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Andrew Bernard

Andrew Bernard is the Washington correspondent for JNS.org.

“The last thing a sovereign democracy under siege needs is a public tongue-lashing from the White House,” the senate minority leader said.
“This is a time to say Jewish lives matter,” Rabbi Asher Lopatin, director of community relations at the Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor, told JNS.
“The seeds of hate are sown long before the freshman year,” congressman Mike Kelly said.
“There is absolutely no daylight between Joe Biden and Israel,” said the U.S. national security advisor. “None. Zero.”
“No one gets to decide for them whether they can or cannot be a proud Jew,” Ted Deutch, the CEO of the American Jewish Committee, told JNS.
“The media were remarkably credulous about this,” David Adesnik, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told JNS. “It’s a pretty stunning admission.”
“We appreciate each candidate’s support for Israel’s right to self-defense and for the safe return of all hostages being held by Hamas,” said Mark Mellman, chair of the Democratic Majority for Israel PAC.
“We need clarity today that America stands with Israel” and is “not confused as to whom we support, Israel or Hamas,” Sen. Ted Cruz told JNS.