Israel’s U.S. Support Problem Becomes an Election Test

Israel’s parties are treating erosion in American support as an election issue, while a new poll finds only 41% of likely voters ages 18–29 affirm Israel’s right to exist as an independent country.

In Dublin, Jewish leaders pressed for stronger protection as a hotel’s unexplained cancellation of 70 rooms for antisemitism envoys exposed the exclusion they came to confront. In New York, Mayor Zohran Mamdani is resisting DSA demands to remove NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.

At the local level, Somerville is weighing a binding Israel-focused divestment ordinance. Colombia, meanwhile, opened the 10th foreign embassy in Jerusalem.