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Dmitriy Shapiro

Dmitriy Shapiro

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

“There was a lot of heart here this time that I haven’t heard in a while. I think people are really starting to appreciate what we have here as Jews, compared to where we could be in other countries and stuff,” said Willetta Lee of Virginia.
“The return of the Taliban in Afghanistan after the American withdrawal from that country puts Afghanistan’s Islamists in a leadership role among radical Islamists worldwide, as opposed to Islam’s traditional heartland in the Middle East,” explains former Pakistani Ambassador to the U.S. Husain Haqqani.
The annual conference of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) represented a bulwark against academic elitism and suppression of divergent ideas.
The role will not require Senate confirmation, allowing him to begin serving immediately as acting envoy until the Senate moves on the nomination of Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt.
The funding works like a matching grant, covering costs of equipment but not the labor to install it.
The former Israeli Consul General in New York and current chairman of Yad Vashem acknowledged that when he first came to the United States in 2016, he didn’t see anti-Semitism as the pressing issue it is today, believing that it might have been an “overblown phenomenon” in the United States.
According to Ghaith al-Omari, a former Palestinian negotiator and senior fellow at the Washington Institute, it’s “a game of chicken. It boils down to: Does Israel want to make this into a crisis? The Bennett government has been trying to avoid public disagreements with the United States.”
“I am an equal-opportunity hater of anti-Semitism … if they’re expressing the anti-Semitism, I want to fight it with the same degree of strength and courage and intensity. I don’t care where it comes from—wherever it comes from, it must be fought,” said the historian and professor.
Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Matt McKeon also said in response to a question by Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.): “I believe we still regard Jerusalem as a final-status question. But I want to get you a more precise answer for the record.”
Deborah Lipstadt, the administration’s choice to serve as Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating anti-Semitism, has also yet to be confirmed.
Fadah Jassem, a London-based former television producer and editor, is being criticized for supporting Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and leaving out the flag of Israel in an introductory tweet.
The three-day event in December is expected to draw more than 3,000 Israeli and Jewish Americans to hear from politicians, journalists, academics, organizational leaders, military personnel and celebrities.