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Jackson Richman

“The decision will help ensure that religious communities can choose their own leaders and pass the faith onto the next generation without government interference,” said Howard Slugh, founder and general counsel for the Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty.
The reply? “If the Trump administration wants to provide us with photos from closed-door meetings ... to discuss illegal annexation and unilaterally redraw the map of the West Bank, we’d gladly use those.”
Schools with one or more incidents involving expression challenging the definition of anti-Semitism were more than twice as likely to host acts of Israel-related behavior targeting students for harm and the more such expression, the more Israel-related acts of harassment.
“This wasn’t about changing American police policies, but about coarsening and brutalizing the discourse around Israel and Jews through the exploitation of black suffering,” said Dexter Van Zile, an analyst at CAMERA.
The irony of Al Sharpton, who has a history of hate speech against Jews, calling out media giants for the same thing was not lost on Jewish organizations.
The demonstrations are being organized by groups such as Al-Awda, American Muslims for Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace.
“The United States is watching this closely,” a spokesperson told JNS.
Yehoshua Bedrick, director of policy at EdChoice, told JNS that the decision is “a major victory for religious liberty and for families seeking to provide their children with an education in accordance with their religious tradition and values.”
The Simon Wiesenthal Center and Americans Against Anti-Semitism slammed the outlet for considering someone as divisive as Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, known for anti-Semitic and hate speech.
“Pakistan’s courts have just shown that murderous anti-Semitism is acceptable in mainstream Pakistani law and society,” said CAMERA communications director Jonah Cohen.
After defeating the controversial Steve King in a GOP primary on June 2, state Sen. Randy Feenstra wants to get back to basics and show voters what an effective conservative leader looks like.
“His constituents apparently concluded that he had lost touch with them, and that is, of course, wholly their decision to make,” said Democratic Majority for Israel president Mark Mellman.