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Dmitriy Shapiro

Dmitriy Shapiro

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

In his first address as prime minister to the U.N. General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called polarizations one of two plagues affecting the world at the moment, with the other being the COVID-19 pandemic.
The original Durban declaration was also censured for allowing the presence of overt anti-Semitic and anti-Israel hate, as well as including Palestinians as the only group named as victims of racism.
Nathan Diament, executive director for public policy at the Orthodox Union, was troubled that some Congress members had the “misguided view that a missile-defense system does anything other than defend innocent civilians from attacks launched by hostile terrorist groups.”
“The Durban Declaration is laced with anti-Semitism, and the goal of those who celebrate it is not racial equality but the undermining and eventual destruction of the state of Israel,” stated former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Normalization leads to greater stability, more cooperation, mutual progress—all things the region and the world need very badly right now,” said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
“The more we strengthen the bonds between these countries, the more we will remove a tool from propagandists and agitators who have used [the Israeli-Palestinian] conflict for decades to divert from their shortcomings at home and maintain their grip on power,” said Jared Kushner, chairman and founder of newly established Abraham Accords Peace Institute.
Zev Yaroslavsky at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs said it’s become more of a horse race between candidates Gavin Newsom and Larry Elder, and less about Newsom’s actual job performance these past 18 months as the coronavirus has raged through the state.
Leaders of the Reform movement were quick to condemn the new law in a letter signed on Sept. 2 by multiple organizations, in which they noted the stringency of the new legislation.