News Roundup for February 10, 2026
DC’s Eliza Schloss Reconnects to Judaism Through Activism, Washington Jewish Week
“Even on a hard day, when we’re dealing with incredibly heartbreaking issues, it helps keep me going that I’m here for a reason and rooted in something that’s more than myself, but my community,” J Street Senior Content Strategist and Producer Eliza Schloss told Washington Jewish Week.
AIPAC Defends $2.3M Spend Against ‘Pro-Israel’ Politician in NJ-11, Where Anti-Israel Candidate Is Prevailing, JTA
“Jeremy Ben-Ami, the president of J Street, which endorsed Malinowski, wrote in a Substack column that AIPAC was responding to criticism of the Israeli government’s policies as if it were hostility toward the country itself.”
The JFNA Survey Proves It: ‘Zionism’ Today Only Impedes the Conversations That Jews, Israelis and Palestinians Need, JTA
“Since the 1960s, Jewish legacy groups have made a concerted effort to sideline any Jewish organization that dares to criticize the Israeli government or to call for an end to occupation. Mainstream organizational pressure effectively destroyed Breira — an anti-occupation Zionist group — in the 1970s and its successor New Jewish Agenda, and has sought to do the same to groups like J Street, New Jewish Narrative, New Israel Fund and T’ruah,” writes Rabbi Jill Jacobs.
Israel Gives Itself More Control Over Occupied West Bank, New York Times
“The measures, which make it easier for Jewish settlers to buy land and undercut the Palestinian Authority in parts of the West Bank that it administers, appear to flout important agreements that Israel signed under the Oslo peace process decades ago.”
Netanyahu Flies to Washington to Meet Trump and Discuss US-Iran Talks, Gaza, Haaretz
“The prime minister said that on his seventh visit to meet Trump since he began his second term last year, the pair will ‘discuss a range of issues: Gaza, the region, but above all the negotiations with Iran.'”
Misery Deepens in the West Bank as Israel Provides Few Palestinian Work Permits, AP
“Hanadi Abu Zant is among some 100,000 Palestinians whose work permits were revoked after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack ignited the war in the Gaza Strip. Confined to the occupied territory, where jobs are scarce and wages far lower, they face dwindling and dangerous options as the economic crisis deepens.”
Israeli Strikes Kill Five in Gaza, Health Officials Say, Reuters
“In Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza, an airstrike killed two people who were riding an electric bike, medics said. Later, Israeli drone fire killed a woman in Deir Al-Balah and troops shot dead a man in Khan Younis in the south, they said.”
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility, ProPublica
Mica Rosenberg writes, “Since the start of the Trump administration, the number of children in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention has skyrocketed, increasing sixfold.”
Israel Once Sought Calm in the West Bank. Now It Wants Explosions That Stoke Emigration, Haaretz
Amira Hass writes, “In the past, Israel wanted the Palestinians to maintain a reasonable socioeconomic level, and the aid organizations that have operated in the West Bank and Gaza Strip since the occupation began in 1967 played an important role in achieving this. But now, when Israel is deliberately destroying the Palestinian economy and has made every household a target, it’s only natural that it would want to get rid of organizations that contribute to resilience.”
