Today is Election Day in New York City, and few figures in the city’s political landscape have sparked as much media attention in recent weeks as Zohran Mamdani. Since announcing his bid for mayor in early 2025, the Assemblymember from Queens has become a lightning rod for public controversy—not because of corruption or scandal, but due to the rhetoric he uses when speaking about Israel, Zionism, and Jewish identity. What began as a refusal to disavow the slogan “globalize the intifada” has escalated into a broader debate about the limits of political expression, the boundaries between criticism, anti-Zionism, and antisemitism, and the responsibilities of public figures in shaping digital discourse.

A look at local security concerns in Los Angeles. Camilla Rambaldi reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Monday June 24, 2025.

The world has a moral obligation to end the war between Israel and Iran — and only the United States can achieve this. Donald Trump may have campaigned on a pledge to undo America’s wartime entanglements, but the election is over — it’s time to be president now.

By suggesting that life in the US is as bad for some groups as life in Iran, she exposed the Left’s sinister new worldview.

During a heated segment on The View aired June 18, 2025, co-host Whoopi Goldberg drew strong reactions after stating that life in the United States is “the same” as life under Iran’s authoritarian regime.

In the 1970s, I arrived in Israel as an exchange student from Berkeley. The country was still reeling from the Yom Kippur War — having narrowly escaped annihilation. Confidence was shattered, every household had felt loss, and the optimism of 1967 felt like a distant memory. What struck me at the time was how so many Israelis in the prime of life were desperate for any visa — especially to the US — as a way to escape runaway inflation and collective despair.

Does a video really show missile-shaped baloons with the slogan "Iran is your problem too!" floating past Radio City Hall in New York? No, that's not true: The video was created by a digital advertising agency named Cracker TLV. They created several other videos using the exact same background scene but with other objects floating past.

Today, Israel’s Foreign Minister, Israel Katz, posted a reckless statement on X. In response to Iran’s brutal missile attacks on Israel’s civilians, he wrote that the people of Tehran would “pay a price.” The language was cruel, populist, and utterly disconnected from the values Israel claims to uphold.

Tel Aviv Institute Senior Fellow Hen Mazzig joins Katy Tur to discuss the rise in antisemitism in the U.S. and to discuss the New York Times Editorial Board calling it an urgent problem” and that “too many people are making excuses.”

Amid recent unrest between Iran and Israel, social media users circulated a video claiming to show a massive fire in Tel Aviv triggered by an Iranian missile strike. Several users shared the footage with identical captions stating, “A huge fire broke out in #Tel_Aviv as a result of the #Iranian missile attack.”