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“Anti-BDS legislation is about commercial activities, not about people’s ability to speak,” says the 33-year-old. “People are free to criticize Israel; that is a protected right. But organized boycotting and divestment with the support of state, local or federal government is not acceptable.”
The Jewish Democratic Council of America said California Sen. Kamala Harris “prioritizes the same issues as Jewish voters and will work diligently to defend our values in the White House.”
If nominated, Harris would become the first black woman to be chosen as a running mate for a major-party candidate. She would also be the third woman tapped for the vice-presidential slot, following former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and New York Rep. Geraldine Ferraro.
Jack Rosen, president of the American Jewish Congress, said Elliott Abrams “will have little time to settle in,” citing the upcoming deadline to extend the U.N. arms embargo on Iran.
“The materials fail to adequately discuss anti-Semitism—and characterize American Jews only in the context of how some have secured white privilege, which is misleading and erases the experience of a significant part of our community, including Middle Eastern and North African Jews, as well of other Jews of Color,” said Sarah Levin, executive director of JIMENA.
U.S. President Donald Trump “continues to ignore our international allies and pursue his maximalist approach without any real plan to verifiably prevent a nuclear-armed Iran,” says Aaron Keyak, Jewish outreach director for the presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee’s campaign.
A State Department spokesperson said U.S. Ambassador to Holland Pete Hoekstra “visited the German Military Cemetery in Ysselsteyn to see another of the many historical sites related to the liberation.”
“Herman Cain was a leader in business and politics,” RJC spokesperson Neil Strauss told JNS. “He was a credit to our country and our party.”
It calls out Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus and Ukraine; and Poland for not passing laws dealing with restitution of private property confiscated during the Holocaust, making it “the only European Union member state with significant Holocaust-era property issues not to have done so.”