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Dmitriy Shapiro

Dmitriy Shapiro

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

“We would never have imagined that these things would be said … in classrooms, never mind by radical-left campus groups, but preached by professors in class, in high schools in Manhattan, on the best college campuses … in polite company, and really, really propagated in a way in the halls of Congress as well,” said Elan Carr, former Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism.
Measures include the installation of security cameras, secure doors, barriers and active-shooter training drills, which Congregation Beth Israel’s Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker said helped him in acting against the hostage-taker in Texas.
From intimidation to physical instances, the California college has moved full-force ahead, starting with the creation of a new Advisory Committee on Jewish Life.
Boris Zilberman, director of public policy and strategy at the CUFI Action Fund, said that the way things are in Congress at the moment, it may be risky to pin all hopes on an omnibus spending bill passing because such agreement may not be reachable.
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission official Andrea Lucas said the “EEOC is always monitoring for when there is a rise in a particular type of discrimination, and in May, it noticed what she described as a ‘serious rise’ in anti-Semitic violence.”
With Arab countries now making financial and other agreements with Israel, Turkey finds itself isolated in the region and losing export markets.
“One of the biggest problems of Western foreign policy is they prioritize feeling good over doing good. They feel good about giving money, but they’re actually doing something very bad. They’re literally pouring money that translates into many more years of conflict,” said former Labor Party Knesset member Einat Wilf.
He was “someone who really in his kishkes was supportive of Jewish communal causes, supportive of a strong U.S.-Israel relationship and someone who used the levers of power to push forward that agenda,” said Conference of Presidents CEO William Daroff.