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Dmitriy Shapiro

Dmitriy Shapiro

Dmitriy Shapiro is the Washington, D.C., correspondent for JNS.

Richard Green, CEO and co-founder of the Clarion Project, and an Orthodox rabbi, held his talk privately and virtually after some local groups protested his appearance, saying his organization was anti-Muslim.
The president’s pick to serve as part of the White House National Security Council’s Middle East and North Africa portfolio, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates Barbara Leaf, was also approved in a 14-8 vote.
A U.S. State Department official said the secretary of state expects to cover the war in Ukraine, Iran, the Abraham Accords, preserving the prospects for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and building support for the U.N.’s engagement in Western Sahara.
“The endorsement will inevitably—and inequitably—discriminate against, exclude and isolate Israeli scholars by singling out the Israeli academy for boycott. The resolution’s assertion that the boycott ‘will not target individual students or scholars’ is untenable,” said Academic Engagement Network.
The effort comes weeks after a committee meeting on March 8, when Lipstadt’s nomination was blocked by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) after his objections.
“My position remains that the United States must use all diplomatic, informational and economic instruments of national power at our disposal to support Ukraine and deter Russia’s aggression. The purpose and goal must be to help de-escalate this conflict as soon as possible,” Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) said in a news release.
“I feel like it should be required for a member of Congress to go so they can see it, especially the ones on the other side of the issue,” said the 37-year-old Republican representing New York.
“It is a real fight against good and evil. The challenge is so much bigger, and, of course, the world as [the Russian president] wants to change is not the world in which Jews and Israel want to live,” said Natan Sharansky.