majority Leader Steve Scalise to 'Post': Republicans will propose new Iranian sanctions

 Rep. Brad Sherman, September 16, 2020.

Representatives urge US to sanction Gaza group Popular Resistance Committees for role in Oct. 7

REP. JAMAAL BOWMAN (D-New York) speaks at a watch party in Yonkers, New York, last year.

Leading Jewish Democratic group endorses Jamaal Bowman’s primary challenger

By Luke Tress/JTA
 US House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) pumps fists with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) before the State of the Union address.

‘March Madness’ in the House of Chaos

Members of the 118th Congress raise their right hands as they are sworn into office to serve in the US House of Representatives on the fourth day of Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, US, January 7, 2023.

Bipartisan bill introduced to make reporting campus antisemitism, and discrimination easier

US Rep. Nancy Mace (R-NC) addresses the press.

South Carolina congresswoman calls for uniform antisemitism reporting for colleges

 The UNRWA school gate is pictured in the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem in the West Bank, February 5, 2024.

US Congress deal bars US funds to UNRWA until March 2025, sources say

By REUTERS
 A view shows the office of TikTok after the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that would give TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the U.S. assets of the short-video app or face a ban, in Culver City, California, March 13, 2024.

Jewish Federations praise US House for passing TikTok bill, citing antisemitism on app

Mike Collins, who is running for election to the US House to represent Georgia's 10th Congressional District, delivers a speech during a rally in support of defendants being prosecuted in the January 6 attack on the Capitol, in Washington, US, September 18, 2021.

Georgia politician accused of antisemitism for remark about Jewish writer

 U.S. House Democrats from left to right Becca Balint of Vermont, Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania and Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut tour the West Bank village of Khirbet Zanutah in Feb. 20, 2024.

Netanyahu shows 'utter disregard' for Palestinian lives - Six House Democrats

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA