Marc Rod

“We have a big Jewish population in our state. He’s had some comments with regard to antisemitism, so I wanted to understand that,” @SenRickScott told Jewish Insider. jewishinsider.com/2025/07/paul-i…

“There’s a lot of posts that he’s made that I think we just need an answer to,” @SenatorLankford told Jewish Insider when asked about what questions he had for Ingrassia. jewishinsider.com/2025/07/paul-i…

The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee delayed a confirmation hearing for Paul Ingrassia, Trump's nominee for a government ethics oversight role, amid questions about his record from some Senate Republicans. @marcrod97 reports: ji.news/3z32h

Sen. Pete Ricketts attempted to call up and pass by unanimous consent a resolution urging the U.K., France and Germany to trigger the snapback of U.N. sanctions on Iran “as soon as possible,” but was blocked by Sen. Rand Paul. @marcrod97 reports: ji.news/3yxri

Asked by Jewish Insider about whether the administration is working to end Turkey and Qatar’s sponsorship of Hamas, he said that he is “imminently traveling to that part of the world, so that should tell you something.” jewishinsider.com/2025/07/seb-go…

Gorka also said he supports efforts to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, suggested he’s pursuing efforts to convince Qatar and Turkey to cut Hamas ties and said the U.S. wants to see Syrian minority groups come to the table. jewishinsider.com/2025/07/seb-go…

“We are not in the business of deploying the 82nd Airborne to do regime changes anywhere,” Gorka said at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. In the long term, he added, “we would like the people of Persia... to eventually liberate themselves.” jewishinsider.com/2025/07/seb-go…

.@SebGorka, the White House senior director for counterterrorism and a deputy assistant to the president, said that the U.S. is not seeking regime change in Iran, but will maintain its maximum-pressure campaign. @marcrod97 reports: ji.news/3yxdq

A House committee voted to advance a bill aiming to expedite arms sales to Abraham Accords partners, as well as bills to review the U.S.-South Africa relationship and to combat the proliferation of Western-made parts in Iranian drones. @marcrod97 reports: ji.news/3yxaa

A House committee voted to advance a bill that would place a series of conditions on the lifting of sanctions on Syria, after a debate over whether the U.S. should instead pursue complete sanctions relief for the new Syrian government. @marcrod97 reports: ji.news/3ywz5

Republicans on a House subcommittee are backing a significant increase in funding for the State Department’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism. @marcrod97 reports: ji.news/3ywub

New: Sen. Lindsey Graham tells me he's concerned about the backlash to Israel's most recent operations in Syria and the strike that killed three at a Catholic church in Gaza. Graham warned that Christians in the West Bank must not face the same fate as other Middle Eastern…

New: Minneapolis Jews sound an early alarm on Democratic Party endorsement of DSA lawmaker in mayoral race jewishinsider.com/2025/07/minnea…

William Bennett, a former U.S. secretary of education under former President Ronald Reagan, registered in early July as an agent for Qatar, to advocate for the country on education-related issues. @marcrod97 reports: ji.news/3yt7s

In a 422-6 vote, the House rejected a bid by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to block the $500 million in cooperative missile-defense funding the U.S. provides annually to Israel. @marcrod97 reports: ji.news/3ye5c

U.S. hostage envoy @aboehler said at @AspenSecurity that there had been “some movement forward” recently toward a hostage-release deal with Hamas. @marcrod97 reports: ji.news/3ye8a

Sen. @ChrisCoons said at @AspenSecurity that the U.S. strikes on Iran could ultimately produce a positive outcome, a softening of the Delaware senator’s previous skepticism. @marcrod97 reports: ji.news/3yeha

EXCLUSIVE | A group of Jewish House Democrats led by @RepFriedmanCA raised questions about the Pentagon’s decision to announce a $200M contract with Elon Musk’s company xAI to utilize a version of its Grok artificial intelligence. @marcrod97 reports: ji.news/3yek7

Retired Gen. David Petraeus said at @AspenSecurity that Israel will no longer tolerate threats to its security throughout the region in the post Oct. 7 environment, including a resumption of Iran’s nuclear program. @marcrod97 reports: ji.news/3yery

“We have to step back a little bit and recognize that Israel’s strategic calculation is very, very different from before Oct. 7, and that’s a big deal for the region,” the former director of the CIA and head of U.S. Central Command said. #AspenSecurity jewishinsider.com/2025/07/david-…