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Jackson Richman

When it comes to the issues, Charleston varies in what it prioritizes outside of what Brandon Fish, director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Charleston, called the “unifying issues that Jews … around the country care about,” including the State of Israel and the democratic process, especially as the primary is on a Saturday.
“Anti-Semitism in the South was alive and well,” says Darryl Hill of the 1960s. Adds Jerry Fishman, “as far as we’ve come, I don’t think we’re as far as we should be in respecting other religions and colors. We’re just not there.”
Following the Democratic debate at the Charleston Gaillard Center, in response to whether or not she would attend, Klobuchar replied “No” to JNS, citing that the conference coincides with Super Tuesday on March 3, when 14 states will hold their primaries.
“I don’t think we need to have ground troops anywhere terrorists can gather because terrorists can gather anywhere in the world. But we do need intelligence capabilities and specialists on the ground,” said former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who served in Afghanistan.
AIPAC said “by engaging in such an odious attack on this mainstream, bipartisan American political event, Senator [Bernie] Sanders is insulting his very own colleagues and the millions of Americans who stand with Israel.”
Heerak Kim, who is running in Virginia’s 8th Congressional District, recently tweeted that the “FBI should investigate US politicians in both Republican and the Democratic party with ‘questionable’ ties with Israel,” among other social-media posts that have been deemed anti-Semitic.
“I’m always concerned when a discussion of who should be the next president of the United States doesn’t include a conversation about rising anti-Semitism or virtually anything about Middle East policy,” said former National Jewish Democratic Council head Aaron Keyak.
Carol Christ pledged to continue to “speak out loudly and clearly in condemnation of anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, anti-blackness, racism, and other hateful ideologies and perspectives that target people based on their identity, origins or beliefs.”
Drawing on his experience in intelligence and counter-terrorism, Mitchell D. Silber aims to better safeguard Jewish institutions, hardening targets and raising awareness of threats to the community in the Greater New York region.
“Clearly, Berkeley is not united against hate,” said student Nathan Bentolila, a senior. “I honestly have very little to say, the Jewish community is beyond disappointed.”
In a statement released by the Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas)—the committee’s ranking member—Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) and Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) called this move by the United Nations “abrupt and inappropriate” and “another anti-Israel stunt that will not further peace in the region.”
Illini Students Supporting Israel board member Aaron Merlin, a junior, told JNS that the vote was wrong and not representative of the overall university community.